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Jacob Oscar Smith

Birth
Casey County, Kentucky, USA
Death
8 Nov 1888 (aged 23)
Lincoln County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
McKinney, Lincoln County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Parents: Newton Jasper Smith and Patsey William Chilton.

1st Husband of Mary Etta "Mollie" Terry.
Married, Dec 24, 1885, in Lincoln County, KY.

On the 1870 Jenkins, Casey Co., Ky Census, he is listed as Jacob A. Smith, a 5 year old, Ky native, living with his parents, N. J. and Malissa A. Smith.
On the 1880 Lincoln County, Ky Census, he is listed as Jacob O. Smith, a 15 year old, farm worker, living with his parents, Newton and Patsy W. Smith.

Oscar was murdered and is buried in McKinney Cemetery, McKinney, Ky. (Note, per Dolores Bohn: My Uncle & Aunt told me that it was a dispute over his pigs getting in someone's corn.) My Grandmother, Eva Oscar "Sis" (Smith) Atkins Upton, was only 11 months old when Oscar died.

*Note, per D. Bohn: His 1st cousin, Zora Porter Smith, who is a son of Christopher Coffey "Crit" Smith, is buried beside him. Crit is a brother of Oscar's father, Newton Jasper Smith.
Parents: Newton Jasper Smith and Patsey William Chilton.

1st Husband of Mary Etta "Mollie" Terry.
Married, Dec 24, 1885, in Lincoln County, KY.

On the 1870 Jenkins, Casey Co., Ky Census, he is listed as Jacob A. Smith, a 5 year old, Ky native, living with his parents, N. J. and Malissa A. Smith.
On the 1880 Lincoln County, Ky Census, he is listed as Jacob O. Smith, a 15 year old, farm worker, living with his parents, Newton and Patsy W. Smith.

Oscar was murdered and is buried in McKinney Cemetery, McKinney, Ky. (Note, per Dolores Bohn: My Uncle & Aunt told me that it was a dispute over his pigs getting in someone's corn.) My Grandmother, Eva Oscar "Sis" (Smith) Atkins Upton, was only 11 months old when Oscar died.

*Note, per D. Bohn: His 1st cousin, Zora Porter Smith, who is a son of Christopher Coffey "Crit" Smith, is buried beside him. Crit is a brother of Oscar's father, Newton Jasper Smith.


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