Samuel Smith
(1742-1789)
Hulda Bull Mathers
(1742-1825)
David Smith Sr
Phobe Mills
(1767-1813)
Daniel Smith
(1800-1866)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Mary Ellen Duddleson

Daniel Smith

  • Born: 27 Mar 1800, Backhampton, CT
  • Marriage (1): Mary Ellen Duddleson in 1822
  • Died: 4 Jun 1866 at age 66
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bullet  General Notes:

He was said to have come from CT per www.Heritagepursuit.com with hx of Wyandot Co. OH
Daniel was born March 27, 1800 and died June 4, 1866 as a result of injuries he received while horse racing.
(recollections of Joseph Mason Smith)"Daniel Smith was born in 1800. His parents moved to Sackets Harbor, New York from England. When Daniel was a small boy 12 or 13 he answered in another man’s place in the War of 1812, but he was only there for 3 days. The only battle he was engaged in was shooting at the British who were out stealing chickens. At the age of 16 he came to Ohio. His wardrobe tied up in a handkerchief, walked and carried his axe. His first stop was Aleria (sp), there helping to clear several farms, going from there to Seneca County and helped to raise the third house in Tiffin. He purchased a strip of land three miles east of Tiffin, then Crawford County. They had to go to Bucyrus to pay the taxes as there was no Wyandot County. He rented the Nigger Town farm of the Indians and engaged in farming and cattle raising of stock. There being no railroads they were compelled to drive their cattle to market. In 1842, when grandfather (Joseph) was ten years old he walked and led an ox at the head of about 75 head of cattle to Cleveland. At the time there were no railroads to Cleveland. Grandfather (Joseph) began to herd cattle on the wild plains of Crawford County when he was 11 years old and herded for about four years.
Daniel Smith bought about 3,000 acres at the Government Land Sales from 1844 to 1846. There was very little improved land in that amount. It was during this time of the land sales that Wyandot County was formed. My grandfather (Joseph) worked and helped his father clear the land until 1848, at which time they moved from Nigger Town to where Harrison Smith later resided. In 1855, they built a new house and moved in it on New Years Day 1856 and resided there until Daniel Smith died in 1866 and was followed by his wife in 1882."

POB per research of ALissa Youngbird on Rootsweb


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Daniel married Mary Ellen Duddleson in 1822. (Mary Ellen Duddleson was born on 28 Feb 1797 in Stanton, Virginia and died on 10 Dec 1882.)




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