SMITH, David D.

SMITH, HAMILTON, PARKER, TUCKER

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 3/26/2008 at 21:58:58

David D. Smith is another early settler of Mitchell county. He came from Carroll Co., Ind., in 1856, with two span of horses, locating Cedar township on section 11, township 97, range 17, at once building a hewed log house and setting out a grove. His farm contains 250 acres, most of which is improved.

In 1874 he erected a commodious frame house where he now lives. He was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hamilton) Smith, natives of Virginia, who removed to Greene Co., Ohio, where David was born April 3, 1822. When he was ten his parents moved to White Co., Ind., and became pioneers as they had been in Ohio. He remained with his parents until twenty-two years of age. He was married Dec. 31, 1846, to Lydia, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Parker) Tucker. They have two children—Charles Henry and Mary Isabelle.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 303.