Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: William R. SMAIL ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, January 2010 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Omro Journal February 27, 1896 p.1 William R. Smail died at his residence in the town of Rushford, on Feb. 16, 1896, after an illness of three months, caused by a Sarcoma. Deceased was born in the township of Edwardsburg, Province of Ontario, Canada, on December 16th, 1826, of Scotch parents. In his youth he had few advantages, but received a common school education. He served as an apprentice for five years with John Miller & Sons of Spencerville, Ontario at blacksmithing. In 1850 he was married to Ann Lannin, and the same year moved to Wisconsin and settled in the village of Honey Creek, Walworth County. The next year he moved to Rochester, Racine County where he remained until January 1856, when he moved his family onto the farm where he died, making the trip with two yoke of oxen on a wagon, there commencing the work of clearing up a farm, out of the green wood under many difficulties, **** constitution and a clear head won the day. His wife, two sons and one daughter survive him. He was a man of very temperate habits, using neither tobacco or liquor, and was a lover of fine stock of all kinds.