Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 480-481 [McCracken]

     CHARLES SMITH, one of the German-American residents and successful
business men of Paducah, Kentucky, was born in Germany, May 13, 1836. 
His parents were John and Katherine (Ellwager) Smith, and both were born
in Germany, where the father died at the age of seventy-seven years, and
the mother died at the age of ninety-two years, although prior to that
time she had enjoyed good health.  By occupation the father was a wine
maker, and was very successful as a business man of his locality.
     Charles Smith was educated in his native land, but left it in 1855
for America, and upon reaching this country located in Louisville,
Kentucky, entering the employ of Charles Fitz, a butcher.  There he
remained until 1858, when he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, to engage with
Charles Bremer in the same line, but after a year he went to New
Orleans and made there a short stay.  The yellow fever breaking out, he
removed to Paducah in that same year, and being stricken down, lay in the
marine hospital for several weeks, until his recovery, when he
entered the employ of Henry Theobalt, a butcher, and remained with him
until 1861; then he embarked in the same line for himself, in which he
still continues, being now one of the leading butchers of Paducah.
     In 1863 he married Miss Katherine Bayer, a daughter of John Bayer,
a well known farmer of McCracken county, Kentucky.  The children born
to Mr. and Mrs. Smith are as follows: John; Henry; Fred; George;
Louise, a widow; Lena, the wife of Christ Kolb; and Rosa, wife of Isaac
Anderson.  Mr. Smith has long been recognized as one of the leading
representatives of the commercial life of Paducah, and is a man who
inspires fullest confidence, as well as draws to him friends in all
walks of life.

Smith Ellwager Fitz Bremer Theobalt Bayer Kolb Anderson
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Germany OH

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