SMITH, William

SMITH, BEAL, HILL

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 10:17:17

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

WILLIAM SMITH, farmer. Sec. 4; P.O. De Witt; owns 200 acres; was born in March, 1813, in Belmont Co., Ohio; his father died in Morgan Co., Ohio, where his mother still lives. He married, in 1834, Sarah Beal she died in 1848; he again married Mary Hill in 1849; has five children by first marriage, and the same number by second marriage; has lost three children. Mr. Smith came to Clinton Co, in 1863; his brother, John N., who came with him, died in 1870. Mr. Smith located on his present farm in 1870.