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--- Daniel Smith's framed portrait >
--- Abigail Hartley Smith's framed portrait >
Notes/Quotes
...large, hand-drawn, w/original frame [2007-2012, original pictures]
...I was told by my father that his dad met with "Aunt Cindy" Smith, his dad's cousin, at her request and she informed him that she 'needed a good home' for a couple of pictures. W.N. and Fern took the large pictures of Daniel Smith and Abigail Hartley Smith, I am supposing, after "Old Jim" Smith, John N.'s firstborn, died. Grandpa asked Dad if he wanted the pictures and obligingly he took them. This prompted him to want to know more about the man in the picture so Grandpa and Fern obliged, met with "Aunt" Cindy, and then Fern forwarded the information to Dad in 1966. [JDS]
...These came into my possession between 2007 and 2012. [JDS]
--- "Nathanael M. Smith's 'Precious Moments Bible'"---cover, opposite titlepage >
Name, Notes/Quotes, Variant Spelling, Spouse, Child, Marriage
... "Holy Bible, PRECiOUS MOMENTS EDITION, (NKJV)...THOMAS NELSON PUBLISHERS...MY FAMILY HISTORY Nathanael Matthew Smith MY NAME...James Daniel Smith MY FATHER James Ely and Amonda Smith MY FATHER'S PARENTS..." [30NOV2020, original record]
...Ely s/b Eli, Amonda s/b Amanda [JDS]
:::::CORRESPONDENCE
Name, Notes/Quotes, (Residences), [Spouse], [Child], Variant Spelling
--- "__Dec 22 1966...[William N.] (and) Fern [Smith]...Dear Folk (Jim) [and Amanda] (Smith), We found this much of the record of Daniel Smith who is the man you have the__Picture of. There is quite a bit of the history that Cinda Smith did not know about. She is the one on [on lined through] that has the record and she lives in Kirklin. Jim if you want this stand that you made at school [small, half-round, window table w/lower shelf] your dad says for you to come and get it.
Your dad is not feeling very well today. Every body else is on the go. Love [signed]" [continuing on two sheets of paper written on both sides] "__What we found out about the Smith pictures 'Daniel Smith born May 1 1807 in North Carolina while an infant moved ^to^ the state of Ohio with his parents and lived with them until 11 years of age then was "bound" to Joseph Coats until 21 years of age --- moved to Marion county Indiana at the age of 12 years In May 1828 was married to Nellie Harrison Lived with her for five years. She died there were no children by this union Second marriage to Abigal Hartley July 8 1834 10 children were born to this Union -- Five died The five that lived were David Smith Sally Lovell Nancy Gray John N. Smith Daniel Smith (W.N. Smith's father) __Daniel ^Smith^ and Abigal ^Smith^ moved to Adams township Hamilton County in 1835 and lived in this neighborhood until his death April 26 1893 aged 85 years 11 months and 26 days -- Joined M. E. church in Feb 1838 -- lived a Christian life ever since Abigal Smith departed this life April 14 1901 aged 84 years 9 mo and 28 days. She was a member of the M. E. Church and lived a consistent Christain until death. She leaves to mourn their loss three sons two daughters 44 grand-children and 16 great grand-children and many friends who will never forget her Christain life. She was the oldest relative of the writer and I will never forget my visit to see her as she neared the sunny banks of deliverance. She was only waiting for her home in heaven Funeral conducted by Rev Jesse Mills' Taken from clipping in paper [was written along the left margin of this page]...[original material from the second sheet of paper, both front and back, is entered now]__David Smith (Daniel Smith son) no record of Family Sally (Smith) Lovell (Daniel Smith daughter) no record of Family Nancy (Smith) Gray (Daniel Smith daughter) children [that lived to majority] Mary Ann Gray Wesley [Gray] Danny [Gray] Billie [Gray] Sarah [Gray] Flora [Gray] John N Smith (Daniel Smith son) and Amelia Caroline (Mundy) Smith Children 1 -- James Smith 2 -- Samuel Edward Smith 3 -- David H Smith 4 -- William Hiram Smith 5 . Daniel Morton Smith 6 -- John Larken Smith 7 -- Jerry Walter Smith 8 -- Lucinda Florence Smith 9 -- Hervey Lincoln Smith 10 -- Elmer Everet Smith__Daniel Smith (Daniel Smith son) Mary Elizabeth (Billingsley) Smith Children 1. Burgess -- Smith 2 William Nelson Smith 3 Elizabeth
(Smith) Denny 4 George Dewey Smith 5 Forest -- Smith...[Both sides of the page delineating "Old" Daniel's grandchildren have notes written by James Eli and Amanda Smith interspersed among the original material...Ellipses separate each incident of notes. The name in the original letter is given first//the note associated with it follows the double forward slash]__...Nancy (Smith) Gray//married Willian H Gray...Mary Ann Gray//Minnie Daisey Grant Clemnes...Wesley [Gray]//Julie Inman...Daniel (and) Abigal buried at Spicwood Smith...Hillisburg Hawad Keller (and) Jule...William (Smith) taken prisoner andersonville, Prison Civil War Killed on boat Picture at sheridan at a lodge Hall Son lived east of Bakers Corner...James Smith//Noel Doyle Wilburn sons <--- wife Rosa A. Graham Died 7-2-54 Flossie Hawkins Hazel McKinny Sylvia Hensley...Samuel Edward Smith//Stella Rector--Dan Gray...William Hiram Smith//Jule...Daniel Morton Smith//Died 16...John Larken Smith//Died 2...Jerry Walter Smith//Died 2-3...Hervey Lincoln Smith//wife Nettie Son Ralph Elkhart...__...Burgess -- Smith//one daughter "Edith" "No children"...William Nelson Smith//5 Children [that lived to majority]...Elizabeth [space] (Smith) Denny//2 boys 1 girl "I [James Eli Smith] think"...George Dewey Smith//Died Nov 26 or 27, 1965 no childre(n)...Forest -- Smith//no children...Hurvey Lincoln Smith married Nettie Carter Louis H (and) Anna Jane Carter in (May) 19 1920 Hurvey died in 1961 Son Ralph Smith lives at Elkhart five grandsons (and) one grt. (grand) dau." [27DEC2002, original notecard, w/encl.]
...Some notes were written where they would not be associated with a name. It is unclear if the picture in the lodge hall is of the soldier or his son or neither. I have not seen it and can not make an estimation concerning it possibly being wrongly attributed to this family. JDS
...Carats designate Fern's additions. Parentheses are shown as they are in the two sheets of genealogical material, but I have added them to the notecard at the beginning. Brackets enclose comments that I made for clarification. Double underscore begins a page. Dad told me several times that he thought "Aunt" Cindy, who was his father's cousin, had written the newspaper item quoted in the material. "Aunt" and "Uncle" were terms used by my father to denote important elders in his life whether related or not. The exhibit is a notecard with the information written on two sheets of paper, front and back, and no extant envelope. JDS
...Ever since Dad gave me the letter from William N. & Fern Smith dated December 22, 1966, on December 27, 2002 and with my daughter's earlier
request for help in her 4-H project "because you know all the names," I had been researching alongside her for the extra brain and eyes everyone needs who does genealogy. I had heard repeatedly the stories from Dad and his sister, Mary Joan, and her husband, Uncle Bob Burton, who seemingly had come to a standstill on the Joseph Coats questions and were ready to abandon everything to the probability that all the records were destroyed when a tornado wiped out Coatesville, Indiana. I found out by doing genealogy that I am a link in my endless line of impetuous, stubborn Smiths. Dad and I had visited his brother, Jean, on a Friday and among other things brought up the subject of Joseph Coats. Uncle Jean said he didn't know anything more than what was known or believed by our family of Smiths, but Tipton, Indiana, had their sesquicentennial celebration a few years earlier and Jean said they had a "Joseph Coats story." I made arrangements with Uncle Jean to bring my daughter, Meredy, with me on Monday to guide us and we would all go to the library in Tipton to research. Meredy and I showed up and went to the Indiana Room at the library with Uncle Jean and found out posthaste that "way'll they don't have a story but the newspaper" mentioned Coats' name several times. I had been devoting time to the problem and narrowed the field to four Joseph Coats' in Ohio and Indiana and realized immediately that we did not have time to look at the papers or study them on microfilm. I had studied feverishly since getting the letter and then going to the library in Tipton with my daughter and Uncle Jean. This was relatively early in computer genealogy and I don't think Newspapers.com was even thought of by then. I sent Meredy to do research on the computer on the 1900 census and Uncle Jean and I turned to other names in other files. So, we all were getting nowhere fast -- Coats' or Smiths! I brought out the original letter from Uncle Jean's and Dad's father and stepmother which letter I needed to guard with my life. Jean said he had never seen it before. He read it and asked a lady in the Indiana Room if she could help us and her response was she was doing her own research and did not work for the library. Here is where the Smith stubborness shows up. Uncle Jean, after looking things over again, went to the lady again, this time with the letter, and ask her again if she could help us. She did not know Uncle Jean nor me from a man in the moon, but she took the letter and read it and looked at us and said that her husband was related to Joseph Coats and that she had some material at home and that we shouldn't go anywhere because she would be right back. In a few minutes she returned with eight pages of material for us and wanted copies, front and back, of the two pages of the letter. We obliged. She did not know, nor did we, how she would change our view of our ancestors. Oh! And I'm related to her husband on my mother's side of the family. Thank you Mrs. Ava Ogden for helping us. (No, I did not leave Meredythe there). JDS
--- "An open house reception in honor of the 40th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. James Eli Smith...The Smiths are dairy farmers who have lived on Key-Pet Farm in Wells County [Indiana] for 30 years." MKF/JDS
--- The record indeed shows 13 Mar 1942, but they were married 14 Mar 1942. This was not a transcription error, but an error on the minister's part in recording the date. JDS/MKF
:::::INDIANA, MARRIAGES, 1811-1959 >
Name, Notes/Quotes, Birth, Residence, Spouse, Marriage License, Marriage
--- "GROOM: James Eli Smith...DATE OF BIRTH: 31 Mar 1920...PLACE OF BIRTH: Westfield, , Indiana...RESIDENCE: Westfield, , ...FATHER: William N Smith...MOTHER: Sybil Inman BRIDE: Amanda Sumner...DATE OF BIRTH: 27 Jul 1921...PLACE OF BIRTH: Westfield, , Indiana... RESIDENCE: Westfield, , Indiana...FATHER: Green Sumner...MOTHER: Marie Ridge...DATE OF LICENSE: 13 Mar 1942 COUNTY OF LICENSE: Hamilton DATE OF MARRIAGE: 13 Mar 1942 PLACE OF MARRIAGE: , Hamilton, Indiana..."
...The recorded date of marriage is incorrect. It should be 14 Mar 1942. JDS
:::::PRAIRIE FARMER'S DIRECTORY OF HAMILTON COUNTY, INDIANA---p. 67 >
Notes/Quotes
--- "Gerard, Jess...'Model Mill Farm'...Noblesville Sec27...267a Noblesville Milling Co..." [1919]
...This partial entry from this source is included for descriptive purposes. The book was published the year before my father was born. He was given the volume to keep and discovered this entry next to which he proceeded to print a notation by hand as such -- JiM Smith 1948. I believe he rented the Model Mill Farm during the crop years 1949, 1950 and 1951 because we moved to Wells Co., Ind., in February, 1952. JDS
:::::NEWSPAPERS
--- "NOBLESVILLE DAILY LEDGER...NOBLESVILLE, INDIANA...DECEMBER 23, 1953"---s2p3c4 >
Name, Notes/Quotes, Residence, Spouse, Children, Post Office, Variant Spelling
... "BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS SMITH---Born to James E. and Amanda Sumner Smith, at the Wells County Hospital Dec. 19, a son, Joseph Alan. He...is welcomed by two brothers, Steve and Daniel. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Green Sumner, all of the Hortonville community. A great grandmother is Lenora Ridge of Sheridan. Mr. and Mrs. Smith formerly were residents of this county but now live on R. 1, Keystone, Ind." [04DEC2020, newspapers.com]
--- "Noblesville Daily Ledger...NOBLESVILLE, INDIANA...MAY 21, 1955"---p3c7 >
Name, Notes/Quotes, Residence, Variant Spelling, Spouse, Child
... "BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS SMITH---Born at Wells County Hospital, Bluffton, Ind., a son, to Mr. and Mrs. James Smith. The baby was born Thursday, May 19, and has been named Mark Sumner...Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Smith, Route 1, Westfield and Mr. and Mrs. Green Sumner, 902 So. Main St., Sheridan, Ind." [04DEC2020, newspapers.com]
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