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Note: Family information taken from:
Cope, Gilbert,
Genealogy of the Smedley family descended from George and Sarah Smedley, settlers in Chester Co., Penna. : with brief notices of other families of the name, and abstracts of early English wills
Lancaster, Pa.: Wickersham Printing Co., 1901, 1102 pgs.
Thomas L Smith (Samuel, Phebe, Phebe, George, Thomas, George Smedley)
born Clearfield, PA 8-19-1852, M; Scott twsp., Henry Co, IA, 10-17-1877. Sarah Jane VanSyoc, b. Greene Co., PA 8-12-1854, dau. of Abraham Vansyoc and Mary Louisa Clements of Griswald, Cass Co., IA.
He farmed in Henry Co., till 1884: moved to Winfield and followed butchering until 1888: went into a general store and moved to Woolson, IND in 1890, engaged with the H L Spencer wholesale house of Oskaloosa but returned to butchering at Winfield in 1892. In 1898, he was elected Recorder of Henry Co and moved to Mt Pleasant: was probably elected in 1900. His wife Sarah is a Christian Scientist, but he is not a member of any church.
Issue:
Bertha Elnora, 10-26-1878 (teacher)
Laura Bell, 8-20-1880 (stenographer for father)
Ryland, 3-9-1883 (printer)
1880 Henry, Scott D-89, IA
Thos. Smith, age 27, PA
Sarah, age 25, PA
Bertha, age 1, IA
Ida Vansyoc, sister in law, age 16, IA
1895 Iowa census index, Henry Co., Winfield, IA
Thomas L Smith, age 42, PA
Sarah P, age 40, PA
Bertha E, age 16, IA
Lanra B, age 14, IA
Glen R, age 11, IA
Viola Smith, age 20, IA
1900 Henry, Mt Pleasant D-31, IA
Thos Smith, age 47, 8-1852, PA, married 23 yrs, county recorder
Jane, age 45, 8-1854, PA, 3 children, 3 living
Bertha, age 21, 10-1878, IA
Laura B, age 19, 8-1880, IA
Glenn R, age 17, 3-1883, IA
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