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From: Karen Landry <>
Subject: Re: [SMITH] Josephus Smith b. 1800 in Connecticut
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 05:47:21 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <6a.34f47318.2c8d35c2@aol.com>

I'm interested in your Josephus Smith. My g-g-g
Grandfather was Jacob W. Smith born in RI (according
to the 1850 census) in 1799. He also married a Conant
- Martha. He married in MA and later moved to CT. Do
you have any more information regarding the possible
parentage of Josephus or his wife Laura or of their
siblings?

Karen Landry

--- wrote:
> My oldest Smith is Josephus D. Smith born Dec. 12,
> 1800 in New Haven County,
> Connecticut. That information is from his obituary.
> He died December 1889 in
> Madison County, Idaho.
>
> He moved to Geauga County, Ohio in the early 1820s
> and married Laura Conant
> there in 1824. They had five known children. He
> moved to Linn Co., Iowa about
> 1849 and in 1852, at the age of 52, he made a trip
> via ox team to the gold
> fields of California. His home was lost in an
> tornado in 1860 and he moved to
> Madison County Iowa about 1866.
>
> I think his parents are Justus Smith and Eunice
> Matthews of New Haven
> Connecticut because they had a son named Josephus
> who was born to them in December
> 1800.
>
> Diana
>
>
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