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From: "Lucy Weaver" <>
Subject: James M. Smith, Defiance Co.,OH.
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 16:24:11 -0500

Taken from History of Defiance County, Ohio published by Warner Beers and
Co. published 1883. pg. 264 Delaware Township
JAMES M. SMITH. The subject of this sketch was born in Crawford County,
Ohio, December 24, 1850, and the next year A.D. 1851, his parents, James and
Mahala(Tucker) Smith, moved to this county and to Delaware Township, Section
30, and took up on this farm on which James M. now resides, and to
accomplish which Mr.Smith was obliged to cut the road for several miles,
this section being at that time a dense forest, and for a number of years
they were obliged to go to Defiance for their milling and to do their
trading. Mr. S. was born A.D. 1811, in Virginia, and died February 17,
1875, aged sixty-four years. His wife died February 21, 1861, aged
forty-three years, nine months and eleven days. James M. Smith was married
April 13, 1876, to Miss Lcuy C. Wilson, daughter of Hezekiah and Sarah
(Markel) Wilson, who was born in Defiance County, May 5, 1853. They have
one child living-Ellen Adella, who was born March 25, A.D. 1879.
Contributed by Lucy Weaver, Defiance Co.,OH.

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