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John P. Smith

Birth	:	28 Jun 1834 Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death	:	16 May 1906
Burial	:	West Memory Gardens Cemetery, Moraine, Montgomery County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.6866989, -84.3028030
Plot	:	Lot 46
Description	:	Source-History of State of Nebraska-Buffalo county- Andreas 1895 JOHN SMITH,of the firm of John Smith & Sons,dealers in all kinds of agricultural implements,wagons and buggies,opened the business in the fall of 1879.He located two and one half miles northwest of Shelton.on the homestead of 160 acres,in April 1870,and engaged in farming and stock-raising.He now owns 200 acres of fine agricultural land.He was born in Lawrence County,Penn.,June 28 ,1834;was brought up on a farm until eighteen years of age,when he began to learn the shoemaker's trade,which he followed until he enlisted,August 28,1861,in Company F.,One Hundredth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry;participated in the... Read More	Source-History of State of Nebraska-Buffalo county- Andreas 1895 JOHN SMITH,of the firm of John Smith & Sons,dealers in all kinds of agricultural implements,wagons and buggies,opened the business in the fall of 1879.He located two and one half miles northwest of Shelton.on the homestead of 160 acres,in April 1870,and engaged in farming and stock-raising.He now owns 200 acres of fine agricultural land.He was born in Lawrence County,Penn.,June 28 ,1834;was brought up on a farm until eighteen years of age,when he began to learn the shoemaker's trade,which he followed until he enlisted,August 28,1861,in Company F.,One Hundredth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry;participated in the battles of Hilton Head,James Island S.C.,when he was taken prisoner June 8,1862;was confined four months and paroled,and went to Annapolis,Md.He rejoined his Regiment at Fredricksburg,Va.,afterward participated in the battles of Vicksburg,Jackson,Miss.,and Knoxville,Tenn.He then re-enlisted and came home on a furlough;afterward joined the army of the Potomac under Gen.U.S. Grant,and was in the battle of the Wilderness,Spottsylvania Court House,North Anna River,Cold Harbor and Petersburg,until the surrender of Gen.Robert E. Lee;was mustered out in Harrisburg,Penn.July 28,1865.He then engaged in the boot and shoe trade in Lawrence County,Penn.Which he followed until 1870.He was married in December,1855,to Miss Sarah Fox,of Harmony,butler Co. Penn.They have three children-Horatio K., James H.,Married and Living on the homestead,and Albert,deceased.Mrs Smith died in 1868.Mr. Smith was married again,in 1869,to Miss Sarah Fox Busby,of Lawrence County,Penn.Mr. Smith is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Shelton,Residence and business in Block Number 1,Shelton Ne. Part of a biography of John Smith's son, H. K. Smith: "J. P. and Sarah (Fox) Smith, both of whom are natives of the Keystone State and of German descent. His father is one of the honored pioneers of Buffalo county, having immigrated from Pennsylvania in the spring of 1871 and was the first actual settler to build a frame house north of the Wood river in Sharon township. Wild game and Indians, too, were plenty. The settler had to watch the game to kill it, and had to watch the Indian to keep from getting killed. The senior Smith came near being a victim of the terrible blizzard in April in 1873. He was some distance from home when the great storm began, and it was with much difficulty that he succeeded in reaching it safely, so blinding was the storm. It was only by the most heroic exertions that the cattle belonging to Mr. Smith were prevented from perishing during that awful storm, which lasted three days and nights. Mr. Smith shared the usual fate during the grasshopper raid, but soon recovered from its effects, and since that famous raid he has not suffered from an entire failure of crop" From: Biographical Souvenir of the Counties of Buffalo, Kearney, and Phelps in Nebraska Containing Portraits and Biographies of all the Presidents of the United States,and of the Governors of the State, also of many of the prominent and representative citizens and sketches of many of the early settlers of these counties. Chicago, F.A. Battey and Company, 1890, page 361.

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John P. Smith's memorial is located at: West Memory Gardens Cemetery, Moraine, Montgomery County, USA.
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Latitude: 39.6866989
Longitude: -84.3028030

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Sarah Fox Smith

(unknow - 1894)

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George Smith

(1833 - 1895)

Philip Smith

(1836 - 1899)

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