Ira and Olive lived in Wakarusa where Ira taught school and Olive was the first telephone operator in Wakarusa. In later years they moved to Elkhart where Ira owned rental properties and was active in the Democratic Party and became State Rertative. Their two sons died at birth.
The above is from a short history of the Smeltzer family found in the library in Wakarusa, Indiana in the fall of 1997.
The Back Rhodes of Our Genealogy
1883 - 1969 (86 years)
