Chileab SMITH

Birth:
11 Nov 1765
Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut
Death:
25 Aug 1840
Amherst, Loraine, Ohio
Marriage:
Abt 1788
of Connecticut
Sources:
Ancestry.com
Smith Official DNA & One Name Project
Notes:
                   From the Journal of Amanda Barnes Smith: "My Husband's father, Chileab Smith and my husband's brothers, David and Sylvester, were all baptized, as also Betsy, Sylvester's wife.  When David was baptized, Fanny, my sister (his wife), howled and screamed so that she was heard a half mile, she said she never would eat nor drink until he left the Mormons.  She was as good as her word.  She went eight or nine days until she was just about gone and would not put nor let a drop of anything go into her mouth.  When her husband saw that she would die he sent and had his name taken off from the church record; his father soon followed, so by one woman, two men fell."
Nancy MARSHALL
Birth:
19 Jan 1765
Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut
Death:
5 Dec 1824
Amherst, Loraine, Ohio
Burial:
Kendeigh Cemetery, Amherst, Lorain, Ohio
Sources:
Find A Grave Memorials, #14136256
Notes:
                   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."
Children
Marriage
1
Maria SMITH
Birth:
18 Jun 1790
Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Death:
17 Mar 1819
2
Pearly SMITH
Birth:
23 Jan 1793
Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Death:
 
Marr:
 
3
Warren SMITH
Birth:
14 Jun 1794
Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Death:
30 Oct 1838
Haun's Mill, Caldwell, Missouri
4
Florinda SMITH
Birth:
21 Jul 1795
Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Death:
Notes:
                   NAME: Florinda aka Florence
5
David SMITH
Birth:
20 Mar 1797
Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Death:
30 Apr 1861
Ohio
Notes:
                   NOTE:
From the Journal of Amanda Barnes Smith: "My Husband's father, ChileabSmith and my husband's brothers, David and Sylvester, were all baptized,as also Betsy, Sylvester's wife.  When David was baptized, Fanny, mysister (his wife), howled and screamed so that she was heard a half mile,she said she never would eat nor drink until he left the Mormons.  Shewas as good as her word.  She went eight or nine days until she was justabout gone and would not put nor let a drop of anything go into hermouth.  WHen her husband saw that she would die he sent and had his nametaken off from the church record; his father soon followed, so by onewoman, two men fell."
6
Lucia SMITH
Birth:
10 Jan 1799
Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Death:
3 Feb 1824
Ohio
 
Marr:
 
7
Levira SMITH
Birth:
20 Dec 1801
Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Death:
21 Jan 1803
Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts
 
Marr:
 
8
SMITH
Birth:
22 Jan 1803
Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Death:
22 Jun 1803
Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts
 
Marr:
 
9
Sylvester SMITH
Birth:
28 Mar 1806
Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Death:
31 Mar 1893
Connecticut
Elizabeth FRANK 
Marr:
27 Dec 1827
Chautauqua, New York 
Notes:
                   From the Journal of Amanda Barnes Smith: "Sylvester was a smart and goodman. He was chosen one of the first council in Kirtland, was one ofZion's Camp -- he attained to great height, and knowledge, then fell awayand was lost."
Betsy, his wife was also baptized.  I don't know, but I suppose she fellaway with her husband.

Other possible death date and place: 22 Feb 1880 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, IA
FCID:6328:6299
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Chileab Smith - Nancy Marshall

Chileab Smith was born at Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut 11 Nov 1765. His parents were Chileab Smith and Asenath Marshall.

He married Nancy Marshall Abt 1788 at of Connecticut . Nancy Marshall was born at Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut 19 Jan 1765 daughter of Abner Marshall and Hannah Marshall .

They were the parents of 9 children:
Maria Smith born 18 Jun 1790.
Pearly Smith born 23 Jan 1793.
Warren Smith born 14 Jun 1794.
Florinda Smith born 21 Jul 1795.
David Smith born 20 Mar 1797.
Lucia Smith born 10 Jan 1799.
Levira Smith born 20 Dec 1801.
Smith born 22 Jan 1803.
Sylvester Smith born 28 Mar 1806.

Chileab Smith died 25 Aug 1840 at Amherst, Loraine, Ohio .

Nancy Marshall died 5 Dec 1824 at Amherst, Loraine, Ohio .