This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WHITE, SMITH, GRIMES, GILLOGLY, BOWDEN, HESTER, WILSON, WILLSON, BENNETT, WATSON, HUMBERT, HITCHCOCK Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADE/879 Message Board Post: The following is a transcription of notes Copied from the Bible of Willliam and Sarah (WHITE) SMITH, in the possession of _______________, Carroll Co, IL, in the early 1980s by Marilyn Carter. BIRTHS: Willie Oscar Smith was born Jan 13, 1871 Elmer Elias Smith was born Dec 25, 1873 Ira Orvil Smith was born Oct 17, 1876 Emery Erl [Eli?] Smith was born Jan 7, 1883 Hattie May Smith was born Nov 4, 1884 Mabbel May Smith was born Oct 20, 1897 (Following from family notes of other source) Sarah White Smith dau. Of Mathew and Jane Ann (Grimes) White, b. Hanover, IL Dec 10, 1842 m. Wm. Smith Mar 10, 1868 in Carroll Co. 4 sons (see above) Oscar, Elmer, Orville, Emery 1 daughter (above) Hattie Gillogly 1 sister Elizabeth Bowden of Eliz., Ill. Died on a Friday, Buried Dec 18 1923 by Rev. Evett Knight Hester Rachel Wilson, dau. Of Jacob and Susanna Willson Susanna m. #1 Jacob Willson m. #2 ? Bennett Wm. M. Smith was son of Elias Smith b. Woodland Twnshp on Dec 2, 1840 Elias Smith m. Eliz. Watson Elias W. m. 1st Eliz. Watson in April 20, 1836, d 9 Mar 1857 in Woodland - had 13 children - m. 2nd Delilah Humbert on Jan 27, 1859 in Mt. Carroll - had 2 children Delilah married Daniel Hitchcock on Nov 8 1865 - after the death of Elias W. Elias W. b. 1816, MD d. Feb 24, 1863 Eliz. Watson Smith, b. April 4, 1817, MD d. Mar 9, 1857, Woodland Township