Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Nesbitt, Mary Jane 1925
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Payette Enterprise, Payette, Idaho, September 10, 1925
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Sept. 10, 1925

PAYETTE VALLEY PIONEER PASSES

Mrs. J. F Nesbitt, one of the early pioneers of the Payette valley, passed away 
at the ranch home on the Payette river near New Plymouth last Friday evening, 
Sept. 4, at 5:45 p.m. following a short illness of but five days.  The news of 
her sudden death brought sadness to a host of friends of the Nesbitt family, 
and particularly those who have known Mrs. Nesbitt best and have had the 
pleasure of meeting her in her own home where hospitality and the real spirit 
of pioneer friendship seemed to be her greatest pleasure.  The writer is one 
among many others who can testify from personal experience to the kind 
treatment and generous hospitality extended while in the Nesbitt home.  Mrs. 
Nesbitt was kind and good to all deserving people with whom she came in 
contact.  From the early days she acquired the spirit of thrift and good 
management.  She was a helper in the home, devoted to her family, a kind wife 
and loving mother.  She will be keenly missed, not only in her own home, but by 
many others whom she had kindly treated an befriended in time of need. 
Mary Jane Stewart was born Feb. 3, 1857, at Canton, Ill., and when five years 
of age moved with her parents to Humphreys, Mo., where she made her home for 18 
years.  While there she received a common Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Sept. 10, 1925

PAYETTE VALLEY PIONEER PASSES

Mrs. J. F Nesbitt, one of the early pioneers of the Payette valley, passed away 
at the ranch home on the Payette river near New Plymouth last Friday evening, 
Sept. 4, at 5:45 p.m. following a short illness of but five days.  The news of 
her sudden death brought sadness to a host of friends of the Nesbitt family, 
and particularly those who have known Mrs. Nesbitt best and have had the 
pleasure of meeting her in her own home where hospitality and the real spirit 
of pioneer friendship seemed to be her greatest pleasure.  The writer is one 
among many others who can testify from personal experience to the kind 
treatment and generous hospitality extended while in the Nesbitt home.  Mrs. 
Nesbitt was kind and good to all deserving people with whom she came in 
contact.  From the early days she acquired the spirit of thrift and good 
management.  She was a helper in the home, devoted to her family, a kind wife 
and loving mother.  She will be keenly missed, not only in her own home, but by 
many others whom she had kindly treated an befriended in time of need. 
Mary Jane Stewart was born Feb. 3, 1857, at Canton, Ill., and when five years 
of age moved with her parents to Humphreys, Mo., where she made her home for 18 
years.  While there she received a common Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Sept. 10, 1925

PAYETTE VALLEY PIONEER PASSES

Mrs. J. F Nesbitt, one of the early pioneers of the Payette valley, passed away 
at the ranch home on the Payette river near New Plymouth last Friday evening, 
Sept. 4, at 5:45 p.m. following a short illness of but five days.  The news of 
her sudden death brought sadness to a host of friends of the Nesbitt family, 
and particularly those who have known Mrs. Nesbitt best and have had the 
pleasure of meeting her in her own home where hospitality and the real spirit 
of pioneer friendship seemed to be her greatest pleasure.  The writer is one 
among many others who can testify from personal experience to the kind 
treatment and generous hospitality extended while in the Nesbitt home.  Mrs. 
Nesbitt was kind and good to all deserving people with whom she came in 
contact.  From the early days she acquired the spirit of thrift and good 
management.  She was a helper in the home, devoted to her family, a kind wife 
and loving mother.  She will be keenly missed, not only in her own home, but by 
many others whom she had kindly treated an befriended in time of need. 
Mary Jane Stewart was born Feb. 3, 1857, at Canton, Ill., and when five years 
of age moved with her parents to Humphreys, Mo., where she made her home for 18 
years.  While there she received a common school and normal training and for 
four years followed teaching.  
She came to Idaho in 1880, staging from Kelton, Utah, to Falks Store, where she 
made her home with an uncle, William Stewart.  She continued teaching and 
taught for a term of 14 months in Jerusalem, near Horseshoe Bend, and the 
following year one term at Emmett.  
On August 20, 1882, she was united in marriage to John Franklin Nesbitt who at 
the time owned the present Nesbitt ranch near New Plymouth and where they have 
since made their home except for a short time they resided in Payette.  To this 
union were born seven children:  George F. and Milton S. of New Plymouth; Oscar 
who died in infancy; Elmer H. of Gross; Iva M. and Clarence S. of New 
Plymouth.  besides the above left to mourn their loss are a husband, J. F. 
Nesbitt, a sister, Mrs. Lizzie Beyers, of Deeth, Neb., and a brother, W. S. 
Stewart, of New Plymouth.
Funeral services were held at the Episcopal church in Payette Monday conducted 
by Rev. Thos. Ashworth, where a large crowd gathered to pay their last tribute 
of respect, and where many beautiful floral offerings spoke in terms of highest 
regard for the departed one.  The Rebekah lodge, of which the deceased was a 
member, took charge of the services at the grave in Riverside cemetery.  

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