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Born 1828
From The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominen (1883)
THOMAS SMITH. His farm consists of 320 acres of fine land, having settled where he now resides in October, 1865, from Bourbon county, Kan., having gone there in the spring of 1860 from Wayne county. Mo., and in 1856 from Sevier county, Tenn. He was born in Tennessee, in 1828, being the son of Nicholas and Kaziah (Engham) Smith, her father a native of South Carolina, born in 1797, and died in 1867; her mother a native of England, coming to America with her parents when two years old, being born in 1798, and died in 1831. They were married in South Carolina, and settled in Tennessee, having a family of eight children. Our subject wab married May 23, 1850, to Miss Sarah Handley, a native of Sevier county, Tenn., born in 1828, being a daughter of James and Nancy (Richardson) Handley; her father was born in 1798, and died Nov. 3, 1871; her mother was born in 1799, and died June 12, 1854. There was a family of nine children. Mr. and Mrs. Smith's family are as follows: James P., William H., John H., Catharine C, Sarah C, Martha and Nettie (twins), AUie A., and T. Edmond; and have lost E. J., Andrew, and Mary A. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are both members of the Baptist Church.
As printed in The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominent (1883). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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