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Year Settled in Iowa: Year Settled in Iowa: 1856 - Thomas and Mary Jackson Smith were with a large Mormon Emigration who was planning to travel by hand-cart to Salt Lake City. They chose to not make the trip and stay in Newton, Jasper County, Iowa. He was the Street Commissioner in Newton for many years. County where ancestor first settled: Jasper Born: 10 Mar 1834 Birth Place: Barnsley, Yorkshire, England Married: Mary Jackson, 25 May 1856 Marriage Location: On board the Mormon Emigrant Sailing Ship Horizon, just off the coast of England Died: 26 Feb 1907, Newton, Jasper County, Iowa Burial Location: Newton Union Cemetery, Jasper County, Iowa Father: Unknown Mother: Unknown Spouse: Mary Jackson Born: 28 Mar 1837 Birth Location: Barnsley, Yorkshire, England Died: 23 Jul 1872, Newton, Jasper County, Iowa Burial Location: Newton Union Cemetery, Jasper County, Iowa Foster Father: James Wadsworth Foster Mother: Elizabeth Wadsworth Hutchinson Second Marriage: Martha Hanson Born: 1840 Birth Location: England Married: About 1874 Died: 1942 Burial: Newton Union Cemetery, Jasper County, Iowa Proof: Thomas Smith obituary, The Newton Daily News, Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, Tuesday, February 26, 1907, Page 1, Column 3. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2003. Original data: 1870, Year: 1870; Census Place: Newton, Jasper, Iowa; Roll: M593_398; Page: 396; Image: 433. 1880 United States Census: Newton, Jasper, Iowa; Roll: 346; Family History Film: 1254346; Page: 96C; Enumeration District: 094; Image: 0416 Helen Free Vanderbeek, George Allen Wadsworth - Pilley to Panaca (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1983), page 26. Ship manifest, Horizon, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. European Mission, Emigration records, European Mission; 1849-1885, 1899-1923, Emigration registers 1855-1863, FHL BRITISH Film 25691. Children - list name, birth date / location, death date / location, spouse, marriage date / location and any other information of each known child. With Mary Jackson he had two children: Tomey B. Smith, born 6 Oct 1866, Died 2 Mar 1868 and buried Newton Union Cemetery, Newton Jasper County Iowa, and Frank Smith born about 1872. From his obituary, he had three daughters with his second wife Martha Hansen, Minnie, Kate at home and Mrs. William Gardner. Name and e-mail address of submitter: Date: April 10, 2012 |