Here is what I have in my story from Grandma Mort; this is what she told me:
"Sarah Elizabeth Cotton, born in Eddyville, Iowa, December 20, 1868, met and married "a lonesome bachelor" by the name of Owen Fowler Ide, born May 7, 1864, in Fairview, Ohio. His father, a Baptist minister, the Reverend Ebenezer Ide, 70, died when Owen was seven months old. His mother, Emiline R. S. Ide, died at age 35 on January 28, 1868. Both died at the residence of Owen Fowler in Fairview, Guernsey County, Ohio. Left an orphan by age three, Owen was brought by his grandmother to Exira, Iowa, to some Fowler relatives who evidently did not wish to keep him. A childless couple, Oliver and Emily Jane (Beers) Smith, took him in. Emily Jane, born 1832, was a teacher from New York, and it was her desire that Owen should be educated. He went to high school in Exira from the Smith farm near Brayton. He also attended Ames (Iowa State University) for part of a year."
The farm where the Smith's lived was the farm that the Owen and Sarah Ide, after their marriage, rented and later purchased from the Smiths and where Grandma Mort grew up. Grandma referred to them as "Grandpa and Grandma Smith." Owen lived on that farm for 65 years. The Smith grandparents moved later to California but would come back every year and spend time at the farm. Grandma said her parents always had to move out of their bedroom so the Smiths could have it.
Love, Aunt Mary
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