Person:Benjamin Smith (11)

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Benjamin SMITH
b.26 Sep 1804 Harrison Co., VA
d.9 Apr 1879 Madison, Co., IA
m. 29 Jan 1789
  1. William SMITH1790 - 1819
  2. Samuel SMITH1791 - 1877
  3. Amos SMITH1793 - 1862
  4. George SMITH1795 - 1875
  5. Tamar Smith1798 - 1876
  6. Tory SMITH1800 - 1876
  7. Abraham Smith1802 - 1803
  8. Benjamin SMITH1804 - 1879
  9. Phebe SMITH1807 - 1870
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Name Benjamin SMITH
Gender Male
Birth? 26 Sep 1804 Harrison Co., VA
Death? 9 Apr 1879 Madison, Co., IA


  Married Elizabeth Pearson in 1825.
  Moved to vicinity of the new Friends settlement at Ackworth in Warren Co., IA. By about 1854 they moved further west to Bear Creek. Mentioned several times in D.B. Cook's "Memoirs of the Quaker Divide." At the time of the Separation amon Friends in Bear Creek Quarter in 1877, he cast his lot with the Conservative Friends, although most of his children went with the Progressives.