Everett Bancroft Smith

7 Feb 1858 - 17 Jan 1914

Father: Robert Smith

Mother: Martha E. Beem

Biography ##Everett Bancroft Smith a widely known farmer and stockman and proprietor of a magnificent farm of three hundred and seventy two acres near Poland Clay county was born February 7 1858 on a farm one and one halfmiles northwest of that place being a son of Robert and Martha Elizabeth Beem Smith both natives of the Old Dominion His father who was also a successful farmer and stock dealer was born near Fancy Hill Rockbridge county Virginia March 12 1825 and died on the 15th of January 1889 The paternal grandfather John Smith was a native of Ireland who cameto America settling in Virginia in the latter portion of the eighteenth century and died in that state in the year 1827 His wife nee Mary AGore died in 1841 Mr Smith's mother Martha Elizabeth Beem was born April 6 1833 a daughter of Levi and Sarah Johnson Beem the former entering land and settling in Owen county Indiana upon the present site of the town of Spencer Mr Beem died in July 1888 and his wife followed himJanuary 14th of the following year Everett B Smith was educated in the common schools of Clay county and he has always been a farmer and stock raiser residing continuously on the farm on which he was born and reared He now owns three hundred and seventy two acres of fine improved land and is in every way one of the county's most substantial and honored citizens In politics he is a prominent Republican and is a member in fine standing of the Knights of Pythias of which order he has been an active trustee for a period of fourteen years He and his wife areboth members of the Rathbone Sisters an auxiliary of the fraternity mentioned The parents as well as their children are members of the Methodist church of Poland of which Mr Smith has been one of the trustees for about eight years On August 16 1888 Mr Smith married Miss AlizoumaBell Foreman of Poland Indiana born July 13 1869 daughter of Henry Lee and Pauline Halfpenny Foreman Her father was a son of Lee Foreman who came to Clay county from his native state of Ohio about the year 1865 and has been dead for a number of years Mr and Mrs Everett B Smith have become the parents of two children Amma Alpharetta born May 29 1890 and Prentiss Decalb Smith born March 26 1894--“A History of Clay County, Indiana: Closing the First Century's History of the County, and Showing the Growth of Its People, Institutions, Industries and Wealth, Volume 2,” William Travis, Lewis Publishing Company, 1909.

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