Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 321

JOSEPH J. SMITH, farmer, was born in Chatham County, N. C., April
8, 1818, and is one of the family of Jonathan and Martha (Hackney) Smith,
also natives of North Carolina.  The grandparents of our subject were 
Quakers and natives of Pennsylvania, who soon after the Revolutionary war 
joined a Friends' colony in North Carolina.  Jonathan Smith was born Feb-
ruary 22, 1783, was reared a farmer and had a good education, afterward
becoming a teacher.  He was also a Major of cavalry in the war of 1812.
In 1837, he settled near Monrovia in this State, soon after locating on the
farm where our subject now resides.  He was married in 1807, was a Bap-
tist, a Whig, and died October 24, 1859, his wife February 19, 1867, aged
seventy-five.  Joseph J. Smith was reared by his parents, received a fair
education, and worked as a farm hand for several years.  He came to this
township in 1840 and took charge of the homestead.  March 2, 1854, he 
married Nancy J. Bray, by which marriage he became the parent of three
living sons and four livng daughters.  Except an absence of four years, Mr.
Smith has resided where he now is, on a farm of 80 1/2 acres, solely
acquired by himself.  He raised the first barn in the township, and used
the first thresher and the first separator here operated.  He is an active
Republlican, and has served as Justice twenty-four and as Constable four
years.  He has likewise held many township offices.  He is a public-spirited 
citizen, and was a member of the Central Committee from 1844 to 1874.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Friends' Society.

Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn 

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