Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed.,1885,
Webster Co.

JOHN W. SMITH was born June 3, 1847 in Union County, Ky., and is a son of
Hiram H. Smith who was born September 12, 1807, in Lincoln County, now
Boyle County, Ky.  His parents moved to the neighborhood at the present
site of Nebo, and bought 700 acres of land, where they engaged in farming.
About 1827 the father of our subject moved to Union County, and engaged in
farming, but on account of ill health gave up farming and engaged in
merchandising.  In 1840 he was elected to the legislature and re-elected in
1860.  In January, 1861, he removed to Dixon, and was elected circuit
clerk, but failed to qualify on account of military interference.  He was
appointed by the court master commissioner and trustee of the jury fund,
and was at one time president of the Farmers Bank of Webster County.  He is
now living a retired life at Dixon.  John W. Smith, at the age of fourteen
years, hired out as a farm hand, and worked in that capacity about two
years.  He then lived on a rented farm about one year, after which he
bought twenty acres of land and continued farming, and, as means would
allow, added to his possessions, and now owns about 600 acres of improved
land, with a comfortable residence and out-buildings.  He enlisted, in
1861, in the Confederate army, and served about one year.  Mr. Smith was
married in February, 1864, to Mary Mooney, of Webster County.  This union
has been blessed with eight children - four sons and four daughters.  Their
eldest son, Charles M., is now attending a second term at the St. Louis
Medical College, with a view of becoming a member of the medical
profession.

Smith Mooney
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Union Lincoln Boyle

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