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Note: {geni:about_me} Research of Susan Kimes Burgess History of Montcalm County, Michigan its people, industries and institutions…with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families; by John W. Dasef, Indianapolis : B. F. Bowen, 1916, p395-397 HERMAN W. SMITH
". . . Bryron Smith was about six years of age when his parents moved to this county and he grew to manhood on the paternal farm and followed farming all through his life. On March 31, 1874, he married Colista Lee, who was born in Canada, July 24, 1856, daughter of Peter and Rebecca (Shaver) Lee, who drove through with their family in a covered wagon to this county in 1865 and settled in Douglass township, about a mile and a half east of Entrican To Byron and Colista (Lee) Smith two children were born, their only son, Herman W., having a younger sister, Gertrude, born in 1884, who was graduated from the Michigan State Normal at Mt. Pleasant and was for years one of Montcalm county's well-known teachers. She married W. V. Horn, who is employed in her brother's store at Entrican, and has one child, a daughter, Cecelia. Byron Smith was for years one of the best-known farmers in Douglass township, his well-kept place, "Rose Lawn Farm," about one and one-half miles west from Entrican, being long regarded as one of the model farms of the neighborhood. Mr. Smith was a Republican, taking a good citizen's part in local political affairs, but was never an aspirant for office, though he did serve the public very acceptably for a time as highway commissioner. He and his wife were members of the Methodist church and at the time of his death in 1899 he had been serving for some years as one of the stewards of the church. In 1910 his widow married, secondly, Oscar Johnson, who was born in Kent county, this state, and is now living in Douglass township
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