First
Again
in 2019 I am attempting to write about family using the themes from
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks by Amy Johnson Crow. In 2018 I did write, using a little over a third of the suggested topics. This year I am
planning to write about an ancestor's sibling whose birthday was
during the week and who I could connect to the theme for the week.
The
first theme in 2019 is “First.” I have chosen Isaac S. Smalley,
a younger brother of my great-grandfather, Lafayette Pierce Smalley.
Isaac
was born on the first day of the first month (January)
in 1866, in Adams County, Ohio, the son of John Wilson and Rachel Ann
(Hemphill) Smalley. Isaac was not their first son, but he was
the first child born after John W. was discharged from the
Union Army at Chattanooga, Tennessee, 28 Oct 1864.
It
was while Isaac was still a baby the family moved north into Clinton
County, Ohio. They were still living there in 1870 when the census
was taken. But somehow Isaac was mixed up with his brother James so
Isaac was shown as 8 years old. It was about 1872 when the family
headed west and settled in Illinois. Then in 1879 they moved farther
west to Saline County, Nebraska and sadly, it was there on 15
September 1879 when Isaac died of typhoid fever, the first child
of John and Rachel to die. He was buried in Atlanta Cemetery in
Saline County. In about 1886 the rest of his family moved again to
Sherman County, Kansas.
You can see a photo of his gravestone on the Find a
Grave website:
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