Biographical Sketch of C. D. Smith, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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C. D. Smith was born in Virginia, April 22, 1807, and emigrated to
Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri in 1838, where he worked at tanning
for two years.  He then moved to the neighborhood of Otterville, where
he carried on tanning, making a new and complete tan yard, which he
operated for about twelve years.  In 1856 he quit the tanning business
and went to farming.  He remained on a farm until 1869, when he sold
out and moved to Otterville, where he lived with his son-in-law, Mr. 
T. V. Ellis, nearly twelve years.  During 1861 he took to his bed with
chronic rheumatism, and was not out of bed for three years.  Ever 
since he has walked on crutches.  He sustained loss by the war, in
negroes and stock, to the amount of about $2,000.  His son, C. Q. Smith
was in the Confederate service about two years, and was under General
Cockerel, and taken prisoner and put in prison at St. Louis.  His 
sister, Mrs. Ellis, secured his release.  Mr. Smith was married in
November, 1835, to Miss Mary A. Thompson, a native of Virginia.  She
had seven children, one died in infancy.  The others are alive and 
doing well, and all married except the youngest daughter.  He is a
member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and has donated toward build-
ing several churches.  He has never regretted moving to Missouri, where
he has had nothing to encounter except that which is incident to a
pioneers life.  Mr. Smith, although a cripple, is cheerful and happy,
truly resigned to his condition, and does not utter a single complaint.

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