Betsy Smith Davis family record, circa 1848.

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Betsy Smith Davis family record, circa 1848.

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Written in an 1848 edition of the Holy Bible are notes on the birth of Betsy Smith's parents, her brothers and sisters, including Jedediah Strong Smith, and of her husband, Edward Davis, and their eight children; with notes of some deaths and marriages. Most of her life was spent in New York, Ohio and Iowa.

4 p. (bound in family bible)

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Davis, Betsy Smith, 1796-1861.

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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...