Ken-- I didn't see anything on your Levi Smith in a (very) quick skim of the Metamora chapter of Moore's _History of Woodford County_, but did find this in a bio of El Paso photographer Levi F. Smith in _The El Paso Story_. Could the "Uncle Levi" mentioned be yours? "At the time of his death on March 18, 1929, Levi F. Smith enjoyed the distinction of being the oldest acting photographer in the United States. He was also El Paso's oldest active business man. Mr. Smith was born in Holden, Massachusetts, October 7, 1855, the son of Benjamin F. and Sarah Maria Smith. From Holden the youth moved with his parents to Worcester; in 1866 the family made another change to Woodstock, Ohio, and in 1867 they moved to El Paso, Illinois. Here young Levi worked at the shoe trade with his father and Uncle Levi." <-------- Allen Drake's El Paso History webpage at http://www.elpaso.net/~bank/elpasohistory/index.htm has a lot of El Paso history. The quote above came from page 292 of _The El Paso Story_ available on this site. There may be other mention in the text, if you have time to invest in some browsing. Harriet Ball Smith 1820-1875 and Levi Smith (no dates) are also listed in David Fever's Evergreen Cemetery Database which can be linked from this page. Dan Steffen At 09:01 AM 4/6/02 -0700, you wrote: >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 19:20:20 -0800 >From: "Ken Newton" <k-newton@cox.net> >To: ILWOODFO-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <000e01c1dd19$fba80ce0$6a860644@sd.cox.net> >Subject: [ILWOODFORD] SMITH >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >Researching Levi Smith b. 1818 MA, his wife Harriet (Ball) Wheelock Smith >b. abt 1820 MA, daughter Alletta b. 1842 MA married Sylvanus Newton in OH >in 1856. Another daughter is Ella born abt. 1856 IL. Levi is in Metamora >in the 1860 census. Is Levi listed in the History of Woodford Co? >Is anyone else researching this line? >Ken Newton