Indiana Family Group Sheet for Joseph Eddy SMITH Family *********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Louis STARK Email address: stlouis72@comcast.net Husband: Joseph Eddy SMITH Birthdate: 16 Nov 1851 Birthplace: Madison, Jefferson, IN Death date: 27 Mar 1907 Place of death: Portland, Multnomah, OR Father: Joseph SMITH Mother: Margaret W. MATHER Marriage date: 14 Mar 1877 Marriage place: Hodginville, LaRue, KY Wife: Nancy "Nannie" Elizabeth SCOTT Birthdate: 26 Jun 1860 Birthplace: Hodgenville, LaRue, KY Death date: 31 May 1932 Place of death: Oregon Father: John L. SCOTT Mother: Josephine RODMAN CHILDREN Child No. 1: Josie Eddy SMITH Sex: F Birthdate: 1878 Birthplace: Hodginville, LaRue, KY Death date: 1916 Place of death: , OR Marriage date: Marriage place: Oregon Spouse's name: Emil STARK Child No. 2: Maggie May SMITH Sex: F Birthdate: 6 Nov 1880 Birthplace: Hodginville, LaRue, KY Death date: 16 Mar 1959 Place of death: Portland, Multnomah, OR Marriage date: 1 Jan 1902 Marriage place: Portland, Multnomah, OR Spouse's name: Louis STARK Child No. 3: Lindsey Afton SMITH Sex: M Birthdate: 1883 Birthplace: LaRue County, KY Death date: 25 May 1952 Place of death: , OR Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Alice JACOBSON Child No. 4: Pliny Cleland SMITH Sex: M Birthdate: 1885 Birthplace: LaRue County, KY Death date: unknown - disappeared Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 5: Seatta Rodman SMITH Sex: F Birthdate: 1888 Birthplace: Kentucky or Oregon Death date: 1 Mar 1962 Place of death: Portland, Multnomah, OR Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Charles COOK: Herman NEWTON; Robert STEEL Child No. 6: Carl Scott SMITH Sex: M Birthdate: 1890 Birthplace: Kentucky or Oregon Death date: 9 Aug 1946 Place of death: Portland, Multnomah, OR Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Annie CRAMER Child No. 7: Fannie Young SMITH Sex: F Birthdate: 1893 Birthplace: Kentucky or Oregon Death date: 13 May 1935 Place of death: Portland, Multnomah, OR Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Robert J. VANCE Child No. 8: Marshall Daniel SMITH Sex: M Birthdate: 1898 Birthplace: Kentucky or Oregon Death date: 18 Nov 1948 Place of death: Portland, Multnomah, OR Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Myrtle Mae MCLERAN Documentation: Interviews with descendants/survivors; Newspaper funeral notices; census; personal research at Genealogical Forum of Oregon; Multnomah County, Cedar Mill, Beaverton and Libraries; previous research by Golda Hall, and Helen Graham Silvey. - Union Cemetery of Cedar Mill (Washington County, OR) interments include Joseph SMITH and Margaret MATHER; Joseph Eddy SMITH and Nannie SCOTT; Josie SMITH and Emil STARK; Maggie SMITH and Louis STARK; Lindsey SMITH (no marker); Seatta SMITH and Robert STEEL; Carl SMITH (no marker)and Marshall SMITH (no marker). - Born in Jefferson County, Indiana, Joseph Eddy Smith, at about age two, migrated with his family to St. Joseph, Missouri, and from there across the plains to Oregon, where his parents, Joseph SMITH and Margaret MATHER SMITH, homesteaded in Multnomah County (Donation Lan Claim #3418), about five miles northwest of Portland, bordering Washington County. As a young man, Joseph Eddy SMITH returned to his mother's birthplace of LaRue County, Kentucky from Oregon,.There he married Nancy "Nannie" Elizabeth SCOTT, 14 March 1877, Hodgensville, LaRue County, KY. There they started a family, then sometime later (after 1885) they returned to Cedar Mill, Oregon, (Multnomah & Washington counties) near his parents original land claim.