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Notes for Abbie Lydia SMITH

Abbie was a school teacher.

In May of 2010 the following message was received from Alan Smith of Great Falls, Montana: The wife of James Hiram Barnum, Abbie Lydia Smith, was my father's sister. Zachary Taylor Smith, the father of Abbie, was my grandfather. I have a photo of his wife, my grandmother Adaline, who is Abbie's mother, hanging on my bedroom wall. It was taken before my father Allen Taylor Smith was born in September 1882. Adaline died about a month after my father was born. Sarah Shaffer was the second wife of Adaline's father, James Dallas Townsend. Sarah helped raise Adaline's children, including my father, for a time after Adaline died. Zachary moved to western Nebraska in 1888, leaving Mary (aka Molly) the eldest of their children behind with the two youngest, Sara and Allen. Zachary took three children with him to Nebraska, Abbie, Dallas, and Risk, to homestead near Hemmingford, in Box Butte county, Nebraska. My father, Allen, would have been almost seven years old when Mary (Molly) brought Sara and my dad out to western Nebraska to join the rest of the family in the summer of 1889. Abbie married James Hiram Barnum and they lived close to our home in Crawford, in Dawes county, Nebraska until moving to Salt Lake in the 1940's...I was born in 1937 and I remember going to visit uncle Jim and aunt Abbie on their farm when I was a youngster. Sue Ashby, who is referred to as a source, is the granddaughter of my aunt Abbie, and therefore my distant cousin.

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