This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Clinger Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VJIBAEB/28423 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 937. TOWN OF MARION E. B. SMITH, farmer; Sec. 30; P. O. Boscobel; born in Erie Co., Penn.; at the age of 12 he came with his parents to Grant Co., where he has since resided, coming here in 1846; they are among the oldest settlers in the county. Enlisted in 1862 in Co. C, 20th W. V. I.; served till the end of the war; participated in the battles of Prairie Grove, Ark., Vicksburg, Brownsville, Texas, Yazoo City, Mobile, Ala., and others; has been to California, and has traveled over most of the Western country; he owns 280 acres of land. Married in 1866, to Miss Mary Clinger; they have five children - one son and four daughters. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]