... Eli Smith married Sarah Kreighbaum November 20th 1840. They had
eleven children, eight sons and three daughters.
He was born in Frederick County Maryland, as eleven years old when
his father went to Canton Ohio where he remained until old enough to
go to his brother Samuel at Greentown and learn the tanning trade.
While there he met his future wife, He moved to New Baltimore,
Stark Co. Ohio and engaged in the Tanning business where he
remained for a number of years. In the year 1854 he bought the old
homestead in Plain Township consisting of 160 acres where he
engaged in agriculture and where he reared his family. He is still the
owner of the same farm. He is a member of the Lutheran Church as
are his family also. ...