Emma Smart Badger
1845-Aug. 19, 1936
Niles Daily Star, Thursday, August 20, 1936, page 1, col. 8, microfilm Niles District Library
MRS. E.S. BADGER DIES AT AGE OF 91
Was Oldest Member of Trinity Episcopal Parish; Married here in 1880.
Mrs. E. S. Badger, 91, one of the oldest residents of Niles and the oldest member of Trinity Episcopal parish, died at 5:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at her home 215 ½ East Main Street.
Mrs. Badger is the last member of the Jacob Smart Family, which came to Niles from Newmarket, NH in the middle of the last century. The Smart family was widely known in the early days here. Their home was located on the site of the Niles Lumber company at 314 North Front Street.
She was married in 1880 to Edward S. Badger in Niles, and the couple lived here until 1917. In that year, with their family, they started on a trip through the west and south, living in various places and spending several years in Denver. They returned to Niles in 1931.
One son, Edward s. Badger, survives, also a stepdaughter, Mrs. Francis W. Kelsey, Ann Arbor, who arrived in Niles today. Mrs. Kelsey is the widow of the former head of the department of ancient languages at the University of Michigan.
Funeral services will be at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon in the Price and Kiger Funeral Home. The Rev. Lawrence Ferguson, rector of St. James Episcopal church, South Bend, will officiate.