Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Smith, John C. 1819 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   John C. Smith, farmer, Newtown, though a young lad when he reached this
neighborhood with his parents, William H. and Mary (Stout) Smith, in 1828, was
yet one of the pioneers in this section of country. He was born in Ohio,
November 13, 1819. His father was a native of New Jersey, and his mother was
born on Shemoken creek, Pennsylvania. They were married December 18, 1817. The
family, on their arrival, wintered at Shawnee Mound; then they lived eighteen
months on the Foster place, in Shawnee township; after which, in 1830, they
settled down on the farm where Mr. Smith has since lived. His parents both died
here; his father, March 22, 1845, and his mother April 6, 1870. His father was a
wheelwright, and he learned the trade from him, but never made any use of it
afterward. Mr. Smith and Phebe Stephens were united in marriage April 6, 1851.
She was the daughter of William and Sarah Stephens, and was born September 29,
1830. The issue of this union has been six children, born as follows: William
Franklin, January 9, 1852; Leroy, August 22, 1854; Daniel V., September 10,
1857; John H., February 3, 1863; Laura, February 13, 1867; and Emma, April 28,
1869, died April 12, 1870. Mr. Smith has been assessor of Richland township two
years. He was drafted in time of the war and had his arrangements to report for
muster nearly completed when he was taken sick with fever and was prevented from
serving his term. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church, and he has
been an Odd-Fellow since 1858. He owns eighty acres of farming land and thirty
acres of woodland. In politics he is a democrat. Mr. Smith's grandfather,
Michael Stout, was in the war of the revolution, probably as a teamster; he came
to this township in 1831. A neighbor of his, John Bake, another revolutionary
soldier, settled here in 1829. These veterans were buried side by side in the
Shawnee graveyard.

Additional Comments:
Richland Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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