Marr. Catherine Teitje in Carroll Co., IL on 25 Oct 1863
Died at 50y, 11m, 5d
Suggested edit: David B. Smith, engaged in real-estate and abstract business at Mt. Carroll, has for a number of years been quite prominent in local affairs, having held for three consecutive terms the offices of Clerk of the Circuit Court and Recorder. He was born in York Co. PA Dec. 29, 1838; and lived there until after he attained his majority. He came to Dixon IL (Lee County) in the fall of 1860, and in the following fall to this county (1861---Carroll County). Not long afterward the Civil War having broken out, he enlisted as a Union soldier Company H, 55th IL Inf., and participated in the Battle of Shiloh, where he was wounded in the left shoulder. He remained in the service until December 1862. Mr. Smith was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court under J.F. Alison in 1870, and the year following was regularly elected to this office and that of Recorder. He was married in October 1863 to Miss Catherine Teitge, of Pennsylvania, who became the mother of four children: Jennie M., Benjamin L., William L., and Harry O. and died at her home in Mt. Carroll in April 1874. Mr. Smith was then married, Oct. 27, 1875 to Miss Etta J. Cooper of Oskaloosa, Iowa. This lady was born in Muscatine Iowa April 5, 1852, and when a child removed with her parents to a farm in Black Hawk County in the central part of the State, where she lived until a maiden of eighteen years. Of this union there have been born three children: George P., Edna J., and Eva M.; of whom are living with their parents. Mrs. Smith is a member of good standing of the Christian Church.
Carroll County Illinois Biographies, p. 979 www.geneologytrails.com/ill/carroll/carrollbios
Contributor: Sherril Tinder (49883290)
David B. Smith served the Union in the Civil War as Private in Company H of the 55th Illinois Infantry & 7th Illinois Cavalry according to his listing in the 1956 Veterans' Honor Roll.
Died at 50y, 11m, 5d
Suggested edit: David B. Smith, engaged in real-estate and abstract business at Mt. Carroll, has for a number of years been quite prominent in local affairs, having held for three consecutive terms the offices of Clerk of the Circuit Court and Recorder. He was born in York Co. PA Dec. 29, 1838; and lived there until after he attained his majority. He came to Dixon IL (Lee County) in the fall of 1860, and in the following fall to this county (1861---Carroll County). Not long afterward the Civil War having broken out, he enlisted as a Union soldier Company H, 55th IL Inf., and participated in the Battle of Shiloh, where he was wounded in the left shoulder. He remained in the service until December 1862. Mr. Smith was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court under J.F. Alison in 1870, and the year following was regularly elected to this office and that of Recorder. He was married in October 1863 to Miss Catherine Teitge, of Pennsylvania, who became the mother of four children: Jennie M., Benjamin L., William L., and Harry O. and died at her home in Mt. Carroll in April 1874. Mr. Smith was then married, Oct. 27, 1875 to Miss Etta J. Cooper of Oskaloosa, Iowa. This lady was born in Muscatine Iowa April 5, 1852, and when a child removed with her parents to a farm in Black Hawk County in the central part of the State, where she lived until a maiden of eighteen years. Of this union there have been born three children: George P., Edna J., and Eva M.; of whom are living with their parents. Mrs. Smith is a member of good standing of the Christian Church.
Carroll County Illinois Biographies, p. 979 www.geneologytrails.com/ill/carroll/carrollbios
Contributor: Sherril Tinder (49883290)
David B. Smith served the Union in the Civil War as Private in Company H of the 55th Illinois Infantry & 7th Illinois Cavalry according to his listing in the 1956 Veterans' Honor Roll.
Marr. Catherine Teitje in Carroll Co., IL on 25 Oct 1863
Died at 50y, 11m, 5d
Suggested edit: David B. Smith, engaged in real-estate and abstract business at Mt. Carroll, has for a number of years been quite prominent in local affairs, having held for three consecutive terms the offices of Clerk of the Circuit Court and Recorder. He was born in York Co. PA Dec. 29, 1838; and lived there until after he attained his majority. He came to Dixon IL (Lee County) in the fall of 1860, and in the following fall to this county (1861---Carroll County). Not long afterward the Civil War having broken out, he enlisted as a Union soldier Company H, 55th IL Inf., and participated in the Battle of Shiloh, where he was wounded in the left shoulder. He remained in the service until December 1862. Mr. Smith was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court under J.F. Alison in 1870, and the year following was regularly elected to this office and that of Recorder. He was married in October 1863 to Miss Catherine Teitge, of Pennsylvania, who became the mother of four children: Jennie M., Benjamin L., William L., and Harry O. and died at her home in Mt. Carroll in April 1874. Mr. Smith was then married, Oct. 27, 1875 to Miss Etta J. Cooper of Oskaloosa, Iowa. This lady was born in Muscatine Iowa April 5, 1852, and when a child removed with her parents to a farm in Black Hawk County in the central part of the State, where she lived until a maiden of eighteen years. Of this union there have been born three children: George P., Edna J., and Eva M.; of whom are living with their parents. Mrs. Smith is a member of good standing of the Christian Church.
Carroll County Illinois Biographies, p. 979 www.geneologytrails.com/ill/carroll/carrollbios
Contributor: Sherril Tinder (49883290)
David B. Smith served the Union in the Civil War as Private in Company H of the 55th Illinois Infantry & 7th Illinois Cavalry according to his listing in the 1956 Veterans' Honor Roll.
Died at 50y, 11m, 5d
Suggested edit: David B. Smith, engaged in real-estate and abstract business at Mt. Carroll, has for a number of years been quite prominent in local affairs, having held for three consecutive terms the offices of Clerk of the Circuit Court and Recorder. He was born in York Co. PA Dec. 29, 1838; and lived there until after he attained his majority. He came to Dixon IL (Lee County) in the fall of 1860, and in the following fall to this county (1861---Carroll County). Not long afterward the Civil War having broken out, he enlisted as a Union soldier Company H, 55th IL Inf., and participated in the Battle of Shiloh, where he was wounded in the left shoulder. He remained in the service until December 1862. Mr. Smith was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court under J.F. Alison in 1870, and the year following was regularly elected to this office and that of Recorder. He was married in October 1863 to Miss Catherine Teitge, of Pennsylvania, who became the mother of four children: Jennie M., Benjamin L., William L., and Harry O. and died at her home in Mt. Carroll in April 1874. Mr. Smith was then married, Oct. 27, 1875 to Miss Etta J. Cooper of Oskaloosa, Iowa. This lady was born in Muscatine Iowa April 5, 1852, and when a child removed with her parents to a farm in Black Hawk County in the central part of the State, where she lived until a maiden of eighteen years. Of this union there have been born three children: George P., Edna J., and Eva M.; of whom are living with their parents. Mrs. Smith is a member of good standing of the Christian Church.
Carroll County Illinois Biographies, p. 979 www.geneologytrails.com/ill/carroll/carrollbios
Contributor: Sherril Tinder (49883290)
David B. Smith served the Union in the Civil War as Private in Company H of the 55th Illinois Infantry & 7th Illinois Cavalry according to his listing in the 1956 Veterans' Honor Roll.
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