Mina Jane Smith

1876 - 1950  (73 years)

• Name	Mina Jane Smith
  Born	31 Dec 1876	Red Buttes, Wyoming Territor
  Gender	Female
  Died	28 Jan 1950	Inman, Holt Co., Nebraska
  Buried	Inman Cem., Inman, Holt Co., Nebraska
  Person ID	I28887	Munro
  Last Modified	27 May 2001

  
  

  Father	Robert Smith,   b. 12 Jul 1846, , , Nova Scotia, Canada ,   d. 11 Mar 1934, Langley, British Columbia, Canada  (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Isabelle Munro,   b. 17 Mar 1851, Scotsburn, Pictou Co., Nova Scotia, Canada ,   d. 2 Dec 1938, Langley, British Columbia, Canada  (Age 87 years)
  Married	20 May 1873	Schuyler, Colfax Co., Nebraska
  Family ID	F9933	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	George Albert Coventry,   b. 20 Feb 1871, Schuyler, Colfax Co., Nebraska ,   d. 18 Jul 1947, Inman, Holt Co., Nebraska  (Age 76 years)
  Married	23 Dec 1896	Olds, Alberta, Canada
  Children	1. Carrie Belle Coventry,   b. 14 Mar 1898, Olds, Alberta, Canada ,   d. 27 Jul 1966, O'neill, Holt Co., Nebraska  (Age 68 years)   2. Louise Day Coventry,   b. 17 Mar 1900, Olds, Alberta, Canada ,   d. 6 Jan 1971, Tipton, Cole Co., Missouri  (Age 70 years)   3. Kenneth Albert Coventry,   b. 28 Nov 1903, Olds, Alberta, Canada ,   d. 22 Dec 1991, Atkinson, Holt Co., Nebraska, USA  (Age 88 years) + 4. James Robert Coventry,   b. 3 Jun 1906, Inman, Holt Co., Nebraska ,   d. 25 Mar 1986, Mesa Lutheran Ho, Mesa, Maricopa Co., Arizona  (Age 79 years)   5. Jessie Elaine Coventry,   b. 22 Feb 1912, Inman, Holt Co., Nebraska ,   d. 2 Oct 1953, Inman, Holt Co., Nebraska  (Age 41 years)
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2009
  Family ID	F9934	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Mina Jane was born in 1876 in the small railroad town of Red Buttes in the Wyoming Territory. Her parents had moved there from Nebraska, apparently because her father had a job with the railroad. The family had returned to Schuyler, Nebraska by the time their next child was born in 1880. Mina attended school in the Schuyler area, probably a country school near the small town of Rogers, Nebraska. The family homesteaded a farm two miles east of the town of Olds. Mina had a job in town. When she was seventeen, the family moved to Olds, Alberta, Canada. By this time, she had attracted the attention of George Coventry, who also lived in the Schuyler area and also moved to Olds, Canada. George was the son of James and Louisa Caroline (Day) Coventry. George and Mina married in 1896 at her parents home in Olds. They were married by the Rev. Peter Naismith. The couple lived near Olds until 1904 when they decided to return to Nebraska. By then they were the parents of three children. They settled in the cranch country five miles south of Inman, Nebraska where George's father had purchased land. They made their home with him. Mina's days were busy ones with a large family to care for and all of the duties that a wife needed to accomplish without all of the conveniences that became the norm in later decades. She grew many beautiful flowers, especially moss rose and geraniums. One of her hobbies was making hooked rugs and chair seats. She was also gifted in the art of knitting. Each grandchild was supplied with warm, wool mittens for the cold Nebraska weather. Her seventeen grandchildren were always welcome to have tea at Grandma Coventry's and it was usually accompanied by her delicious sugar cookies, angel food cake, or a piece of luscious pie. Her afternoon womens clubs were an important part of her life and she received her twenty five year Jewel for active membership in the Rebekah Lodge. She hosted many Sunday dinners for all of the family in Inman. On 2 Dec 1938 she was doing this usual task and it was not until all were getting ready to leave for their respective homes did she tell them that she had word that morning that her mother, Isabelle Smith, had passed away in British Columbia, Canada. this was typical of her, she did not want to spoil their day. Mina died in 1950 at her home after a two-week illness. Her family was with her. Funeral services were conducted from the home by the Rev. Roy W. Wingate. The Arbutus Rebeckah Lodge #317 conducted memborial rites, and she was buryid in the Inman cemetery near the grave of her husband, George. George owned a forty-acre farm which he worked with his two sons. He bottled and delivered milk and also ran an insurance company. References: (1) Clan Munro files - Mueller, Joan Lee - pedigree chart of Joan Lee Coventry dated 3 Aug 1996 (2) Clan Munro files - Mueller, Joan Lee - "James Robert Coventry 1906-1986" (3) Clan Munro files - Mueller, Joan Lee - family group record of Robert Smith dated 4 Aug 1996 (4) Clan Munro files - Mueller, Joan Lee - family group record of George Albert Coventry dated 8 Aug 1996 (5) Clan Munro files - Mueller, Joan Lee - "Mina Jane Smith"