"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND
 BIOGRAPHICAL."  
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY 
& CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.  
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MADISON TOWNSHIP
PAGE 356

RUFUS B. SMITH was born in Harrison Township, this county, October 16, 1845,
and is the second of nine children born to Robert and Cynthia (Stotts) Smith, natives of
Ohio and Indiana respectively, and of English extraction.  He was reared on the home 
farm, and was educated at the common schools.  February 7, 1865, he enlisted in Com-
pany E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, served seven months,
and was honorably dischaged in September of the same year.  February 3, 1868, he 
married Harriet P. Paxton, a native of Tennessee, and daughter of William and Mary
Paxton.  The following children were born to this marriage:  Anna G., Guy O. (deceased),
Dovie, Nellie, Robert Walter and Bertha.   Mr. Smith is the owner of 495 acres of well-
improved land, and is largely engaged in the live stock trade--growing and buying, and
shipping extensively to Pittsburgh and Indianapolis.  On his land is also one of the town-
ship schoolhouses.  In politics, Mr. Smith is a Republican, and he and wife are members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn 

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