Birth calculated from age at death.
Married 18 Feb 1807, possibly at Shoreham, VT per AGBI.
Migrated to Amherst, Lorain Co., OH in the fall of 1832.The trip was mostly by water. His family joined him in the spring of 1833.
"I"MRS. L. A. OSBORNE, a resident of North Amherst, was born in Orwel, Vt., daughter of Ira W. and Lucy Smith, also natives of Vermont, where they were married, and where ten children were born to them.
In the fall of 1832 Ira W. Smith came west to Lorain county, Ohio (the trip being made for the most part by water), and purchased a considerable amount of land about one mile from the present village of North Amherst. Later on the rest of the family joined him; but he was not fated to long enjoy his new home, for in the spring of the following year, just six weeks after the arrival of his wife and children, he was killed by a falling tree while out in the woods making a roadway through, on his land, which is now called the Middle Ridge. He was in his fifty-second year at the time, and his sudden taking off was a terrible blow to the family; his widow died about twenty years ago at the age of eighty-one years. They had a family of ten children, of whom the following is a brief record: (1) Lucy married Daniel Cuts, and settled in Windham, Portage Co., Ohio, where she died. (2) Ira W. was a landowner, farmer and stockman at Kankakee, Ill., and died there leaving a numerous family. (3) M. D. was a stockman and landowner at Wellington, Ohio, where he died leaving a large family. (4) Sarah Ann married a Mr. Streator in Vermont, and died in Licking county, Ohio. (5) Mariette is the wife of Orlum Winton, of North Amherst, Ohio. (6) Russell was a ranchman, and died at his residence in the city of Stockton, Cal. (7) John (deceased) was a farmer in Iowa. (8) Jane married Samuel Vining, and died in Illinois. (9) Charles died in Kansas. (10) L. A., the subject proper of this memoir, born in 1832, was married in 1850, at the age of seventeen, to William Walker, who was born in the State of New York and reared at North Amherst, Ohio. He died sixteen years after marriage, leaving three children, viz.: Zuleina L., wife of A. V. Kent, of Toledo, Ohio, by whom she has three children: Loula L., Grace E. and Amos Ross; Charles, a farmer on Middle Ridge, Amherst township, Lorain Co.. Ohio (he has one child, Bertie); and William K., who died in October, 1892, aged thirty-two years."
(Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio: Chicago, J.H. Beers and Co., 1894, p. 1010-11, bio of Mrs. L.A. Smith Walker Osborne.)
Married 18 Feb 1807, possibly at Shoreham, VT per AGBI.
Migrated to Amherst, Lorain Co., OH in the fall of 1832.The trip was mostly by water. His family joined him in the spring of 1833.
"I"MRS. L. A. OSBORNE, a resident of North Amherst, was born in Orwel, Vt., daughter of Ira W. and Lucy Smith, also natives of Vermont, where they were married, and where ten children were born to them.
In the fall of 1832 Ira W. Smith came west to Lorain county, Ohio (the trip being made for the most part by water), and purchased a considerable amount of land about one mile from the present village of North Amherst. Later on the rest of the family joined him; but he was not fated to long enjoy his new home, for in the spring of the following year, just six weeks after the arrival of his wife and children, he was killed by a falling tree while out in the woods making a roadway through, on his land, which is now called the Middle Ridge. He was in his fifty-second year at the time, and his sudden taking off was a terrible blow to the family; his widow died about twenty years ago at the age of eighty-one years. They had a family of ten children, of whom the following is a brief record: (1) Lucy married Daniel Cuts, and settled in Windham, Portage Co., Ohio, where she died. (2) Ira W. was a landowner, farmer and stockman at Kankakee, Ill., and died there leaving a numerous family. (3) M. D. was a stockman and landowner at Wellington, Ohio, where he died leaving a large family. (4) Sarah Ann married a Mr. Streator in Vermont, and died in Licking county, Ohio. (5) Mariette is the wife of Orlum Winton, of North Amherst, Ohio. (6) Russell was a ranchman, and died at his residence in the city of Stockton, Cal. (7) John (deceased) was a farmer in Iowa. (8) Jane married Samuel Vining, and died in Illinois. (9) Charles died in Kansas. (10) L. A., the subject proper of this memoir, born in 1832, was married in 1850, at the age of seventeen, to William Walker, who was born in the State of New York and reared at North Amherst, Ohio. He died sixteen years after marriage, leaving three children, viz.: Zuleina L., wife of A. V. Kent, of Toledo, Ohio, by whom she has three children: Loula L., Grace E. and Amos Ross; Charles, a farmer on Middle Ridge, Amherst township, Lorain Co.. Ohio (he has one child, Bertie); and William K., who died in October, 1892, aged thirty-two years."
(Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio: Chicago, J.H. Beers and Co., 1894, p. 1010-11, bio of Mrs. L.A. Smith Walker Osborne.)
Birth calculated from age at death.
Married 18 Feb 1807, possibly at Shoreham, VT per AGBI.
Migrated to Amherst, Lorain Co., OH in the fall of 1832.The trip was mostly by water. His family joined him in the spring of 1833.
"I"MRS. L. A. OSBORNE, a resident of North Amherst, was born in Orwel, Vt., daughter of Ira W. and Lucy Smith, also natives of Vermont, where they were married, and where ten children were born to them.
In the fall of 1832 Ira W. Smith came west to Lorain county, Ohio (the trip being made for the most part by water), and purchased a considerable amount of land about one mile from the present village of North Amherst. Later on the rest of the family joined him; but he was not fated to long enjoy his new home, for in the spring of the following year, just six weeks after the arrival of his wife and children, he was killed by a falling tree while out in the woods making a roadway through, on his land, which is now called the Middle Ridge. He was in his fifty-second year at the time, and his sudden taking off was a terrible blow to the family; his widow died about twenty years ago at the age of eighty-one years. They had a family of ten children, of whom the following is a brief record: (1) Lucy married Daniel Cuts, and settled in Windham, Portage Co., Ohio, where she died. (2) Ira W. was a landowner, farmer and stockman at Kankakee, Ill., and died there leaving a numerous family. (3) M. D. was a stockman and landowner at Wellington, Ohio, where he died leaving a large family. (4) Sarah Ann married a Mr. Streator in Vermont, and died in Licking county, Ohio. (5) Mariette is the wife of Orlum Winton, of North Amherst, Ohio. (6) Russell was a ranchman, and died at his residence in the city of Stockton, Cal. (7) John (deceased) was a farmer in Iowa. (8) Jane married Samuel Vining, and died in Illinois. (9) Charles died in Kansas. (10) L. A., the subject proper of this memoir, born in 1832, was married in 1850, at the age of seventeen, to William Walker, who was born in the State of New York and reared at North Amherst, Ohio. He died sixteen years after marriage, leaving three children, viz.: Zuleina L., wife of A. V. Kent, of Toledo, Ohio, by whom she has three children: Loula L., Grace E. and Amos Ross; Charles, a farmer on Middle Ridge, Amherst township, Lorain Co.. Ohio (he has one child, Bertie); and William K., who died in October, 1892, aged thirty-two years."
(Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio: Chicago, J.H. Beers and Co., 1894, p. 1010-11, bio of Mrs. L.A. Smith Walker Osborne.)
Married 18 Feb 1807, possibly at Shoreham, VT per AGBI.
Migrated to Amherst, Lorain Co., OH in the fall of 1832.The trip was mostly by water. His family joined him in the spring of 1833.
"I"MRS. L. A. OSBORNE, a resident of North Amherst, was born in Orwel, Vt., daughter of Ira W. and Lucy Smith, also natives of Vermont, where they were married, and where ten children were born to them.
In the fall of 1832 Ira W. Smith came west to Lorain county, Ohio (the trip being made for the most part by water), and purchased a considerable amount of land about one mile from the present village of North Amherst. Later on the rest of the family joined him; but he was not fated to long enjoy his new home, for in the spring of the following year, just six weeks after the arrival of his wife and children, he was killed by a falling tree while out in the woods making a roadway through, on his land, which is now called the Middle Ridge. He was in his fifty-second year at the time, and his sudden taking off was a terrible blow to the family; his widow died about twenty years ago at the age of eighty-one years. They had a family of ten children, of whom the following is a brief record: (1) Lucy married Daniel Cuts, and settled in Windham, Portage Co., Ohio, where she died. (2) Ira W. was a landowner, farmer and stockman at Kankakee, Ill., and died there leaving a numerous family. (3) M. D. was a stockman and landowner at Wellington, Ohio, where he died leaving a large family. (4) Sarah Ann married a Mr. Streator in Vermont, and died in Licking county, Ohio. (5) Mariette is the wife of Orlum Winton, of North Amherst, Ohio. (6) Russell was a ranchman, and died at his residence in the city of Stockton, Cal. (7) John (deceased) was a farmer in Iowa. (8) Jane married Samuel Vining, and died in Illinois. (9) Charles died in Kansas. (10) L. A., the subject proper of this memoir, born in 1832, was married in 1850, at the age of seventeen, to William Walker, who was born in the State of New York and reared at North Amherst, Ohio. He died sixteen years after marriage, leaving three children, viz.: Zuleina L., wife of A. V. Kent, of Toledo, Ohio, by whom she has three children: Loula L., Grace E. and Amos Ross; Charles, a farmer on Middle Ridge, Amherst township, Lorain Co.. Ohio (he has one child, Bertie); and William K., who died in October, 1892, aged thirty-two years."
(Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio: Chicago, J.H. Beers and Co., 1894, p. 1010-11, bio of Mrs. L.A. Smith Walker Osborne.)
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