Samuel Smith

SMITH, HARNEY, HARSTON

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/23/2004 at 22:30:40

Samuel Smith was born in Orange county, New York, February 2, 1838; died in Madison, Iowa, March 4, 1871. When quite young his parents moved to Pennsylvania, where they lived until he was sixteen years of age, when they moved to Columbia county, Wisconsin. He married in June, 1861, Miss Samantha Harney. They had three children – Willie, Fred and Cassius.
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In 1865, he came to Iowa and settled in Madison, buying land on section 3, which he sold six months later, and bought on section 22. In 1869, he moved to section 16, where he died after an illness of more than two years, leaving a widow and two children to mourn his death. His widow married Amos D. Harston, in 1876. The children lived with her.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 632