Thomas Smith Family Bible

Transcript: Family History

[Title Page]

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FAMILY RECORD.

BIRTHS.	BIRTHS.
Thomas Smith son of Thomas and Sarah Smith, was born the sixth day of the seventh month 1760. and departed this life on the ninth day of the ninth month 1813. Aged 53 yrs 2 mo. & 3 days	Leatitia Smith wife of Thomas Smith and Daughter of Crispin and Martha Blackfan was born the sixth day of the third month—1763. And departed this life on 25^th of the 4 ^mo 1841, aged Eighty-Eight years, and nineteen days 88 yrs & 9 days

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FAMILY RECORD.

BIRTHS.	BIRTHS.
Children of Thomas & Leatitia Smith (aforesaid)
Thomas Smith was born on the 14^th of 11 ^mo 1785	Died 1851
Moses B. Smith was born on the 29^th of 9 ^mo 1787	Died July 15 1855
Aaron Smith 21^st of 4 ^mo 1789 and departed this life 26^th of same month
Leatitia Smith was born the 25^th of 5 ^mo 1790	Died
Edward Smith was born on the 30^th of 5 ^mo 1792	Died
Oliver H. Smith was born on the 23^d of 10 ^mo 1794
Mary B. Smith was born on the 3^d of 1^st ^mo 1797
Job Smith was born the 29^th of 4 ^mo 1799
Elijah Smith was born on the 2^d of 5 ^mo 1801
Septimus Smith was born on the 4^th of 5 ^mo 1803.	Died 12 ^mo 31, 1831

[New Testament Title Page]

Edward Smith. [Signature]

Ownership of this Bible descended to Edward Smith, and he has signed the New Testament title page.
Oliver Hampton Smith, 1794–1859, was a Quaker, an attorney, congressman (1827–29) and U.S. senator (1836–43) from Indiana. In 1858 he wrote briefly about returning to his childhood home: “Our once united, happy family were separated forever. My beloved parents, Thomas and Laetitia Smith, had long since gone to the reward of the just. The farm on which I was raised had passed into the possession of strangers. The choice fruit that had been cultivated by my father I saw plucked from the branches of the old trees by other hands.” (Smith, p. 635)

American National Biography. “Oliver Hampton Smith.”
Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana by William Wesley Woollen. pp. 196–203. [Google Books]
Smith, Oliver Hampton. Early Indiana Trials and Sketches Reminiscences by Hon. O.H. Smith. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. 1858. [Google Books]