Abner MARSHALL

                   Cemetery information says:
SMITH Nancy MARSHALL, consort Chileab, Jan 19, 1765- Dec 5, 1824, 59yLucy, dau Chileab & Nancy, d Feb 3, 1824, 25y
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Following was contributed by: Nancy, a descendant of Nancy Marshall whosent me an email on 4/17/04

Excerpt from Amherst Our Town Pub 1960

Chiliab Smith came to Amherst [OH] in 1815 and started one of the first taverns in the area on Telegraph Road. Pioneer families often stayed at the Smith tavern while their homes were being built or finished.

Berkshire Genealogist, Vol 11, No 3 there is a listing of all of those that left Berkshire County. Here's the part that lists the SMITHS. We don't know if any of these other Smith men are related to Chileab/Warren

SMITH, Arad; Mass to Amherst; m. Salome Elmer of Virginiust, Vermont in1799. He died in 1859
   SMITH, Chiliab; Tyringham to Amherst [OH]. He died in 1847. Children: Warren,  David, Sylvester, Lucia and Florinda. Sylvester moved to Council Bluffs,I A
   SMITH, Jesse; Mass to Amherst, 1815.
   SMITH, Warren; Tyringham to Amherst, 1815. m. Amanda Barnes. He was a son of Chiliab Smith, killed in a raid on Nauvoo. A Mormon.
Tyringham seems to have been founded by Shakers and there was a Smithfarm there as early as 1762.

Excerpt from Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Lorainand Huron, Ohio.
J.H. Beers

"In 1814 they immigrated to Lorain county the trip being made with oxwagons; and it took them five days to cut a road from the present site of Elyria through the woods to what afterward became Amherst township (for it was not organized till April 1817) where they arrived October 16,1814. Here they settled upon land for which he (Chileab) had traded property in the East to the CT Land Co. He was by trade a tailor, at which he worked in his new home during intervals in his farm work... As an exhorter in the M.E. Church, he held frequent meetings in the neighborhood of his home and in his own house. When old age came upon him he turned his farm over to his children, who also inherited the good nameof one of the best and earliest of the pioneers. He had settled on little Beaver Creek, four miles west of where is now Elyria, and opened the first tavern in that vicinity."