This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VJIBAEB/28225 Message Board Post: Sylvanus David, also known as SD, Smith born 1829 NY, just before parents David and Sarah Smith moved to Oakland County, Michigan. Sylvanus married Rhoda Nutter and resided Kalamazoo County, Michigan, where children Mary and George were born in 1859 and 1857. In 1870 census the family is in Richmond, Nemaha County, Kansas. Sylvanus is listed as David S, the only known time he used David. Rhoda is 30, George age 13, Mary J age 11, William age 8, all children born Michigan, and Thomas born in Kansas, April age 3/12. 1880, Rhoda is now deceased and SD remarried to Laura Ballard. Children are Thomas age 10, Jacob D age 5, Charles S age 3, and Libbie age 1. Sylvanus D Smith died in 1887 just before his father David Smith died in 1888 in Oakland County, Michigan. Laura remarried to Frank Hurlburt and they are in the 1900 census in Seneca, Nemaha, Kansas. We know that Thomas, George, and Mary are buried in Tulare County, California. We know that Elizabeth / Libby married an Anderson. We would like contact with any relative or researcher who can help us fill in this family. We can give information on the siblings of Sylvanus Smith. Mailing address 1405 Hunt Rd, Mayville, MI 48744