Part I - Hezekiah Lamb and Hannah Small
Family Group "N"

Hannah Naomi Lamb
and
Henry Bowen Small

Hannah Naomi Lamb, daughter of Hezekiah Lamb and Hannah Small, was born 11 December 1859, Dallas County, Iowa. She was married 14 February 1882, in Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska, to Henry Bowen Small, who was born 28 September 1856, in Jonesboro, Grant County, Indiana, son of Reuben Small and Melissa Davis. (See: Small Family, Part IV). They were first cousins. H. Bowen Small, was an attorney as well as a farmer.

In 1895, Henry took his family to the Oklahoma Territories in a horse and buggy to join the crowd when the Strip was opened up. Henry and a Mr. Northrup, started a town, which they called Cleo Springs, built around a square. The family spent the summer camped by a spring near a river that was a branch of the Cimarron. Years later, a niece and her husband bought the property where the family had camped. They built a beautiful home there. It was the scene of a famous Indian battle.

Henry and Omie joined the Seventh Day Adventist Church in the summer of 1904. Henry died 31 December 1943, and Omie died 3 May 1956, at the age of 97. Both died in Anthony, Kansas, and are buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, in Anthony.

Naomi gave birth to 18 children, including 5 sets of twins. Stanley was a twin, but I have no knowledge of which the others were. For a woman who loved children so much, she had very few grandchildren, or great grandchildren.

Children:

1. Zena Hannah Small, born 19 July 1883, O�Dell, Gage County, Nebraska. She was married on 19 August 1904, Anthony, Kansas to William David Edmonson, born 21 August 1878, Winchester, Illinois, son of Rachel Edmonson. William died 13 December 1949, Stafford, Kansas; Zena died 27 April 1972, Anthony, Kansas. Both are buried in Forrest Park Cemetery, Anthony, Kansas
1. Grandchildren:
1. Zelma Maurine (Toots) Edmonson, born 27 March 1907; died 6 July 1992; fine painter; married 1 June 1931, Harry H. Wacker, oil field pumper; No children


2. Naomi Leto Small, born 24 October 1884, Anthony, Kansas; died June 1943, Loma Linda, California; married Clyde C. Morlan/Marland. No children


3. Zelma Melissa Small, born 1 December 1885, Anthony, Kansas


4. Amy Rebecca Small, born 25 January 1887; married Alfred Crag; divorced. No children. In 1990, Living in nursing home in Anthony, Kansas


5. Ada Wilson Small, born 2 October 1888, Anthony, Kansas; married 8 March 1910, Richard M. Washbon. She died 25 July 1977, Ponca City, Oklahoma; buried Rest Haven Memorial Park.
1. Grandchildren:
1. Lucerne Lee Washbon, married 24 October 1938, James Everett Roberts, died 1 January 1973, body cremated at Tonkawa, Oklahoma, No children


6. Carrie Bowen Small, born 10 February 1890, Anthony, Kansas; died 17 October 1890, Anthony, Kansas; buried Spring Grove Cemetery


7. Minnie Small, born, died July 1893, buried Spring Grove Cemetery


8. Reuben Stanley Small, (twin) born 16 March 1894, Anthony, Kansas


9. Hattie Small, died in infancy, buried Spring Grove Cemetery


10. Harriet Estelle Small, born 17 November 1896, Anthony, Kansas

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Zelma Melissa Small, daughter of Hannah Naomi Lamb and Henry Bowen Small, was born 1 December 1885, in Anthony, Kansas.

She grew up there in a family of five sisters and one brother. She attended the Anthony High School from which she graduated in 1904.

Late one summer afternoon after Zelma Melissa had graduated from High School, she and her sister Amy were sitting outside on their front porch. Suddenly about two blocks away they saw a tent going up. Excitedly they said, �Oh, maybe a circus is coming to town.� A couple of evenings later they heard singing � a beautiful male voice. Her parents became interested, so they all decided to go to the meetings. As a result, her parents both accepted the Adventist message.

She was graduated in 1908, from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska.

She made many, many friends there who remained her friends down through the years. Among them were many well known missionaries.. While still a student at Union, she along with others used to go down to Dunbar, Nebraska, 30 miles east of Lincoln where they visited in the old Dunbar home. She used to hear them talk about Ralph Smith, their nephew and Mary Dunbar Smith's son. After graduation she taught Church School for one year in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

About this time her older sister, Naomi, who had just graduated from nurses training in Glendale was getting married. She asked Zelma to come to California to be a bridesmaid. Zelma took the train � on the way they were snowbound for four days and four nights. This was on the line between Kansas and Nebraska, almost to Colorado. This proved to be an unforgettable experience � one she never forgot. The passengers all had a marvelous time.

Her first sight of California was as the train, after crossing the Donner Pass, dropped down into the green orchards of the valleys in California. The train stopped in San Francisco to let the passengers off for their first glimpse of the ocean.

Her sister, Naomi, persuaded Zelma to take the nurses course � which she did. The original old Glendale Sanitarium building was where she took her nurses training. Sometimes, on weekends, the nursing students would take the train out to Loma Linda. The medical students like to go down to the station to welcome the visitors. This time, Ralph Merle Smith was among them. When he saw Zelma, he said to himself, �That's the girl I'm going to marry!� He had heard about her, too, but they had never met.

She was married 1 August 1914, in Glendale, California, to Ralph Merle Smith, M. D, who was born 17 January 1887, in Blunt, South Dakota, son of Merle D. Smith and Mary Dunbar.

They lived in Los Angles while Ralph finished the last two years of medicine at the original clinic on Boyle Avenue, returning to Loma Linda for his graduation in 1916 (The second class of medicine) of the College of Medical Evangelists.

World War I was raging and Ralph accepted an officers commission in The United States Army Medical Corps. At the close of the war, Zelma went to Mexico City with her husband and two children. They lived there for one year where Dr. Smith practiced as a self-supporting missionary. He was the first American doctor to receive a license to practice in Mexico. Zelma, being a nurse, used to help him � often giving anesthetics for him � including one time when he performed brain surgery on a man in his home. The man, on awakening, asked him, �why did you pray before the surgery?� Unknown to Dr. Smith, the man's family had a gun and planned to kill him if the man died and Dr. Smith said if had known a gun was in his back, the man probably would have died!

On their return to the States, Dr. Smith practiced for a number of years on the border of Calexico and Mexicali. Again, Zelma continued to help him, often going with him to homes to deliver babies.

In 1923, Zelma, along with her family, moved to Riverside where her husband practiced for many years. At first they attended the original little white Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Twelfth Street. Soon they helped build the church on the corner of Tenth and Locust Streets and later a second church at the same location. When finally the new church was completed at its present location on Jurupa Avenue, Zelma was able to attend for a few times. On her Ninety-fourth birthday she attended in her wheel chair and the entire congregation of a thousand people sang Happy Birthday to her!

Her three children attended Claflin Memorial Church School on Beechwood. Later three of her grandchildren attended the same school. Now she has a great grandson, Andy Walcker, attending the present church school on Jurupa.

Zelma moved, with her husband, in 1934 to Glendale for three years where her husband was Chief Surgeon at the Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital. They returned to Riverside, but again in 1943 moved back to Glendale where he was again surgeon at the same hospital. They were living there when Ralph died on November 28, 1944. He is buried at Riverside, California.

Zelma then moved back to her old home in Riverside where she continued to live for the next thirty-seven years.

Zelma was an excellent student. She was proficient in English and languages. She loved Spanish � she used to say she would rather conjugate verbs and translate than to eat. While living in Mexico City the people there were charmed with her pure Castillian Spanish. Her grandchildren and many of their friends well remember the tutoring and help she so freely gave to them in English, grammer, and Spanish. She also wrote fluent poetry and in her earlier years was much in demand to write for different occasions.

In her younger years she was very active in church work, leading out for many years in the children's divisions. She was noted for the many clever devices she made for goal-raising for missions.

She was a good cook and a gracious hostess. Her home was always open to everyone. Many of her children's friends considered her as their second mother.

In later years many of her old college friends retired and moved to Southern California. They all spent many happy hours together. She lived for seven years with her daughter, Jean and son-in-law, Dr. Elmer Hankins, before having to be hospitalized. If it had not been for the tender loving care of her son-in-law, who refused to let her go, she would have gone a long time ago. She had a tremendous desire to live. She was the only grandparent the entire Hankins family has had for many years. They all loved her dearly and called her �Gram�. The same is true of her son Merle and his family.

She was a charter member of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Riverside County Medical Society and also a past President. She was a charter member of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Loma Linda University School of Medicine � then known as the College of Medical Evangelists. For many years she was a member of the Riverside Woman's Club and also the Charity Tree.

Zelma died at 4:40 on Wednesday morning, April 8, 1981, at the age of Ninety-five years, four months and eight days.

She left to mourn: her sister, Amy R Craig of Anthony, Kansas; two living children � a daughter, Jean Dunbar Hankins of Riverside and a son, Ralph Merle Smith, Jr. of Riverside. Another son, Merritt William Smith, M.D. Died in 1969. Also surviving are four grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Children:

1. Jean Dunbar Smith, born 2 October 1916, Los Angeles, California


2. Merritt William Smith M.D., born 21 October 1917, Glendale, California


3. Ralph Merle Smith, Jr. born 19 August 1922, Los Angeles, California

Reuben Stanley Small, son of Hannah Naomi Lamb and Henry Bowen Small, was born 16 March 1894, in Anthony, Harper County, Kansas.

He was married/1 to Gladys Love, born possibly in Osceola, Arkansas. They were divorced.

He was married/2 on 21 May 1925, in Osborne, Kansas, to Nellie June Harter, who was born 13 October 1894, in St. John, Stafford County, Kansas, daughter of Jacob Harter and Mary C. Snowbarger.

Stanley was a bandmaster and carpenter, and died 25 April 1968, in Hutchinson, Kansas, and was buried at Memorial Park Cemetery. June was a grade and high school teacher. She made her home with her son in Arkansas, and died 6 February 1987, at a nursing home in Searcy, Arkansas, buried in Memorial Park.

Children:

1. Frances Estelle Small, born 13 August 1917, Anthony, Kansas


2. Janet Love Small, born 28 December 1918, Anthony, Kansas

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3. Howard Bernell Small, born 21 July 1931, in Pratt, Kansas

Harriet Estelle Small, daughter of Hannah Naomi Lamb and Henry Bowen Small, was born 17 November 1896, in Anthony, Kansas. She was married 17 March 1918, in Wichita, Kansas, to Albert Louis Christman, who was born 29 December 1896, in Kankakee, Illinois, son of Henry Louis Christman and Mary L. Scheppler.

Albert served in the U. S. Army, was a vice president and general manager of a flourmill. Harriet died 28 April 1973; Albert died 23 September 1976, both in St. Louis, Missouri, and buried at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Children:

1. Betty Jane Christman, born 15 September 1920, Anthony, Kansas


2. Richard Darrell Christman, born 2 November 1922, Los Angeles; Army Air Force; salesman; married Dorothy Thomason, born 21 November 1919, Memphis, Tennessee, daughter of Charles E. Thomason and Mildred Spencer

Jean Dunbar Smith, daughter of Zelma Melissa Small and Dr. Ralph Merle Smith, was born 2 October 1916. She was married 1 August 1935, in Glendale, California, to Elmer Albertus Hankins, Jr. (M. D.), who was born 18 October 1911, in Santa Rosa, California, son of Elmer Albertus Hankins and Colorado Pearl Davis.

Children:

1. Elmer Albertus Hankins, III, M. D, born 30 December 1938, Los Angeles; married June 1962, in Glendale, California, to Eunice Geli, daughter of Pedro Geli.


2. Joan Kathleen Hankins, born 14 April 1941, Los Angeles; married 11 June 1967, Loma Linda, California, to Helmer E. Swenson, M. D, s/o Helmer E. Swenson and Clara Carter.


3. Christine Louise Hankins, born 28 December 1946; married 18 February 1968, in Loma Linda, California, to Alonzo Ray Walcker, son of J. J. Walcker and Ottilia Bietz.

Merritt William Smith, son of Zelma Melissa Small and Dr. Ralph Merle Smith, was born 21 October 1917, in Glendale, California. He was married/1 to Margo __.

He was married/2 31 October 1965, in San Diego, California, to Renate Davis, who was born in Germany. Merritt was a physician, surgeon, and served in the U. S. Army during WW/2.

He died 1 May 1969, in Grandada Hills, California, buried at Riverside, California.

Children:

1. Billy Smith, born 1 December 1969, in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

Ralph Merle Smith, Jr, son of Zelma Melissa Small and Dr. Ralph Merle Smith, was born 19 August 1922 in Los Angeles. He was married 13 September 1942, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Charlotte Lavonne Wolfe, who was born 17 May 1923 in Wahoo, Nebraska, daughter of Clifford O. Wolfe and Nellie Paser. Ralph served as a sergeant in the Air Force during WW/2, and is employed as an Internal Revenue Agent.

Children:

1. Sheryl Renne� Smith, born 1 June 1950, in Santa Monica, California; married 25 August 19__, Redlands, California, to George Ely, Jr., s/o George Ely

Frances Estelle Small, daughter of Reuben Stanley Small and Gladys Love, was born 13 August 1917, in Anthony, Harper County, Kansas. She was married to Dallas L. Russell, who was born 13 December 1912, in Nevada County, Arkansas, and worked in Petroleum Exploration. They were divorced in 1954. Russell died 7 March 1965, of a gunshot wound. Francis died 10 April 1970, in McAllen, Texas, buried Roselawn Cemetery.

Children:

1. Leon Guy Russell, born 25 October 1937, San Antonio, Texas


2. Carolyn Russell, born 24 February 1941, Houston


3. Kenneth Allen Russell, born 16 April 1949, McAllen Texas; In 1978, he was in the Air Force, in Houston, Texas

Janet Love Small, daughter of Reuben Stanley Small and Gladys Love, was born 28 December 1918, in Anthony, Kansas, married Arthur Benson, died in Mountain View, California.

Children:

1. Richard Arthur Benson, born 17 April 1942, California; married Joyce ____


2. Darrell Carl Benson, born 19 June 1947; married 6 September 1969, to Laurie Flett

Howard Bernell Small, son of Reuben Stanley Small and Nellie June Harter, was born 21 July 1931, in Pratt, Kansas. He was married 10 June 1951, in Hutchinson, Kansas, to Janice Janet Clark, who was born 6 May 1933, in Dighton, Kansas, daughter of Winston Clark and Doris Kleweno. Winston Clark was the son of Oran Clark and Nettie Beham, of Indiana. See Clark Family

Howard joined the National Guard in 1948 and served until 1963. There were two National Guard units in Hutchinson at that time. During his active training in the summer of 1950, the other unit was activated to go to Korea. The expectation was that Howard's unit would also be called up, but it never was. During his years as a member of the National Guard, he was the one who played "Taps" at military funerals in the area. He was a Master Sergeant when he resigned in 1963.

Howard & Janet lived in Dodge City Kansas where worked for the Santa Fe Railroad until 1961 when he became the terminal manager for Graves Truck Line.1 Howard, Janet and family moved to Hays, Kansas in 1963 when Howard was promoted to terminal manager there by Graves Truck Line.1 In January 1975 moved to Greers Ferry Lake in central Arkansas, where they had recently purchased the Devil's Fork Resort. They operated the resort until 1988, when they sold the resort and retired.

Howard Small died on 4 February 2001 at home, Fairfield Bay, Van Buren County, Arkansas, at age 69. He was buried on 7 February 2001 at in the Woodland Memorial Park, located in outside Fairfield Bay on Highway 16.

Children:

1. Dana Lynn Small, born 17 August 1952, Dodge City, Kansas


2. Steven Elliot Small, born 20 May 1954, Dodge City, Kansas

Betty Jane Christman, daughter of Harriette Estelle Small and Albert Louis Christman, was born 15 September 1920, in Anthony, Kansas.

She was married 28 September 1940, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Andrew Samuel Wood, who was born 25 October 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri, son of Henry (Harry) Thomas Wood and Ida Mae Swienhart.

Andrew was a ceramic tile contractor. He died 31 August 1975, in St. Louis. Betty Jane is an administrative assistant, personnel department.

Children:

1. Andrew Samuel Wood, Jr, born 31 August 1942, St. Louis, Missouri�


2. William Darrell Wood, born 29 November 1945, St. Louis, Missouri; Veteran of US Navy; associate manager of Famous Barr; married 25 August 1973, in Evergreen, Colorado, to Maureen Anne Purcell, a receptionist, who was born 20 September 1948, in St. Louis, Missouri, daughter of John Joseph Purcell and Eileen McShane

Leon Guy Russell, son of Frances Estelle Small and Dallas L. Russell, was born 25 October 1937, in San Antonio, Texas. He was a US Army Sergeant, from 7 March 1956 to 1959, and was recalled and served from October 1961 to January 1962 He was married 12 May 1961, in McAllen, Texas, to Nancy Carol Schrank, who was born 25 April 1942, in San Antonio. He was a surveyor, and died 22 June 1988, in Dallas, Texas.

Children:

1. Michele Leigh (Shelley) Russell, born 21 December 1964, Dallas, Texas; married 29 December 1984, Garland, Texas, to Todd _____.


2. Jon Kenneth Russell, born 15 January 1967, Dallas, Texas

Carolyn Russell, daughter of Frances Estelle Small and Dallas L. Russell, was born 28 February 1941, in Houston, Texas. She was married to Wesley Dean Taylor. In 1990, she is living in Ada, Oklahoma.

Children:

1. Steven Wayne Taylor, married 27 December 1977, Wheatridge, Colorado, to Jenny Louise Welsch


2. Russell Taylor


3. Robert Taylor


4. Brenda Taylor

Dana Lynn Small, daughter of Howard Bernell Small and Janice Janet Small, was born 17 August 1952, in Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas. She was married/1 30 May 1971, in Hays, Ellis County, Kansas, to Larry Prout, and divorced.

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She was married/2 27 April 1979, in Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, to Henry Lightfoot Nunn. In 1990 they were at 2830 B Road, Grand Junction, Colorado. She is a reporter for the Daily Sentinel.

Children:

1. Mathew Henry Nunn, born 12 April 1982, Grand Junction, Colorado

Steven Elliott Small, son of Howard Bernell Small and Janice Janet Clark, was born 20 May 1954, in Dodge City, Kansas. He was married 7 August 1982, in Wannaska, Minnesota, to Leann McFarlane. He is Sales Manager for Galloway Motors in Tucson, Arizona. (1990)

Children:

1. Anthony Howell Small, born 20 September 1988, Tuscon, Arizona

Andrew Samuel Wood, Jr, son of Betty Jane Christman and Andrew Samuel Wood, was born 31 August 1942, in St. Louis, Missouri. He served in the U. S. Army, and is a ceramic tile contractor.

He was married 24 June 1972, in St. Louis, to Evalena Hardy, who was born 5 May 1940, in Leonard, Missouri, daughter of Joseph Otto Hardy and Josephine Maurine Claggett.

Children:

1. Angela Jane Wood, born 8 November 1975, St. Louis, Missouri

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