SMITH-D. K. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

D.K. SMITH, farmer and stock raiser, Veedersburg, is a son of Silas and Clarrissa (Chapman) Smith. The former came to Fountain county with his parents, Cetus and Nancy (More) Smith, in 1824. Cetus Smith was a native of Connecticut and when a young man went to New York, where he married and then moved to Ohio, where he rented land of General Harrison, which he farmed five years, and then came and settled in Fountain county, where he died in 1840. His wife Nancy More, moved to Kansas where she died. Silas, son of Cetus, was born in 1816. Shortly after coming to Fountain county he married and settled on Sec. 31, where he lived till his death, in 1852, except five years of this time he lived in Iowa. Clarrissa (Chapman) Smith, a native of Kentucky, and daughter of Joshua and Rachel Chapman, settlers of Fountain county in 1824, then residents of Iowa five years, then returned to Fountain county, where they both died in 1856, the father aged seventy-six, the mother aged eighty. Silas Smith raised a family of five children, three of whom are living, D.K., America E. Laura E.. D.K. lives near the old town Chambersburg. He was married in 1864 to Alcinda Walker, daughter of Wesley and Margaret Osborn, early settlers of Fountain county. By this marriage D.K. has three children; James C., Charles W., and Silas M. He and his wife are members of the order of Christians known as Disciples, at Coal Creek church. He has a fine farm of 266 acres, all under fence and well improved. D.K’s mother an old soldier of the cross and member of the church, at Coal Creek, lives with him. D.K. is and ever has been a staunch republican a well to do farmer and good citizen. His early education was such as he could procure in the district school. While he is a successful man in business he is a lover of literature and, moral development in society.

File Created: 2007-May-01