Thomas J. Smith

SMITH , ADAMS , LONG

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 3/9/2002 at 22:25:53

Smith, Thomas J., farmer, Section 28 (Auburn township); PO Eden; born in Windsor Co., VT in 1819. Married Susan Adams in 1849; she died in 1856; had six children ---- Cordelia, Oliver, Lucius, Electa, William and Howard. Came west in 1855, and settled in Michigan, where he married Debora Long in 1859; she was born in Genesee Co., NY, in 1828; removed to this county in 1866, and settled in Waucoma, remaining two years, when he engaged in mercantile business in that village about five years, when he sold out and for one year engaged in buying and shipping produce, when he purchased his present estate; has a farm of 165 acres, valued at $35 per acre.

Page 757, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"