Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Smith, S.G. December 2, 1840 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Centre Township
p. 363

S.G. Smith, farmer and stock-dealer, was born near Richmond, Ind., Dec. 2, 
1840, a son of George and Ellen (Stillwell) Smith, his father a native of 
Maryland and his mother of New Jersey. His father was by trade a paper-maker. 
In 1839 he came with his family to Wayne County, Ind., and settled in Richmond 
where he worked at his trade a few years and then bought a farm in Centre 
Township, and the rest of his life was engaged in agricultural pursuits. He 
died at the age of sixty-five years. His widow, living, is seventy-three years 
old. They had a family of five children---Samuel G.; Benjamin D. (deceased); 
George C., of Centreville; William H. and Robert P. (deceased). Samuel G. 
Smith was reared a farmer, and has always followed that vocation. He is 
energetic, a good manager, and enterprising, and ranks among the leading 
farmers and stock-dealers of the county. He owns 192 acres of fine land well-
improved. Politically he is Republican. He was married Oct. 25, 1866, to 
Martha R., daughter of Oliver T. and Mary (King) Jones. They have four 
children---Harry J., Cora A., Howard G. and Oscar P. Mrs. Smith is a member of 
the Christian church. In the war of the Rebellion Mr. Smith served two months 
in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Indiana Infantry, on the Ohio and 
Mississippi rivers.

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