History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
627.

JOSEPH H. SMITH was born in Oldham County, Ky., March 28, 1839, two and 
a half miles west of Knottsville.  His father, William Smith, is a 
native of Virginia, and came to Kentucky when a small boy.  Our subject 
came to this county first in 1860, but left in a few months, and lived 
at Lewisport, Ky., until 1865, when he returned to this county.   He has 
resided during that time in and around Knottsville.  He married Miss 
Sarah F. Veatch, daughter of James Veatch (deceased), Sept. 10, 1860.  
They have seven children--William T., James H., Herbert, Walter D., 
Paul, Josephine O. and Daisy A.  Mr. Smith owns 109 acres of land, and 
is engaged in farming and stock-raising.  He is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity.

Smith Veatch
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Oldham-KY VA

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