FYI, this was sent on to me regarding Seitz and Bloom twp, please contact Karl directly for any further info. He wrote: Jane Irwin: A cousin of mine forwarded your recent posting to the Seneca County, Ohio, e-mail list concerning a family Bible. While I have no knowledge of the Smith and Dove families, the certification of marriage was made by a brother of my great-great grandfather and his second wife. Lewis Seitz Jr., born Oct 21, 1802, died July 12, 1890, was the son of a Baptist pastor and became one himself. He moved from Fairfield County, Ohio, to Bloom township, Seneca County, Ohio as a young adult with his first wife. Seneca County histories often refer to him as Elder Lewis Seitz. His second wife was Martha Mawk Hershberger, a widow. She was born about 1809 and died Sep. 22, 1883. I pass on this information so you can tell the lady that the Smith-Dove marriage definitely took place in Bloomville, Ohio. -- Karl Seitz > >-------------------- >X-Message: #1 >Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:17:02 -0500 >From: "Jane Irwin" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: SMITH/DOVE/SEITZ Bloomville/fwd another list >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Knowing how difficult Smith must be, passing this along, as it turned up >from my PML for Tiffin, Ohio. I have no other knowledge of this post. >Source: [email protected] >Subject: [SMITH] Family Bible > > >I found a query on one of the query boards for Smith. I thought it >might be my John Smith but after receiving this response it turned out >to be another John Smith. Thought I would stick the reply out there and >see if the anyone was interested. I will put you in touch with the lady >I received the email from. Here is her reply: > >In the front of the Bible; >"Presented to Mrs.. J.H. Smith by her husband ~ April 2, 1884" > >"Marriage" >This certifies that John H. and Sarah J. Dove were united by me in the >Holy bonds of matrimony at Bloomville, (no state given here! - I just >assumed Ohio before! - maybe it is in Kentucky!) 21, February, 1867/ >Martha Seits and Lewis (Jervis?) Seitz --- (yes Martha's name was >spelled with an "s" at the end and Lewis's was spelled with a "z") -- >Sis thought that it looked like "Lewis" instead of Jervis when I spoke >with her this evening. > >"Births" > >Mary Ellen Smith - January 27, 1868 - Died March 12, 1869 - 1 yr. 1mo. >13 days of age > >Jola Belle Smith - October 20, 1869 - Died June 18, 1878 - 8 yrs. 8 mo. >28 days of age > >Elizzie Jane Smith - May 27, 1872 - (must have survived!) > >Jesse Grant Smith - April 2, 1874 - Died July 8, 1878 - 4 yrs. 3 mo. 6 >days of age > >Nellie May Smith - Feb. 17, 1877 - Died April 3, 1879 - 2 yrs 1 mo. 17 >days of age > >Eva Etta Smith - Feb. 27, 1880 - (must have survived!) > >"Memorandum" > >John Henry Smith born October 30, 1842 >Sara Jane Smith born August (? 11th or 14th?) 184 (? 7 or 9?) > >Sis said some guy found this Bible in a house in Colorado - she is >presuming it was in the Denver area - or up in the mountains north of >Denver. He had brought the Bible into an antique shop and the dealer >bought the Bible from the guy. She is in possession of the Bible, but >it is not hers to sell. She lived with the antique dealer at one time >(he lived with her) and when their relationship ended, he left several >of his antique items and that was one of them. She has lost contact >with him, but doesn't want to give the Bible up at this time as she >feels it isn't hers to give away or sell.) > >There were two pictures in the Bible as well. > >The one picture is of a man, woman and a baby. on the back it says: >"Taken Lizzie Smith, Bloomville, Ohio - put on her >bowtie....?....??....." (can't read the rest) >Tun_son and Son Photographers - Tiffin, Ohio (could be Tiffan - I don't >know how it is spelled she just read it off to me over the phone) > >The other picture is of a lady - nothing is written on the back. It was >also done by Tun?son and Son Photographers - Tiffin, Ohio. > >Good Luck, >Jim Smith >[email protected] Jane [email protected]