Smith, I. S. (Scott)

SMITH, JOHNSON, CRAMER, CASTLEMAN, HASSELMAN, PHILIPS, SANDERSON, CALLISON, HILL, STANLEY

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Smith, I. S. (Scott)

I. S. Smith, or Scott Smith, as he is familiarly and universally called and known, was the seventh child of a family of ten children born to Jesse and Elizabeth M. (Johnson) Smith. The father was born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, on December 27, 1832, and was the son of John B. and Sarah Smith. In 1862 he married Elizabeth M. Johnson, who was the daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Cramer) Johnson. She was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1840. After their marriage, about three years, Jesse Smith removed with his family from Pennsylvania to Iowa, and settled first in Scott County, on a farm. Five years later the family moved to Jasper County and purchased eighty acres of land in Buena Vista Township; later other lands were added to this and at the present time Mr. Smith's holdings consist of two hundred and eighty acres upon which the son, Scott, the subject of this review, resides, the father having retired and moved to Newton in 1904, buying property there. Here Mr. Smith died, January 11, 1911.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Smith are as follows: John B., born 1863, died in 1872; Joseph J., born in 1864, married Grace Young, lives in California; William Richard, born 1866, died in 1878; Edward B., born 1868, married Charlotte Castleman, lives on what was formerly a part of the old Smith homestead, and adjoining, in Buena Vista Township; James A., born 1871, died 1878, of diphtheria; Frank, born 1873, died in infancy; Scott, of this sketch, born 1874; Alice May, born 1876, married Garrett Hasselman, lives on a farm in Marion County, near Oskaloosa; Anna M., born 1880, married John Philips, who died, and later she married Sherman Sanderson resides in South Dakota; Charles H., born 1883, married May Callison, lives in Redfield, Iowa.

Jesse Smith was active in church affairs before his health failed. He helped build, financially and with his labor, the Baptist Church at Killduff, of which he and his wife are charter members.

Scott Smith began to work for himself at the age of twenty years. He rented a place from his father and farmed it for a while. In 1901 he bought one hundred and sixty acres in Buena Vista Township, which he farmed for three years, when he sold it to Ike Barda and moved to Newton, but one year later he moved back on his father's farm where he has since resided.

On February 15, 1899, Scott Smith was united in marriage to Anna M. Hill, daughter of J. B. and Elizabeth (Stanley) Hill, both natives of Indiana, she being the seventh child born in a family of eight. Mr. Hill, her father, was a large landowner in Buena Vista Township, and a very fine man. He departed this life in 1900, at his old home place in Buena Vista Township, his wife surviving him and now lives in Kellogg.

To Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been born four children, as follows: Clarence, born April 26, 1900; Florence, born January 2, 1906; Ruth, born June 30, 1908, died September 2, 1909; Ester Evelin, born June 10, 1911.

Besides farming, Mr. Smith owns and operates in partnership with his brother-in-law, Bert Hill, a threshing machine, also owning a fine automobile and is a progressive farmer. Fraternally, he is a member of the Iowa State Grange in Buena Vista. Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleasant View. Mr. Smith has since bought the place on which he lives, his father's old homestead. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 797.