This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SMITH SMITHE WILSON CLEVIDENCE FORD HORN WALTERS DAVIS BENNETT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADE/876 Message Board Post: Transcribed from photocopy of transcription (!) obtained by Marilyn Carter in the early 1980s. Please note that although I believe to to be correct, it has not been proofread. COPIED FROM THE BIBLE IN POSSESSION OF _____________, Savanna, (Carroll Co.) Illinois; Belonged to her Great Grandfather (mother's grandfather). In front of Bible: Elias W. Smith Also Elias W. Smith Elilhe Bethe Smith: their Bible Washington C. Smith Oh! This life is all a weary strife And time flies swiftly o'er Oh! Place not your heart and earthy things For they will pass away But lift your eyes to yonder skies to Immortality Your Sincere Friend and Well Wisher T. W. Ford Elias Smith 1839 Washington C. Smith and Rachel A. Wilson was married July 1st, A.D. 1869 W. C. Smith born Feb 16th, 1843 Rachel A. Wilson born Jan 21st 1853 (Notice pasted in from paper) (Smith-Wilson - at the residence of J. T. Clevidence, in this city, on the 1st inst. By Elder Elias Y. Smith, Washington C. Smith & Miss Rachel A. Wilson) Mrs. Susan Bennett d. Mar 28th at 10:30 o'clock 1886 BIRTHS Eliza Jane Smithe b. 29th Jan 1837 Harriet Smithe b. 16th Sept. 1838 Sarah Elen Smithe b. 16th Jan 1840 Thomas Jefferson Smithe b. 4th Dec 1841 - Civil War Washinton C. Smith b. 16th Feb 1843 Mariah Smith b. Sept. 28, 1844 George W. Smith b. Nov 22nd 1846 Mary Jane Smith b. July 26th 1848 William M. Smith b. Dec 3rd 1849 Lucindy Smith b. Feb 26th 1851 } entered by Elias? Josiah G, (or F. Smith b. Feb 22, 1854 } Elizabeth Smith b. April 28, 1855 Susan Jane Smith B. Feb 15th 1857 d. age 9 mo. Milton Frederic Smith b. Mar 14, 1860 Catherine Minerva Smith b. June 29, 1861 Milton F. Smith killed April 21, 1872 Ella Louise Horn b. Sept 8, 1877 Lena May Horn b. Feb 12, 1884 DEATHS Elias W. Smith died the 24th of Feb. 1863 at Murpheysboro [sic] Tenn of diarreah [sic] And pneumonia Elilhe Beth Smith d. Mar 9, 1857 Elizabeth Smith b. April [4?] 1817 d. Feb 21st 1853 age 39 yr 9 mo 5 days Marih Smith was b. Sept 29th 1844 and d. 1858 age 12 yr 8 mo Sarah Elen Clevidence d. Jan 25, 1878 age 35 yr and 10 days Mrs. Elizabeth Walters d. May 29th 1881 Mrs. Mary J. Davis died Jan 26 1882 age 33 yr 7 mo Washington C. Smith d. Oct 1st, 11:30 A.M. 1885