These notes were written by Marie Smith on 9 August 1946. Mom (Virginia Smith Tomlinson) got these from someone in the family in the 1980s (probably from Grandpa?).
Family of Neils M and Frances Smith
Father and mother married June - 3 - 1869
Name | Born | Died | Comments |
Niels Mads Smith | 12 March 1841 | Sunday, 21 November 1926 | Born in a town in Denmark near the border with Germany. Had changed his name from Schmidt to Smith before 1894, since his name appears as Smith in a Sanilac County land record book in that year. |
Frances M Smith | 4 February 1851 | 7 December 1919 | SAid to be French, though we don't yet know if that was French-Canadian or French, or American with French parents. |
Anna | 1 June 1870 | Wednesday, 25 June, 1935 | |
Carolina | 27 February 1872 | July 1875 | |
Marie | 12 July 1874 | Unknown. | Twin sister to Louise, below. |
Louise | 12 July 1874 | July 1875 | Twin sister to Marie, above. Died about the same time as Carolina? |
Lina | 19 May 1876 | 26 May 1932 | Death date was originally written as 27, then scratched out and listed as 26, with initial V. (probably Virginia Smith Tomlinson). |
Mads F(or T?) | 3 August 1878 | Unknown. | This was ``Uncle Matt''. |
Niels J | 15 March 1881 | 22 January 1943 | |
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William M | 2 October 1886 | 1 September 1981, | The date and place of death was a later addition, probably by Virginia Smith Tomlinson. |
Amble Edwin | 26 September 1888 | 18 MAy 1980 | My grandfather. |
Children of Niels and Frances M Smith
| Name | Born | Died | Comments |
| Brother Mads' Family |
Wife: | Pauline | 11 November 1883 | Unknown | Marriage date unknown. |
| Margeret | 4 June 1915 | Unknown | |
Brother William's Family |
Wife: | Anna | 30 September 1897 | 2 August 1983 | Marlette, Mi. Time and place of death added later. |
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