Smith-Jones family papers, 1832-1953.

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Smith-Jones family papers, 1832-1953.

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Mostly papers of Peter S. Jones (1835-1865), younger son of Sally (Smith) Shiffer Jones (1791-1871), eldest sister of Jedediah Strong Smith, whose life was spent mainly at Ashtabula, Ohio. With these are papers of Bernhard Reichert, who married Peter Jones's widow and reared their children in Kansas, and of Stella (Doty) Smith Hare, granddaughter of Peter S. and Eliza (Prescott) Jones, reflecting extensive genealogical investigations respecting the Smith, Jones, and cognate families. Among the papers are a warranty deed of 1866 to Eliza P. Jones, signed by Sally (Smith) Jones; three other documents relating to land transactions, 1832-1864; wedding certificate of Peter and Eliza Jones, 1859; seven letters to Peter Jones, 1851-1855, by his cousin Sara Eliza (Simons) Spearman; one by his nephew Will Boyle, 1859; one by his cousin Frances Smith (later Mrs. W.G. Carleton), 1863; six by his brother William Jedediah Jones, written en route to and from California, 1854-1856; 25 additional letters by W.J. Jones, 1863-1864, while serving in Sherman's army; 22 letters by Bernhard Reichert, 1861-1865, concerning the same campaign; and two letters from soldier friends, H.W. Pollis (1861) and R. Porter, undated. Mrs. Hare's papers include photostats of a family record from the Bible of Clarissa Weed (Shiffer) Tower, eldest daughter of Sally Jones; three letters from E.D. Smith, 1917; two of her letters to her mother, Frances Helen (Jones) Doty, 1917; letter by Eliza P. Reichert to Frances Doty, 1885; eight by Sarah E. Allcock to Mrs. Doty and Mrs. Hare, 1885, 1915-1917; and other family letters by Jesse Doty, P.S. Hilleboe, and Carrie (Munsell) Green, 1917-1953, with miscellaneous obituaries and other clippings.

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Hilleboe, P. S.,

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Doty, Jesse,

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Smith, Frances,

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Reichert, Bernhard U.A.

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Reichert, Eliza P.,

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Pollis, H. W.,

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Smith, E. D. (Ezra Delos), 1854-1926

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Porter, R.,

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Spearman, Sara Eliza Simons,

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Jones, Sally Smith Shiffer, 1791-1871,

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Hare, Stella Doty Smith

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Jones, William Jedediah,

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Green, Carrie Munsell,

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Jones, Peter S., 1835-1865

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Boyle, Will,

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Carleton, W. G., Mrs.,

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Allcock, Sarah E.,

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Jones, Eliza Prescott,

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Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799-1831

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Jedediah Strong Smith was born June 24, 1799 in Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York. He was the son of Jedediah Smith of New Hampshire and was the eldest of fourteen children. Jedediah's early childhood was spent in Ohio where he received and English and Latin education. At thirteen he became a clerk on a Lake Erie freighter where he learned business methods and met traders returning from the Far West. Jedediah became ambitious for an adventure to the wilderness and he went to St. Louis around...