Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Smith, J. R. 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  J. R. SMITH, farmer, P. O. Palestine, was born in Fayette County, Ky. He is a
son of W. B. Smith, who was born in the same place, and who married a Miss
Casey, born March 28, 1772. She is the mother of twelve children, and is now
living at Mattoon, aged one hundred and ten years. The grandfather of our
subject was a Judge of the Circuit Court at Logansport, Ind., when he was one
hundred and two years old; he died at the age of one hundred and fifteen. This
proves that our subject is of a long-lived family. He was married, 1854, in
Bartholomew County, Ind., to Miss Nancie Chields, who was born in the same
place, and who is the mother of the following children: Oscar, Finley, Joe,
Harry, Amanda, Emeline, Martha I. and Rose Bell. Mr. Smith is independent in
politics; his father was a soldier in the Black Hawk war.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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