Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Smelser, Isham November 23, 1823 - September 28, 1882
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Centre Township
p. 362 & 363

Isham Smelser, deceased, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Smith) Smelser, was born 
Nov. 23, 1823, in Wayne County, Ind. He was married in 1850 to Henrietta, 
daughter of John and Catherine Farlow, who came from North Carolina to Union 
County, Ind. in an early day. The result of this marriage was four children---
John F., Jacob S., Mary E. and Richard E. Soon after his marriage Mr. Smelser 
settled on the farm now occupied by his family, and which contains 326 acres 
of land. He followed agricultural pursuits through life, and was one of the 
enterprising cattle raisers of the neighborhood. He was a member of the 
Universalist church. His death occurred Sept. 28, 1882, in his fifty-ninth 
year. His parents came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1822, from Kentucky, and 
spent the rest of their lives in Boston Township. Jacob Smelser died Dec. 8, 
1875, aged ninety-one years, and his wife died at the age of seventy-five 
years, Apr. 7, 1869.

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