Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Thomas B. SMITH ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From the Adams County Press, Volume XXXI Number 15, Saturday September 19, 1891, Page 4 Thomas B. SMITH, whose death was announced in the Press last week, was born in Newark, Nottingham shire, England, in 1825. In 1850 he was married to a most estimable and worthy lady who survives him. Three years after their marriage the young people came to America to find and build for themselves a home. Their first year in the New World was spent in the state of New York, and then they followed the star of empire to the west and came to southern Wisconsin, where they remained four years. In 1861 he enlisted in Company E, 16th Wisconsin, and was a comrade in the same company as Judge KEYES, Lieutenant Harry P. PIERCE and many other Adams county men. At the Battle of Shiloh, devotion to a wounded brother, Samuel SMITH, led to his being captured by the rebels. He was some weeks afterwards paroled, and subsequently, on being exchanged, returned to his command and served under Sherman to the end--his service extending over a period of three years and eight months. After the war he resided for some years on a farm in Richfield. Eleven years ago he moved to Coloma, where he resided until about four weeks before his death, when he moved to Coloma Station. he leaves a widow, three sons and two daughters. A good, brave man has gone to his reward.