me, was highly successful and
became popular. He removed, about 1830, to Illinois, then became
a surveyor and locator of public lands, farmer, etc., and was killed
by a railroad train at Sumner, Illinois, when about eighty years
of age, leaving a large number of grown children.

Rev. Milton J. Miller (now of Geneseo, Illinois), grandson of Samuel
Smith, though a farmer boy, early resolved to acquire an education
and enter the ministry. His resolution was carried out. He
graduated at Antioch College; attended a theological school at
Cambridge, Mass., became a minister of the Christian Church, later
of the Unitarian, and was for about one year a chaplain in the
volunteer army (110th Ohio), and distinguished himself in all
relations of life.

Dr. Hezekiah Smith, also son of Samuel, became somewhat eminent as
a physician, and died at Smithland, Shelby County, Indiana, in 1897.

Abram, though once in prosperous circumstances, through irregular
habits and the inherited disposition to rove over the world, became
poor, and sometimes, when remote from his family and friends, in
real want, yet he, the youngest of the four, lived past the
traditional family fourscore years, dying poor (near Lawrenceville,
Illinois), but leaving children and grandchildren in many States
of the West, who had become, at his death, or since became,
distinguished as soldiers and eminent citizens. He was a man of
most cheerful disposition, and whatever his circumstances or lot
were he seemed content and happy.

Five of Dr. Peter Smith's daughters (besides my mother) lived to
be married. Sarah married Henry Jennings; Elizabeth, Hezekiah
Ferris; Nancy, John Johns; Margaret, Hugh Wallace, and Rhoda, Dr.
Wm. Lindsay, but each died comparatively young. They also each
left children; and their grandchildren, etc., are now numerous and
many of them highly esteemed citizens, also scattered widely over
the country.

Two others of Dr. Smith's children (Catherine and Jacob Stout)
lived only to the ages of fifteen and seventeen years respectively.

But Peter Smith was not the sole head of this remarkable and long
wandering family, nor the repository or source of all its brains
or good qualities of head and heart.

He was married, as stated, to Catherine Stout, in New Jersey, whose
family was theretofore, then, and since both numerous and widely
dispersed, and many of them more than usually prominent or celebrated
in public or private life.

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