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JOHN JACKMAN SMITH.T1time“La.eer, Furnished Historical Society Bv His Grandson.member of the 3rd Iowa Cavalry, has *iot traveled much. After his dis-ir i Pi I charge from the army lie remained on y Mon‘ I hjs farm, being disabled on account ofa wound received in the service of ^his country. He was compelled to |andd a a ■ ^ • w » — —- — * ---- — —John Jackman Smith, one of the remove from his farm and is now a early pioneers of Jefferson county, resident of Fairfield. He still car-T# • ■ a v s-* ■ \ t v • a ^ v.^ * a ^ - ** •was born in the state of Virginia in rjes in jlis body a bullet which he re-.the year 1780. His family emigrated • , durjriK his service for his coun- (lrar • 1 . 1 I ~ I nmrtry. .The above was furnished to the I K .to reside there until in the year 1803,1 Jeflferson County Historical Society when he engaged to go with Lewis by H Sullivan, and has been Ito ' Clark on that famous exploring ex- fi]ed • their conection for future ref-erence. The society solicits that ato Kentucky, near Lexington, when he was ten years old. He continuedminpedition up the Missouri river and tothe Pacific ocean, but 011 account of I like history of prominent pioneers be a severe sickness he was prevented furnjshed them.from making the journey and as long as he lived he always regretted thathe failed to go. In 1815 the Smith I torical Society, family emigrated to Ohio, and there he was married in the same year to Rachael Alkire. They continued toreside in Ohio until the spring of I wajteth.”837, when they emigrated to Iowa (then Wisconsin territory). They made the journey with ox teams, and | an^ c°nung. did not arrive until the fall of thatTgetsthatI. D. JONES, .President of Jefferson County His-1te Man Who Waits.Daniel said: “Blessed is ho thatAthatsaySherman said: “Hold the fort, for 11 cb„ft ■year.He first built his log cabin on theCervantes said: shuffle the cards.”“Patience, andmoiJames R. Keene said: “Sit tightsouth bank of Cedar Creek, in Lib-1 ar,d you 11 win out.ETuierty township and continued to residthere with his family about three | a man will only wait, years, when he built a double logDisraeli said: “Everything comes if ItricLongfellow said: “All things come^ w ■ ^• V A ^» W w w mm w — — — — — — — — ——house farther south, and on the edge | round to him who will but wait.” of the prairie on a tract of land owned. j I Earl Harcourt said: “Le bon tempsby the heir of John Bishop, and con- vicndra » (Xhe ood time win come-.4 It A /I A All / A rt ♦ Hi '1 ♦ f \ I '1 A . Itinued his residence at that place until in the year 1865, when he movedMicah said: “I will wait for theto another farm in‘that vicinity. Here God of my salvation; my God willhe remained until he died in Novem-1 *iear meher, 1873, at the age of 93 years.St. Paul said: “But if we hope forHe was an active county officer I that we see not, then do we with pa when this county was organized, at I tience wait for it.the first election of county officers,! Job said: “They waited for me ashe, with Daniel Sears and B. F. Chas-1 for the rain, and they opened their tain, were elected to the office of I mouth wide as for the latter rain.County Commissioners, and it was under their direction that the first survey of 25 blocks (now called Old Plat City of Fairfield) was made inThe Awakening.The editor sat at home in his easythe spring of 1839. It is a matter I chair, his silvery hair illumined byof history that said Board of Com- the glow from the big open fireplace.missioners followed up the surveyor I his knee sat his little granddaugh and his chainmen, and drove the I ter, just going to sleep under thestakes at corners of the lots.soothing influence of a “Bre’r Rab-He was a man of means and prop- I bit story. Well filled book cases erty and at different times purchased I lined the walls while all about werefrom the United States over 5,000 acres of land in this county, but nev-1 comfortable ease.er owned a lot in the city he helped I Jus* then the printer s devil drop-to stake out. He dug down the I Ped a brayer and the editor awakened banks of Cedar Creek and made a I Irom his reverie to find lumself stillcrossing south of this city which is * leaning against the composing i-toncstill known as “Smith’s ford,” and support and gazing at the $2 billnow Smith’s bridge. His son-in-law, Pa*d in advance by a new subscriber. John W. Sullivan, the father of the Exchange.writer, came with his family in the spring of 1838 and next year at the first election for county officers in the new county of JeffersonDiversity of Crops.The green bug pest, which this year was is going to cost the farmers of theelected to the office of Treasurer of southwest hundreds of thousands ofthe county, and afterward held sev- J dollars, may, after all, prove a bless-eral other important offices, and died ing in disguise if it drives them outin the fall of 1847. John Jackson of the grain growing, land skinningSmith was a resident of Liberty town- system of crop cultivation which is s_ ship until his death. He raised four generally followed. True, wheat, oats sons and four daughters. He gave to ‘ and other small grains constitute in-t-ach 300 acres of land. None of his viting crops to raise, because whenchildren are now’ living and but few once put in they require no further- . _ A . « . •of his descendants reside in Iowa.care until they are ripe, but the time His oldest son, Elijah Smith, and!is.near if not already here, when itthree daughters, Eliza Smith, Susannah Davis and Rachel Jerrell’s crossed the great American desert to Oregon in 1852 with ox teams and were seven months on the journey. Nonewill be necessary to diversify.Thought Ride Sufficient Reward.An official of the Brooklyn street car lines tells the following story:of them ever returned to Iowa. His “There was a new conductor put on daughter Lydia was the wife of John hurriedly one Monday morning, with-m a W mm A a a . — A m _ A — — « * «Hiram Smith, who sold his farm and emigrated to Harrison county,'Iowa, and died there 10 years ago; Carlisle Smith, w-ho continued to reside on the farm his father gave him until hisW. Sullivan. His other children were: out being informed fully as to details.if* ____n 1 t 1 t ft • _ r. «Sullivan; Edwin Smith sold his farm to Jefferson county, and is now occupied by the “County Farm. IJk emigrated to Wapello county and diedOn Saturday afternoon as he was sitting in the barn, a fellow conductor said to him, “Why don’t you go up to the office and get your pay?’ The new man looked up in surprise.death, as did also his daughter, Lydia ‘What, do they pay you wages, too?’ T~* 1 * r- m tat* r L _ • . • 11he asked.”Went Long Without Food.How long can an animal live with-1904,county and one in Idaho; Dan’l and William Sullivan and their sister, Mrs. Warner, of Batavia, still reside in Jefferson county, and a brother, Geo. W. Sullivan, in Van BurenLast year a dog was imprisoned for 29 days in a rabbit warren at Guildford, England, yet was dug out alive. During the siege of Metz, in the Franco-Russian war, a I dog was confined without food orcounty. The above named are the 1 water for 39 days; while Dover rec-only grandchildren residing in Iowa, ords have the story of a pig which, William H. Sullivan is one among buried alive by a fall of cliff, came the oldest natives having been born out all right at the end of 160 days.in the county in 1840, and is now the owner of the land on which he was born, and except the time he was aDrydock Cut Out of Rock.At Port Florence, on the shore of
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Fairfield Tribune
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Wed, Sep 04, 1907
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