Jefferson-Marion County IL Archives Biographies.....SMITH, Benjamin August 29, 1838 - 
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From 'History of Jefferson County, Illinois, by Anonymous 1883
     BENJAMIN SMITH, farmer, P. O. Spring Garden, is a great-grandson of 
Alexander and Joanna SMITH, who settled in North Carolina.  They had the 
following children born to them in Tyrell County, that State, viz.:  Ann, born 
February 6, 1771; Joanna, January 23, 1774; Isaac, January 19, 1779; Ananias, 
December 12, 1780; Zilpha, April 10, 1782; Euphemia, November 1, 1783; Loef, 
March 2, 1789; and Jose, February 12, 1797.  The third child of this family, 
Isaac, was the grandfather of our subject.  This child grew to manhood in North 
Carolina, and there married Millie HASSLE.  THE twain came to Tennessee, and 
settled in Hickman County, where unto them were born nine children, among them 
Anderson, the father of our subject, who was born February 6, 1811, and Jesse 
H., whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work.  Isaac came to this county 
with his family about 1829, and settled in Spring Garden Township, near where 
subject now resides, where he died about 1850.  The father of our subject grew 
to manhood in this county, and married a Miss Elizabeth HOPPER, who was born in 
Middle Tennessee January 28, 1811.  She was a daughter of Thomas HOPPER, who 
came to this county in a very early day, probably about 1820.  The parents of 
our subject also settled near where the latter now resides, and there subject 
was born August 29, 1838.  The parents lived in this county until a ripe old 
age.  The mother peacefully passed away March 22, 1870, and the father, who for 
fifteen years before his death had been Deacon of the Spring Garden Baptist 
Church, died May 3, 1872.  Our subject attended both the subscription and free 
schools of his county until about twenty-one, and then worked at home about one 
year, and then located on his present farm, a piece of land that had been 
entered by his father, and of whom our subject afterward purchased it.  He now 
owns about 400 acres in Sections 1, 2, 3 and 12, of Township 4, Range 3 east; 
has about 240 under cultivation and thirty in orchard.  Mr. Smith was married, 
January 24, 1860, to Elizabeth SHIRLEY, a daughter of Russell and Jinca (ALLAN) 
SHIRLEY.  The father was a native of Hamilton County, Ill., and the mother of 
Macon County, N. C.  The result of this union has been twelve children, of whom 
nine are living---Isaac N., born February 6, 1862; George H., May 19, 1863; 
Seth T., June 7, 1865; Charles E., March 14, 1869; Judson A., April 6, 1871; 
Ellis Lee, April 28, 1877; Ollie J., February 17, 1873; Ornie, September 26, 
1879; Rado, December 19, 1881.  Of the deceased children, William D. was born 
September 14, 1860, and died September 14, 1867; Mary F., born May 2, 1867, 
died December 3, 1869; and an infant born April 28, 1877,and died May 5 of the 
same year.  Our subject has been a member of the County Board of Supervisors, 
also served as Road Commissioner, School Director, etc.  Is a member of Ham's 
Grove Lodge, No. 405, I. O. O. F.; has served in the different offices in that 
organization, and is now Past Grand; has also been representative two years at 
the Grand Lodge.  In politics, Mr. Smith is a Greenbacker.

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