Welty Smith Family History                                                                       July 2005

125 year summary 

 

 The parents and their siblings are in bold italics.  Their children are in bold face. 

 The grandparents are underlined.

 

  3 Jan. 1849   Margret Ann Rinaman, born, in Baltimore, Maryland.  See the James S. Wilson

                      family event log for details on her family

23 July 1849   Welty Smith, born in Lincoln County, Missouri.  See the William Smith Sr family

                      event log for details on his family.

             1849  Cholera causes a few deaths in the county.

                                   

 

10 May 1856   Margret A. Rinaman and her family arrive in Lincoln Co. Mo.

 

            1860   Welty is 11 years old.

            1862?  The corn Welty and Britton picked and cribbed is taken by Federal troops.

 

    1865 1866   A mild form of Cholera is in the county.  No deaths are reported.

 

  1 Mar 1870   Welty Smith marries Margret Ann Rinaman, Lincoln Co. Mo.

                        Married at Peter Rinaman's home, the log cabin? Welty is 20 yrs. old.

10 June 1870   The census shows they began married life living with his parents.

15 June 1870   The census shows they are living with her parents.  Welty and Margret

                        have managed to get counted twice.  They are apparently moving back

                       and forth between their parents places.   They will raise a family of eleven

                       children, eight sons and three daughters.

                       There will be one set of twins, a girl and a boy.

28 Dec. 1870   William Peter Smith born, Lincoln Co.

10 May 1872   Burton Lee Smith born, Lincoln Co.

             1873   A Cholera epidemic kills at least 26 people in the county.

16 Mar 1874   The families of Welty Smith, Artilla Smith Rinaman, and Druscilla

                        Smith Slavens go to Kansas to homestead.  The wagons have a

                        Kansas or Bust" sign painted on them.  Artilla's son Frank, and

                        daughter Annie, about 1 and 3 years old respectively make the trip.

18 May 1874   Mary Ella Smith is born in Kansas. Her obituary says she was

                        born in Troy, so the date of trip to Kansas may be off a year.

  7 Nov 1874   The families of Welty, Artilla, and Druscilla, arrive back in

                        Lincoln Co.  The sign on the wagon says "Busted"  All the

                        crops they had planted were eaten by grasshoppers.

 

            1875   Welty rents Lincoln Co. Coal Company land to farm. It lies SW

                       of the William Smith Sr home place, and N of the John Carwell farm.

                      The children will go to Perkins school.  Perkins school, No. 3 according

                       to the 1878 land map, is on land owned by Waddy and Perkins.

                       The school sits just beyond the SW corner of the William Smith Sr. farm.  

                       It is not known when it was founded.  Welty and siblings may have

                       gone to school there.  Artilla's children will almost certainly go there.

.                      In later years, i.e. 1916 to 1924, Elbert's children, Lillian Francis and

                       Elberta Kinion, and Will Rinaman's children will make up most of the class.  

10 Feb 1876   Orion Russell "Orie" Smith born, Lincoln Co.

 7 Feb. 1877   Welty brings John Wilson, Margrets uncle, home for three days of nursing.

                       John will die of consumption, (tuberculosis) in July 1877.

11 Feb 1877   Welty takes John Wilson to his home in West Prarie.  Welty will later bill

                      John's estate for $7.00 for driving John around, and $6.00 for three days of nursing.

 2 July 1877   Welty's father, William Smith Sr. dies.  Lincoln Co. Mo.

16 Feb 1878   Oswell "Ossie" "Ozzie" Bredell Smith born, Lincoln Co. Mo

19 Dec 1879   Verner Conrad Smith born, Lincoln Co. Mo.

 

            1880   Welty is 31 years old.   

 1 June 1880   Welty's wife Margret has gotten listed twice in the census again.

                       Her dad has told the census taker she's 19 and living at home.

15 Nov 1881  First snow; snow will stay on the ground until 10 March 1882.  Butchered meat

                      stays frozen all winter.

 2 Feb 1882   Welty buys wheat from the Barlows.

 5 Feb 1882   Some of Welty's boys are sent to stay at the Barlows, because momma is

                      having another baby.

 8 Feb 1882   Theron Welty Smith born, Lincoln Co.

10 Feb 1882  The Barlows come to see the new baby.

12 Mar 1882  The Barlows visit the Welty Smith family.  It's Sunday.

2 May 1882   The first train on the St Louis and Hannibal Railroad makes a run from

                      Troy to Hannibal

 8 July 1882  Start of a drought that will last until the end of Sept.

End of Sept. 1882  The drought is broken by a three day rain, that causes a great flood, ruining

                     what's left of the crops.  Bridges on the Short Line are washed out.

15 Oct 1882  Welty takes his family to visit the Barlows on a Sunday.

 9 Feb 1884   Harvey Elbert Smith and his twin Nannie Ethel born, Lincoln Co.

 

22 Oct 1886   Britton Smith and family, have come down from Audrain, Co.

                       to visit Welty and Artilla and his mother. "Gabriel"

 5 Nov 1886   Welty is in Troy buying ten pair of boots for his sons, and himself,

                       He also picks up a pair of shoes for his wife. "Gabriel"

24 Apr 1887   Amos Herbert Smith is born, Lincoln Co. Mo.

23 Mar 1889   Leola Folsom "Falsie" Smith born, Lincoln Co Mo.  The name

                       Folsom  was given in honor of President Cleveland's wife.

            1889   William P. Smith graduates from high school, the Troy Christian

                       Institute, originally the Lincoln Academy.

 

            1890   William P. Smith is reading medicine with Doctor D.W.Tice. He will also

                       read with Dr S.R. McKay in Troy.  His basic education was in the public schools

                       of the county, and the Troy High School.  He will get his Medical education at

                      the Beaumont Medical College in St Louis.

                       Welty is 41 years old.  Margaret has joined the Methodist church.  Orion is

                       playing a game called "Old Sow" at school which is like Polo

                       without the horses.

11 May 1890  Lydia Carwell, Orion's future wife, receives a "catechism" certificate from the

                      Zoar Chapel at Indian Camp, Lincoln County, Mo.  It is printed in German.

24 Oct 1890   K. H. Shaper moves his sawmill to John Carwells, to saw wood,

                       for the addition Welty Smith wants to build on his house this fall.

                       Troy Free Press, by "Gabriel" Weltys pen name? "Gabriel" sure liked

                       to blow his own horn.  Linns Mill or Slavens Chapel items.

            1891   Elbert and Nannie Ethel have started school.  Its very crowded and

                       Elbert has to share a desk.  He plays hand games with his seat mate, which

                       the teacher interprets as fighting.  Both get whippings.                                                                                                                                                                                                

            1892   Burton begins alternating between teaching school and going to school.

                       He has gone to County and Troy public schools.  He will attend Buchanan

                       College, Kirksville Normal, and the University of Missouri, as his

                       teaching allows.  This will continue through 1898.  He won the gold

                       medal in the essay contest his freshman year at Buchanan College.

                       This makes him suspect as the author of at least some of the Gabriel articles.

  5 Feb 1892   Welty's mother Mary "Polly" Welty Smith dies. Lincoln Co. Mo.

15 Apr 1892   Dr William P. Smith removes a bead from his little sisters ear. "Gabriel"

                       Note that Gabriel has granted his son his medical degree a year early.

20 Mar 1893   Welty buys two shares, for $20, at the subscription meeting for Buchanan

                       College, which will be the new High School.  Artilla's husband Joseph buys

                       one share for $10.

   June 1893   William P. "Uncle Doctor" Smith graduates from the Beaumont Medical College

                      in St Louis.  A second source called this the Missouri Medical College in St Louis.

                      Welty goes down for the graduation ceremony at the old Beaumont Medical College

                     Sounds like the institution had a name change while he was there.

21 July 1893   The summer session of the Lincoln County Institute, held for teacher training

                       has begun.  It is on the site of the old Troy Grammer School, and may be in

                       the same building.  Amos Rinaman is on the Board.  Students include Burton L.

                       Smith, J. F. Rinaman, and Wm Howell.                                                          

           1894?  At some point in their youth all the boys except Ossie study telegraphy.

                       Theron and Verner, will work as telegraphers.  The jobs will be

                       with the railroad.

  5 Jan 1894   Welty sells ten mules to men from Bowling Green and makes $700.

                       Troy Free Press  "Gabriel" Same issue; Welty Smith and

                       John Carwell returned from Arkansas.  Had a pleasant trip, but

                       were not favorably impressed with all the mountains.

12 Jan 1894   Dr William P. Smith serves on a board at Mexico, to pick a cadet to

                      send to West Point. "Gabriel"  Troy Free Press

17 Jan 1894   Orion buys the textbook "American Mental Arithmetic for his class at

                      Buchanan College.

 2 Feb 1894   Welty and Artilla have been to West Prairie to celebrate Peter

                      Rinaman's, 79th birthday.  Twenty nine descendants were present.

                      Troy Free Press

 9 Feb 1894   Welty visits Audrain, Co. to see Britton and Columbus and check

                      out the possibilities of buying a farm.  Miss Annie Rinaman

                      is visiting Miss Ella Smith at Welty's farm.  Troy Free Press.

16 Feb 1894   Welty rides his famous white horse "Charley" about 30 miles through

                       snow drifts coming back from Audrain County.  He started six miles

                       N of Wellsville at 8 o'clock, and was home by 4.  Troy Free Press

12 Oct 1894   Welty is back from visiting Britton and Columbus in Audrain, Co.

                       He took Amos and Folsom "Folsa" with him.  Troy Free Press.

           1894   Welty will found his home place at about this time,

                      on land a little further E, and due S of his fathers farm.  The children

                      will now be educated, through the 8th grade, at Hammond School,

                      a one room log cabin schoolhouse.  The school, No 2, in the 1878 atlas,

                      is just over a mile SSE of the home place.  Verner's children, Vernette

                      Carwell and Merrill Welty will also attend this school

26 Oct 1894   Orion is attending Buchanan College in Troy.  Riding his horse to

                       school each day.  Troy Free Press.  This is probably the first year

                       the school is open.  One of his jobs during his teen age years was

                       to take grain to the Hanni steam mill to be ground, about 4 miles from

                       home.  The mill once stood on the Harvey farm which Orion will later

                       buy, and make his home place.  The mill was moved to Troy, in 1869,

                       and renamed the Hanni mill.  It took 16 yoke of oxen

                       to haul the steam boiler to Troy.  A second job was to take his

                       grandmother, Sophia Wilson Rinaman to mass at the Catholic Church

                       in Millwood, in the wagon, on the weekends he spent at their farm.

23 Nov 1894   Burton and a buddy have spent the weekend in Wright City.

                       Both were very favorably impressed with the young ladies.

                       Linns Mill news, Troy Free Press. 

                       On the same date is an item listing Ossie, Verner,

                       Theron, and Elbert Smith, Fred, George, and Henry Carwell,

                       and others as members of the "Coon Creek Possum Hunters"

                       On Saturday night this group, fortified with tobacco, and corn

                       cob pipes, set out in search of wild animals.  Someone follows

                       and throws sticks at them a few times.  Thinking this to be

                       the possums after them the boys are all home before their folks

                       have gone to bed. "Gabriel"

21 Dec 1894   The mud is so deep Orion is walking to school each day to give his

.                      horse a rest.  "Gabriel"

28 Dec 1894   Orion, Burton, Frank and Will Rinaman, Artilla's sons and a

                       friend go rabbit hunting.  The one rabbit they saw took six shots

                       and three good dogs to do in.  "Gabriel"

            1895  Uncle Doctor is the County Coroner.  He will hold the post till 1899.

  1 Feb 1895   Burton and J.F. Rinaman, "Artilla's son "get cold sleighing.  They get to

                       a good fire before they freeze.  "Gabriel" Troy Free Press.

22 Mar 1895   Welty sells five fine hogs.  Burton is about to close his school in

                        the Brown district for the year.  Artilla and family visit Welty and

                        family on Sunday.  "Gabriel" Troy Free Press

24 May 1895   Burton, Orion, and Frank and Will Rinaman, and a friend go fishing in

                        Cuivre River.  Its to high, so they explore Howell's cave, crawling back

                        to a room they call "bear track", where family names dating back into

                        the 1700's are inscribed on the walls.  "Gabriel" Troy Free Press

28 Jun 1895    Burton is teaching at Schroer School, Orion at Elmore School near

                       Hawk Point.  The schools have staged two spelling contests.

                       Burton's students win both matches.  Troy Free Press.

 8 Nov 1985   Welty has trouble with his potatoes.  He kicks a hill and two bushels

                       escape before he can get them under control.  Troy Free Press                               

 6 Dec 1895   Schroer school forms a debating society.  Burton is apparently still

                      the teacher.  Burton and J.F. Rinaman, Artilla's son attend the Teachers

                      Association meeting, at Mexico Mo, during the Christmas break.

                       Troy Free Press

            1896    Burton is taking the "Teachers Course" at the University of Missouri,

                        presumably during the summer.  U. of Missouri archive data.

            1896?  Orion is teaching at Schoer School.

17 June 1896   Dr William P. Smith marries Eugenia Allen, Troy, Mo.  Eugenia

                        is the first person to graduate from Buchanan College, having

                        arrived in Troy with three years of schooling in Virginia, and

                        finishing in Troy, the first year Buchanan College opens.  Another source says

                        15 June.  Uncle Doctor is a active Democrat, and a member of Troy Lodge

                        No. 34, A.F.& A. M., of which he is a junior warden, and also a member of Troy

                        R. A. Chapter No. 85.

14 Aug 1896   Dr William P. Smith becomes a partner in the Bragg Drug Store,

                       with E. H. Thurman, and W. S. Bragg.  His Doctors  office is situated over the

                       drug store on Main Street.  Troy Free Press.

17 Nov 1896  Burton is teaching school at Silex.  He has 28 kids, another teacher has 32,

                      and one of his is a incorrigible boy.  He's going to try one more time with him,

                      then he's either out of school or he's going to maul the stuffing out of him.  He's

                      checked with the schools directors, and they say go ahead, and if he can't handle him,

                      they can.  He says he saw Uncle Bill?, and he was coming to Welty's, Sunday. 

                      William Rinaman.  Peter and Prof. Baker have been to see him.

                      Uncle Dr? or Peter Rinaman?  The Welty Smith family dog is named Wolf.  He's

                      worried that his brothers have destroyed his fiddle.  Silex has a creamery that he has

                      visited twice.  This is his first year at Silex.

            1897   Burton is an instructor at Buchanan College.

      1897,98?  Burton takes special courses at the Normal School at Kirksville, Mo.

                       probably during the summers.  Troy Free Press, 10 March 1899 item.

 3 Sept 1897   Burton was appointed a County School Commissioner, on 21 August,

                       and says he will enter Buchanan College in the fall, and stay until

                       he finishes.  Buchanan College News, and Troy Free Press.

                       He is called Professor Smith and is a member of the Senior Class

                       at Buchanan, and of the State Teachers Assn.  The Peoples Version

                       October 21, 1898, No 8.

 3 Sept 1897   Dr William P. Smith is a practicing physician, surgeon, and Coroner

                       in Troy.  Troy Free Press.  He has a cow skin, he uses as a lap warmer,

                       when out making calls in the winter.

29 Oct 1897   Peter and Sophia Rinaman, Margret's parents, of West Prairie, Mo.,

                       are visiting their children, Welty's wife and Artilla's husband.

                       Troy Free Press.

           1898   Burton attends Buchanan College in Troy.  He apparently is

                      teaching some classes. This is probably when the family starts

                      calling him Professor. 

                      Verner attends Buchanan College for several years.  He will teach in the

                       Lincoln Co. school system for a few years.  He will work in

                       the telegraph office at Troy, and at Hannibal for several years.

31 Aug 1898   Orion has broken his left collarbone, in what he says was an

                       unavoidable accident.  He and Lydia Carwell decide they won't try

                       to go to the county fair.  Orion expects to be in shape to teach school,

                       when it starts.

     Sept 1898  Orion asks Lydia Carwell to marry him.  They will keep their engagement

                       secret for over two years, but the families guess what's going on.

 

10 Mar 1899  Burton runs for a seat on the County School Commission.  

                       Troy Free Press.

20 Mar 1899   Orion is finishing up a school year.  He has been to visit his

                       Uncle Joseph Rinaman, and is planning on going to the

                       wedding of Annie Rinaman, his double cousin, and Robert Brown.

 2 May 1899   Burton loses the election.  He is still attending Buchanan College.

                       He will teach at Whiteside next year.  "Gabriel".

22 Mar 1899   Orion is courting Lydia Carwell.  Many letters are exchanged.

                        Lydia's sister, Anna, has discovered boys.  It will be awhile before

                       Verner convinces her, he's the one.

24 Mar 1899   The Troy Free Press reports that they have printed sale bills for

                        Welty Smith and John Carwell.  For sale: a jack, and their fine horse

                        "Great Western" one of the best bred animals in the county.  The animals  

                        can be seen at the John Carwell farm.  Dr William P. Smith amputated

                        Mr Dougherty's foot, at the County farm.  It had been badly frozen. 

.                       Troy Free Press

28 July 1899   Dr William P. Smith and wife attend church at Slavens Chapel.  "Gabriel"

                       Welty and Joe Slavens are leaders in the Southern Episcopal Methodist

                       Church at Slavens Chapel.  It is said that Welty Smith could deliver the

                       most articulate prayer of anyone in the history of the church.  "A Harvest of

                       Memories", a history of the Hawk Point area.

14 Sept 1899   Orion and Amos Rinaman go fishing in Cuivre River.  They are seining.

                        On the second pull they get 40 lbs of fish.  Orion takes the biggest one,

                       11 lbs, home to Peter Rinaman.  Peter's memory is going and he calls

                       Orion the teacher, and doesn't realize he's his grandson.

18 Sep 1899   Burton and Orion buy two calves from Sophia Rinaman for $30.

                       Sophia doesn't want to wean the calves because the signs aren't right. 

                       Orion insists, but the way the calves act convinces him Sophia is right.

                       Orion is staying with Peter, Sophia, and Laura Rinaman,

                       during the week, while he teaches.

29 Sep 1899   Orion is teaching at Schroer.  He has 29 students.  "Gabriel"

  6 Oct 1899   Welty is sowing rye and timothy.  "Gabriel"

20 Oct 1899   "Ozzie" "Ossie" is working for William Rinaman near Olney.  "Gabriel"

                       The Whiteside Literary Society is reorganized.  Burton is vice

                       president.  The question for debate "Resolved that the United States

                       was justified in fighting the Filipinos"  Burton is one of two on the

                       negative side.  The Society meets every Friday night.  "Gabriel"

23 Oct 1899   Orion makes a date with Lydia Carwell to go to the debate.

                      Orion is on a committee to draft a constitution for the debating society.

 3 Nov 1899   Last week's debate did not turn out very well, so the Society met

                       Saturday, and adopted a constitution and by laws, that they hope

                       will be obeyed.  "Gabriel" Troy Free Press

 8 Dec 1899   The Union Hall Debating Society is meeting.  The champions are

                      Orion Smith for the affirmative, John McCain for the negative.

                      The topic; Resolved that Washington deserves more credit for

                      defending America, than Columbus does for discovering it.

                       Welty and Margret are off to Olney for the second marriage of Margret's

                       brother, William H. Rinaman, to Miss Williams of Olney.  Troy Free Press.

28 Dec 1899   There has been another debate and Orion is not happy with the result.

     Dec 1899   The most disastrous decline in the history of the New York Stock

                       Exchange hits.  The effect on the family is unknown.

 

            1900   Welty is 51 years old.  Buchanan College, a private high school in Troy, has 100

                        students enrolled.

16 Feb. 1900  Theron copies, or writes a poem for school.  Orion ends up with it.

11 May 1900  Ossie and Burton are both near Renfrow, Grant County, Oklahoma,

                       Territory.  This is just south of the Kansas line, near the middle of the state. 

                       They are working for different bosses and get together on Sundays.

                       Verner is studying at the Institute, getting ready to teach.  Verner, Orion, and

                       Burton will all teach in Lincoln County schools the next term.  Burton plans to

                       bring Orion a horned toad.  He has already salted down a horned toad, wants

                       a centipede, a tarantula, and a rattlesnake.  He's apparently driving a team, and

                       plowing corn.  He's been offered another job in the fields at $1.50 a day.  He

                       warns his brothers to be careful in the river, and to take care of his gun.

11 Sep 1900   Mary Ella is talking to Lydia about Orion.  They go to church together.

24 Sep 1900   Orion is teaching school.  Based on his letters, it appears that he is

                       teaching at school #2, which based on the landowners name in 1860, would

                       be Palmer school.  Palmer School was 6 miles north of Hawk Point. 

                       School # 4 is about the same distance away to the NE,

                       so the identification is not positive.  He is boarding at his grandparents

                       Peter and Sophia Rinaman's house.  Laura Rinaman is also

                       at home.  Peter has become senile and doesn't know Orion.

                       Ossie takes Mamie Early and Rozella Giles to church. 

                       Welty's wife, Margret talks with Lydia at church.  Theron has been

                       to see Otha Giles, but she went to church with her dad.

 2 Oct 1900   Welty, Margret, and Mary Ella are going to visit the Rinamans,

                      to pick up some calves and visit Orion.

 8 Oct 1900   Ossie has been to church with the Carwells.  One of the Carwell

                      neighbors has had a hand cut off in the corn shredder.

16 Oct 1900   Orion has visited his uncle Joseph Rinaman, and compared notes

                      with Florence Rinaman, who is also teaching.

21 Oct 1900   Ossie is at the Carwells, wanting to take Anna to church in Hawk Point.

                       The Carwells and Smiths are going to help each other pick the corn crop.

                       The Smith corn is described as being on the river, so Welty has either

                       rented or bought some presently unidentified land in the Cuivre River bottoms

                       north of the William Smith Sr home place.

                       Welty visits the Carwells in the evening.

22 Oct 1900   Theron , Elbert and Amos, are at the Carwells, to help pick corn.

28 Oct 1900   Orion is supposed to act as a clerk at the upcoming election.  He plans

                       to let Ossie have the job, as he needs money.  Ossie has brought up

                       some hay.  They go fishing, but catch nothing.  Out of curiosity,

                       Orion goes to the Catholic church service at Millwood.  He gets invited to

                       a dance at the church, by one of his students.  Orion says he

                       does not dance, being a good Methodist.

18 Nov 1900   Orion is visited by Verner, Cora, and Mabel Rinaman, at Peter Rinaman's.

                       They spend the night.  Cora and Mabel are William H. Rinaman's

                       daughters, and Peter's granddaughters.  Mabel is sick.

20 Nov 1900   Fred Carwell, Lydia's brother, writes Orion to tell him Lydia is very

                       sick with congestive chills.  Uncle Doctor is treating her.

27 Nov 1900   Mary Ella comes to check on Lydia.  She brings the news that Troy

                       beat Bowling Green in football 27 to 6.  Elbert apparently played.

                       Orion, Theron, Nannie Ethel, and George and Anna Carwell go to

                       Troy for the game, which is the last  of the year.

28 Nov 1900   Most of the Carwells have gone to prayer meeting at John East's home.

 3 Dec 1900   Orion goes to visit Verner, who is teaching and living with the William

                       Rinaman family, 9 miles from Orion's school.  He spends the night with them.

                       William Rinaman is believed to be living near Silex, but may be at Olney.

10 Dec 1900   Mary Ella has been at the Carwell house helping Lydia with a quilt.

11 Dec 1900   Theron, Nannie Ethel, George and Anna Carwell, and Will and Ada Rinaman,

                        have all been to church.  Welty has been down at the Carwells.

16 Dec 1900   Peter Rinaman dies about 8 in the morning.  Orion has been helping,

                       and has just left the house to get Peter's son Amos, when it happens.

21 Dec 1900   Folsa's letter to Dear Old Santa.  "I want some candy, peanuts, and an orange,

                       a little stove, abc book, and some little things to cook in, and some

                       firecrackers, a ring, a pretty doll dress, a bracelet, a stick pin with a little

                       horn on it, and a good story book."  The boy Folsa will marry, Eddie Bohmer,

                       "wants some candy, and some peanuts, and some reasons, and some orenge

                      and a slate pencil and a square lead pencil"  He has a sister Mattie.

                       Elbert's letter:  "Dear Santa Claus, I want you to bring me a football. 

                       I. will close. Your little friend."

                       Ethyl's letter.  Dear Santa Claus,  "I will write you a few lines to let you know

                       what I want for Christmas.  I want you to bring me some candy, some

                       peanuts, a pair of rubbers, and a bunch of firecrackers.  Your little friend."

                       Elbert and Ethel, the twins, are 16, Folsa is 11.  Elbert is on the football team

                       at Buchanan College, he plays either quarterback or guard.   This is more

                       Smith humor showing up.  Ethel is taking music lessons and becomes

                       quite proficient.     Troy Free Press, Dec 21, 1900, Vol23, No 27. 

                       Also contains a nice picture of Dr W.P. Smith.  The Bragg and Smith Drug Store

                      ad lists dolls, toys, books, albums, brushes, solar and cuff boxes, glove and

                      hankerchief boxes, jewel cases, puff boxes, handle pens fountain pens, cigar cutters,

                     Archirena boards, Crokinole boards, medallions, and baby sets, 

31 Dec 1900   Lydia and Anna Carwell, walk to Welty's to help Mary Ella quilt.

                       Ossie is visiting Orion at the Rhinamans, but goes to bed early.

                       Orion sits up by himself, writing to Lydia, and vows to give up tobacco.

                       Ossie and Orion belong to the Woodsmen lodge.

           1901   Verner Smith is teaching at Duncan School. 

                      There are three Rinamans in his class of 26.   

 2 Jan 1901   Welty, Mary Ella, and Nannie Ethel attend the prayer meeting

                     at the Carwells.

 6 Jan 1901   Ossie has come to spend a week at the Rhinaman's with Orion.  Orion

                      spends Sunday morning while the Rhinaman's are at mass, comparing

                      the Catholic bible with his, and checking out the Catholic mass book.

14 Jan 1901   Orion has proposed to Lydia Carwell, and she's accepted.  He's

                      teaching so they can only get together on weekends, if the weathers

                      not to bad.  Uncle Doctor is treating the neighbors for colds and pneumonia.

19 Jan 1901   Verner and Cora Rinaman stop by the Peter Rhinaman's to visit Orion.

20 Jan 1901   Welty drops by the Carwell house to check on Lydia, and pass on news

                      about Orion.  One of the neighbors has died of pneumonia.  Orion taps

                      two sugar maples and drinks the sap.

           1901   Welty collects the entire family, puts them in their Sunday best, and

                      takes them to town for a family portrait.  Someone insists the family dog

                      should be in the picture.  Since Burton is holding the dog, he is the

                      prime suspect.  All the group pictures of the family include the dog.

                      The photo is printed in The People's Version,                             

        .             Dec 1902, Jan1902 issue. 

30 Jan1901   Verner invites Orion to visit.  Verner is living at William Rinaman's.

                     and teaching school nearby.

 7 Feb 1901   Orion is planning on talking to Lydia's parents about getting married.

                      Lydia wants to listen.

12 Feb 1901   Lydia Carwell has been to town to buy the material for her wedding dress.

                       She also got a pretty hat, gloves and shoes.  Lydia's letters during the

                       courting are full of religious activity, her brother Fred is a local preacher,

                       reports of sickness, Lydia has been sick much of the time, and

                       comments on Anna's activities.  There is some older sister disapproval

                       evident in some of the comments.

13 Feb 1901   Burton has invited Orion and Verner to visit him.  He wants to show off his

                       school.  Burton is teaching, at Whiteside.  Burton says if they come he'll

                       furnish the cigars, to celebrate Orion's coming marriage.  Burton indicates this

                       is the last year he'll teach in Lincoln County.  Orion informs the Rinamans that

                       he is marrying Lydia.   They are not surprised.

10 Mar 1901   Orion R. Smith marries Lydia Wilhelmina Carwell, at the Carwell home,

                       Lincoln Co.  Mary Ella is a witness. They buy the old Harvey place 3 miles

                       N of Troy.  The 1860 census shows that the place had a slave cabin.

                       Orion raises hybrid seed corn, early in his farming career to sell for seed.

                       Lincoln County is hit by drought.

    Sept 1901   Verner is teaching at Palmer school.

 2 Dec 1901   Orion and Lydia have a son, Henry Welty Smith.  Uncle Doctor will deliver

                      their three babies.  Orion brings "Aunt Catherine", a black lady out to stay, and

                      help Lydia out with Henry.

  7 Jan 1902   Carrie Carwell has written Lydia, asking how her little nephew, Henry is doing.

                      She says Adeline thought Henry looked awful ugly when he made a mouth like

                      he was going to whistle.  Welty Smith has told John Carwell that Henry is

                      getting awfully fat.  Carrie wants to visit them again.

   Sept 1902  Orion is teaching at Carter Hall School, just north of his farm.

 3 Dec 1902   Anna Carwell is going to Central Wesleyan College, in Warrenton, as is

                       her brother Fred.  She writes Lydia that although she dates, she'll

                      "keep all my heart for some little farmer nearer home". 

                      This sounds like Verner.  She's started wearing glasses,

                       because she has crossed eyes, and has trouble practicing

                       the piano without them.

 3 Dec 1903  Orion and Lydia have a daughter, Marguerite Mabel Smith.

           1904?  Theron is teaching in the Lincoln Co. School System.  He will go to

                       St Louis and work as a telegraph operator for a while, before returning

                       to Lincoln County to farm.  Elbert begins teaching in the Lincoln Co

                       schools.   He will teach nine years.     

10 Feb 1904  Orion and Lydia get a invitation to the wedding of William England Smith to

                      Estelle Mae Paris.  This is  Christopher Columbus Smith's son. 

                      The invitation is from Perry, Mo.

30 Dec 1904   "Prof." Burton L. Smith contributes a long article to the Troy Free

                        Press, about his life in the Indian Service, in Pipestone Minnesota.  He 

                        is very proud of the work the government is doing to help the Indians

                        adjust to modern life.  He becomes a Superintendent of Indian Schools

                        during his career.  He also appears to have been assigned to the White

                        Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota, during this time.

 

22  Feb 1905   Burton L. Smith marries Anna C. Lynch.   Welty Smith Bible.

Spring 1905    Someone in the family has been given a scholarship pin by Buchanan College.

                       Amos is 18, and other of his effects came into Orion's possession, so it

                       was probably his.

 6 Sept 1905   Oswald B. Smith marries Lillie Lampley.  They established a

                       home on a farm near Troy.  After 1913 he moves to St Louis, and works

                       for the U.S. Government at a munitions plant.  At some point he

.                      may have engaged in the candy business.  Ossie is the only brother

                       that did not teach school.

27 Dec 1905  Orion and Lydia continue their tradition of having December babies.  They have

                      a new daughter, Alma Smith.

           1906?  Harvey Elbert Smith is teaching in the Lincoln Co. School system.

                       He is known to have taught at Duncan School.  His last three years

                       of teaching he was the Principal at the Hawk Point School.  Then

                       he turned to farming.

23 June 1906  Commencement is held at the Riggs Institute, a Indian School at Flandreau, South

                       Dakota.  A number of visitors from the Pipestone reservation attend the graduation

                       and baseball games that occurred during commencement.  Burton is apparently

                       one of the visitors as he sends a copy of the schools paper, "The Weekly Review"

                       home.

           1906?  Orion Smith serves on the Carter Hall School Board.

                       The school was located about a mile north of the farm.

                       Orion's last year of teaching was at this school.  Both of his daughters

                       will later teach at this school.

26 Dec 1906   Verner C. Smith marries Anna "Annie" C. Carwell, Lydia's sister,

                        Lincoln Co. Mo.  He will buy a 93 acre farm on Welty's west boundary.

                        By 1926 he has added 80 acres to his holdings.  Annie is an accomplished

                        musician, and will teach piano in her home.  Nannie Ethel is also

                        teaching piano at Welty's.

             1907   There is panic in the stock market, and banks are threatened.

22 May 1907   Theron W. Smith marries  Bessie Brumby.  Theron is writing

                        Orion's children, and inviting them to come see him.

      Feb 1908   Theron divorces Bessie.

     May 1908   Theron's first child, James Ernest Smith is born.  Theron questions his

                        paternity.  Orion and Vernon think the boy is a Smith,

                        so they help the ex wife and child.  This causes a rift between Theron,

                        and his brothers Orion and Verner.

     May 1908   Amos graduates from Buchanan High School.  He is 21.  He will

                        teach for a while, then take a Civil Service Job in Washington D.C.

                        Corp of Engineers?  He would like to go to the University of

                        Missouri, but doesn't have the money.

19 July 1908    Orion receives a book "God and Government" as a keepsake from

                       John H. Carwell's estate, i.e. his father-in-laws library. 

19 Jan 1909     Harvey E. Smith is teaching in or near Hawk Point.  He writes Orion,

                        who he obviously thinks is good at math, and challenges him to solve a set

                        of problems.  He tells him to put on his best mathamatical clothes before

                        he tries them.  They obviously have been trying to stump each other over the years.                                                                           

17 Mar 1909   Oswald buys 97 acres 1 mile SW of the home place.

   April 1909   Orion is sworn in as a Director of Carter Hall School.

                       Henry's attendance records call it Hall School after the Hall family. 

                       By 1911 thru 1914, the paperwork sometimes says Hall School, or Hall-Carter

                       School.  Apparently both the Hall and Carter families made significant land or

                       other donations, to make the school possible.  At some unknown time it became

                       known as the Carter Hall School.

Fall 1909        Burton has moved to Riverside California to teach at the Sherman Institute

                      for Indians.

 7 Nov 1909   Harvey E. Smith marries Hattie H. Kinion, Lincoln Co. Mo.

                       He will buy 80 acres 1/2 mile NW of the Home place and farm.

 1 Dec 1909  Orion has entered Corn in the Missouri Corn Growers show at Troy. 

                      His entry scores 87 points.

 

            1910   Welty and his wife are 61 years old.  Ellie, Theron, Nannie Ethyl, Amos, and Folsa

                       are still living at home.  Theron is running the farm, Nannie Ethyl is

                       teaching music in the home, and Amos is teaching school.

  Jan 1910       Orion has sent corn to the State Corn Show at the University of Missouri.  It is

                       sponsored by the Missouri Corn Growers Association, in conjunction with the

                       College of Agriculture at the U. of Missouri.

26 Apr 1910   Orion has hired a black man, Louis Campbell, age 54, to help out with

                       the planting.  The family is still living in the old Harvey house, so I don't

                       know where they have given Louis a place to stay.  He may be coming out from

                       town each day.

May-June 1910  Burton sends home two copies of "The Sherman Bulletin" a publication of the

                      Sherman Institute for Indians, in Riverside, California.  They are dated 25 May,

                      and 1 June.  In the 25 May issue, it appears the Smith family entertained two young

                      lady teachers at Sunday dinner.  It also appears that the whole family, and the Institute

                      Supervisor and others were entertained the next Sunday, at Dinner by two young

                      lady teachers.  Mrs B. L. Smith helps give a young lady a kitchen shower.  In the

                     1 June issue Burton is revealed as "The Principal Teacher" and is visiting city schools.

                     He also goes to the Sherman Institutes farm, where all the students are buried who

                     died while attending school.  He gives the Memorial Day address.

    Aug 1910   Burton takes his children,Margaret Francis and Burton Lynch fishing at Sunset Beach,

                       Calif. and poses with a string of small fish.

  4 Apr 1911   Orion is elected Chairman of the Carter Hall School Board.  This continues

                       a long association of Orion, with the descendants of Leannah Smith Creech,

                       and the Bohmer family, which Folsa will marry into.  They supply

                       several teachers and many of the officials for Carter Hall School.

12 Apr 1911   Burton is working for the Department of the Interior, United States

                       Indian Service, Sherman Institute.  His letterhead lists him as

                       Principal Teacher.  He talks about maybe going trout fishing with another

                       superintendent in southern California, during vacation.  He invites Orion

                       and family to visit.

 2 May 1911   Burton is thinking about transferring to Chilocco, Oklahoma.  He

                       doesn't think he will bring the family home to Mo. on vacation.  To far and

                       to expensive.  They would have to spend half the vacation traveling.

                       He is getting ready for Commencement Exercises.  He sounds as though

                       he may be the school superintendent.

 5 May 1911   Mary Ella announces by letter to Orion that she and Dick Bennett

                       are going to take the train to Bellflower on Sunday the 7th, and get

                       married.  They will come home on the afternoon train, and go to his home.

                       They don't want any "to do at all".  She would like Orion and family,

                       to come see them Sunday night.  Nannie Ethel and Folsa will go to

                       Bellflower with them, so it will look better.

 7 May 1911   Amos is in Ness City, Kansas.  His letters will usually contain some

                       information about baseball or football.

 7 May 1911   Mary Ella Smith marries Richard T. Bennett, at Bellflower, Mo.

                       This is his second marriage.  He has three children from his

                       first marriage.  They live 2 miles SSE of the home place.

     Dec 1911   Dr W. P. Smith is elected Marshall at the Troy Masonic Lodge.

                       Orion is a 32nd degree Mason.

15 Dec 1911   Mary Ella's husband, Dick Bennett has announced he will run

                       for sheriff.  He ran in 1907 and came in second.  He is a farmer.

                       He will also serve as Troy's City Marshall for a time.

Fall 1911        Orion has entered the Lincoln County Fair.  He has taken first in "Best White,

                       and Best Yellow" categories.

Jan 1912         Orion has entered his corn in the Ninth Annual, State Corn Show in Columbia. 

                       It is sponsored by the Missouri State Corn Growers Association.  He has won 6th

                       place in Class No.3, white Corn, northeast Section.  He wins $2.00.

 6 Mar 1912   Theron W. Smith marries Essie Mae Trail, Lincoln Co.

                       For part of their married life they live at Davis, Lincoln Co.

 2 Apr 1912   Orion is elected Secretary, and Director of Carter Hall School

                      for three year term.  Orion's children are walking the mile to school.

                      One very cold winter day Marguerite will get some toes frostbitten

                      from making this jaunt.

12 Aug 1912   Nannie Ethel Smith marries Earl Welsh, Lincoln Co.

  9 July 1913   Nannie Ethel and Earl buy Oswald's farm 1 mile SW of the home place.

10 Aug 1913   Dr William P. Smith is president of the first Chautauqua

                       meeting held in Troy.

21 Feb 1913  Henry, Marguerite, and Alma, all receive certificates, for being "neither tardy

                      or absent" for five months, from the Hall-Carter School.  It's Probably the end

                      of the 3rd quarter of school.  Their teacher is G. H. Bohmer.  They have been

                      receiving little certificates each month, but now get a big one.

 1 Dec 1913?  Orion enters the Lincoln County Corn Show.  He takes a second

                       premium on his Byne County White, which scored 87.  The winner had

                       score of 87 ¼, and won a farm wagon.  St Louis Globe Democrat.

            1914   Orion brings in a sawmill, cuts wood off the farm, and stacks it to dry.

12-15 Jan 1914  Orion Smith takes 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 9th premium ribbons at the

                       Missouri State Corn Show, at Columbia.

14 Feb 1914   Leola Folsom Smith marries Edward Frank Bohmer, Lincoln Co.

                       They will farm 3 miles north of Troy, about a mile west of Orion.

28 Feb 1914   Orion is serving as Clerk and also as a Director for the Carter Hall

                       School Board. 

28 July 1914   World War I begins.

 

5 March 1915  Henry, Orion's son, mails off his answer to a problem in "Wallaces Farmer".

                       The problem involves silage, and doing some calculations.

            1915   Dick Bennett, Mary Ella's husband is Sheriff of Lincoln Co.

            1915   Orion hires two carpenters and builds his new house.  He also buys his

                       first car, a Chevrolet.

25 Dec 1915   Orion moves his family out of the pre Civil War, Harvey house, into

                       the new house.  He will not tear down the Harvey house until after 1926.

                       The new house has a formal front room parlor, a bedroom living room

                       combination, which Orion and Lydia use, a bedroom for the girls,

                       and a dining room and a kitchen, downstairs.  Upstairs is Henry's room,

                       a guest bedroom, and a attic room, which the girls use as a winter playroom.

                       There is a large front porch, and two screened side porches.  A small

                        basement is also dug.  Water is supplied to the stock by cisterns at the

                        barn and old house, which collect runoff from the roofs.  This is

                        soft, so it is also used for washing clothes.  Springs in the West

                        pasture provide drinking water, which must be carried to the house.

Spring 1915  Carter Hall School is out.  Henry has completed the 6th grade.  His averages for

                      the year are,  Arithmetic 91, Grammer 74, U.S. History 93, Physiology 90,

                      Spelling 94, Writing 89, Reading 95, Geography 86.  His deportment was good

                      for three quarters then dropped to a 75 in the final quarter.  He is also graded on

                      feeding the stock, and providing fuel.  Jessie Gladney was his teacher. 

                      He was 12 years old.

     Nov 1916   Amos writes home.  His address, which may be his office, is 1016

                        17th St NW, Washington D.C.  He has a Civil Service job. He has been

                        to New  York.  He's talking about going to cousin Pete's for Christmas. 

28 Nov 1916   Margret, his mother, answers Amos's letter.                                                               

                        She says Elbert and Verner have been working putting in

                        a pipeline.  They have each made $35 to $40.

  1916 1918?   Orion likes to take a dog to town with him, for some reason, when he goes.

                        He takes Carlow # 1, his big dog, into the blacksmiths shop to have a look

                        at Lathan Henki's dog.  Lathan thinks his dog can whip Carlow, and they

                        go at it.  Carlow won and had to be pulled off before he killed Henki's dog.

                        Orion later says that if Carlow had been losing he was going to take a

                        yoke and kill Henki's dog. 

20 Dec 1916    The children are told that their mother Margret is near death.  Amos comes

                         home from Washington D.C. and Burton comes home from California.  Two

                         come home from St Louis.

23 Dec 1916   Welty's wife Margret A. Rinaman Smith dies.  Lincoln Co. Mo. 

25 Dec 1916   The funeral was held at 10:00 a.m at her home, with burial in the Troy cemetery,

                       at 12:30 on Christmas Day.  Rev. Russell conducted the services.. 

                       Her eight sons acted as pallbearers.  She has 16 grandchildren at this time.

            1917   Orion is the first Secretary/Treasurer of the Lincoln Co. Farm Bureau.

                       He was a charter member of what was originally called the Farmers

                       Elevator and Supply Co.

 3 Apr 1917   Orion is elected Chairman, and begins earning a salary of $7.50/year as

                      Clerk of the Carter Hall School.  He serves through 3 May 1921.

                      He continuously serves in some capacity into the 1930's.

 6 Apr 1917   The United States enters World War I, which has been going on

                       since August 1914.

                       Amos serves in WW I.  Served in France.  After the war he gets his

                       Civil Service job back with the government.

                       Ossie is working for a munitions plant in St. Louis during WWI.

     Fall 1917   Orion's son Henry is going to Buchanan high School in Troy.

                       He rides his horse Blacky, the 3 miles to school each day.  He leaves

                       him with Uncle Amos Rinaman, who lives next to the school, and also

                       eats his lunch with Uncle Amos.  He does his homework after every

                       else has gone to bed.  He finishes 2nd in his class.  Blacky is moon eyed

                       and likes to shy at everything.  This serves Henry well, when he is given

                       a similar horse, in the cavalry ROTC at MU.

            1917   Timber wolves are reported to be killing livestock around Hawk Point.

            1918?  Mary Ella's husband, Dick Bennett runs for sheriff of Lincoln Co.

                       During his term, Orion's daughters, Marguerite, and Alma, would visit

                       Ella at the jail where she lived, and are allowed to take the meals to the                                                                                                                                                                

                        prisoners Aunt Ella is assisted at the jail by "Aunt Catherine",

                        a Negro lady, who also assisted Orion and his wife when Henry,

                        their first child was born.

Sept 11 1918   Orion writes home from Union Station in St Louis.  The post card says,

                        "9:30 now, leave at 10:10.  I am back at Union Station, about ready to leave for war.

                        Found Ossie's all right.  Had fine visit with them.   Edith sure gave me a big hug. 

                        Ossie came back with me.  By By, O. R. Smith"  The post card is postmarked

                        12:30 A.M. Sept 12, 1918.  Orion is 42 years old, sole support of a farm family.

Sept 12 1918   This is the date men registered for the draft who were born between 1872 and 1886.

                        There was also a call for men born between 1897 and 1900.  Orion was born 10 Feb

                        1876.  The registration lasted three days.  After registering a draft lottery was held.

                        If your number came up, you got a chance to show good cause why you should

                        not be inducted.  If that didn't impress them you were inducted.  This registration

                       was probably being done at Jefferson Barracks, and the Army was probably running

                       several trains out from Union Station the night before.  They probably put everybody

                       in the barracks till it was over.  All men in the family between 18 and 45 would have

                       filled out a registration card during one of the three registration periods that were

                       held.  A search of Ancestry.com for Orion's card failed.  Orion either got lucky

                      in the lottery, or could prove he was the sole support of a farm family and got off. 

                      I expect he was back home on the farm within four days.

11 Nov 1918   World War I is over.

20 Aug 1918   Welty attends Artilla's and Josephs 50th wedding anniversary celebration in Troy.

            1918?  Orion's wife offends Harvey's wife by refusing to pick up her new

                        baby, creating a rift between the two families, that the children ignore,

28 Dec 1918   Welty is visiting Burton and his family in Riverside California,

                        where Burton is teaching at the Sherman Institute Indian school. 

                        On this day they take a side trip into Old Mexico.  Burton is still there in 1921.

            1919?  Uncle Doctor's son Allen is at the University of Missouri, before

                        going to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.  He lives on

                        Mathews Street, in the second house on the left going north.  The street is only

                        one block long.  The author of this event log, Willard Smith Bacon, lived at

                        407 Mathews for the 1957 and 1958 school years.  The second house on

                        the left sure sounds right, and as it only had two rooms to rent, it appears

                        I was right in Allen's footsteps.

28 Jun 1919   The Treaty of Versailles is signed, and WWI is officially over.

 6 Oct 1919    Amos Herbert Smith is given a 32nd degree Masonic ring in Washington D.C.

                       Some of the inscription is in Latin? and other symbols. 

                       V.E. 12th is also inscribed.

 

            1920   Welty is 71 years old. Welty will begin to spend considerable time at

                       Elbert's home, which is nearby.  Elbert's children, Lillian and Elberta,

                       are going to Perkins School with the children of William P. Rinaman,

                        Artilla Smith Rinaman's son.  They live in William Smith Sr's log cabin,

                       as Artilla and Joseph have moved to Troy.  The kids get together some,

                       particularly when its time to make molasses.  If Elbert hasn't grown a cane

                       patch, he helps the Rinamans with theirs, and takes his pay in molasses.

  March 1920  Orion's daughter, Alma, is awarded Stevenson's 'Treasure Island" as a

                       prize at the end of the school year, for the most credit marks in her class.

                       Her teacher is Edna Howell.  Marguerite has finished 8th grade, at age 16. 

                       All of her grades for the year were above 90.  Her teacher was Marie Davis.

                       She lost a year because the right grade wasn't being taught, and grandpa wouldn't

                       let her skip a grade.  So she repeated one.  They always taught Grades 1,2,3,4,

                       but then would teach 5, and 7, one year, then 6, and 8 the next.  I think she had

                       been sick the year before which put her off schedule.

             1920  The Slavens Chapel Southern Episcopal Methodist Church is disbanded.

      Fall 1920  Orion's daughter Marguerite, is a freshman at Buchanan High School. 

                      One of the books she gets for English 9, Section 2, is "Ulysses Among

                      the Phaecians".   Uncle Doctor's son Allen enters West Point.

  6 Nov 1920   Amos Herbert Smith marries Edna Allison.

            1921   Amos is visiting Niagara Falls.  Delayed honeymoon?  

12 Feb 1921  Allen writes Henry from West Point.  Allen put the shot in High School and

                      suggests Henry try it.  He wants to try Henry out wrestling when he gets home.

                      He is in his second year, and has had to learn how to dance.  Now he's gotten

                      interested in girls, to Henry's amazement.  Henry is still girl shy.

30 Mar 1921  Henry is invited to a DeMolay meeting at the Masonic Hall.       

 1 Sept 1921   Orion's daughter, Alma Smith gets a Certificate of Attainment that says she

                       has completed the eight elementary grades, and can enter high school.

25 Sept 1921  Allen writes Henry from West Point.  On his way back to school from summer

                      vacation he stopped in Washington D.C. and saw Uncle Amos.  He also visited

                      the Naval Academy.  President Harding has visited the Point and Allen got

                      very close to him several times.

     Fall 1921   Orion's daughter, Marguerite, is a sophomore at Buchanan High School.

                       One of her textbooks is "Types of the Short Story", price 50 cents.

13 Nov 1921  Allen writes Henry again from West Point.  He has been to a football game

                      Army played at Yale.  They went by boat.  He will go to the Army-Navy game

                      in New York in two weeks.  He's coming home for Christmas.  He complements

                      his Aunt Lydia on her cooking.

     Dec 1921   Orion's son Henry, enters the U of Missouri to study Agriculture.

                       The farm has a phone, on a party line.

23 Jan  1922   Amos has finished a course in accounting, during the fall, hoping to find

                       something more interesting to do than his Civil service job.

17 Feb 1922   Orion, Lydia and Alma visit Lydia's mother and sister

                       Johanna, and Carrie Carwell.

27 Feb 1922   Dr William P. Smith's son Allen, at West Point, advises Henry Smith

                       at M U to learn how to dance, or "he will always be just a little bit

                       behind the fellow who can." 

 Easter 1922   Allen has a first place in the 16# shot put, at 39'10", and second in

                       the broad jump at 10' 2" at a indoor track meet.  He is on the track squad.

                       His Uncle Amos will visit him.  Allen gets him a place to stay

                       in the barracks, and he eats with Allen in the mess.

12 Dec 1922   Verner's wife Anna, goes with her mother, Johannah Carwell, and

                       Minie, to visit her brother George, in White Cloud, Kansas.

28 Dec 1922   Welty writes his will.  He leaves everthing equally to his children. 

                      However he prohibits any of his estate from going to either of Theron's wifes,

                      or any children, if Theron should be dead.

 8 Jan 1923     Mrs Louis Schaper has died.  Vernette Smith is out of school with chicken pox.

                       Orion has butchered a hog. 

22 Feb 1923   Orion is elected a Director of the newly formed Live Stock Shipping

                       Association of Troy.  Orion has two hunting dogs, Sport and Frisky.

                       Frisky is a good squirrel dog that Uncle Doctor gave him. 

                       There are 200 Peking ducks Marguerite and Alma are raising

                       to pay for boarding while at high school.  They bring $212.20

                       when sold.  The next year they raise Mallards. They have

                       trouble with Henry's bees, which sting the ducks. They have

                       to feed a stung duck sweet milk or it will die.  Orion is feeding

                        them, and when he falls down in the duck pen he decides the girls

                        will go out of the duck business.  Alma and her Lydia are partners

                        in the chicken business.  Alma gets a brooder house, and

                        they raise chickens and collect eggs to sell.  They sell 89

                        young chickens for $45.99.  There are always a few guinea hens kept,

                        as they are as good as watchdogs.  Orion has two work horses

                        Major, a Percheron, and Sam, two mules Jack and Kate,

                        a saddle horse Pied, and a cow Beaut, which is kept for milk. 

                        Lydia churns butter, which the Catholic priest, Father Slaughtholder, in

                        Troy likes.  He has a standing order for unsalted butter.  Orion will raise

                        a calf each year for slaughter or sale.  He keeps 8 sows, with many piglets,

                        which he fattens for sale.  He is farming about 60 acres, mostly in

                        corn and wheat, with small patches of oats and rye.  Orion's work day

                        begins at 4 am, and bedtime is at 9 pm.  He would rest for an hour after

                        the noon meal.  When there is a lot to do in the bottom, he and the

                        team will be down there early, waiting for daylight.  There is a kitchen

                        garden, a potato patch, a watermelon patch, and a truck garden,

                        for tomatoes, beans, and anything else they want to plant.

                        He butchers his own hogs and cures his own meat.  Lydia makes lots of

                        kraut.  There is an orchard with peaches, pears, cherries, and apples. 

                        Henry is raising bees, and making good money selling it to help

                        with college.  There are grapevines, with wonderful Concord grapes. 

                        Orion liked to pick up the arrowheads that were plowed out as

                        he walked behind the mules, on two of his fields, and accumulated

                        a large collection.  His other hobby is hunting.  Although the work is

                        never ending and hard, the food is wonderful, with a choice of 3 meats

                        for breakfast being standard.  The bacon was home cured and thick sliced,

                        and the eggs were right out of the henhouse.  When fried chicken was

                        on the table, it was every man for himself.  I have been known to eat so

                        much that I couldn't handle any of the great dessert's.

14 Apr 1923   Orion is made Secretary of the LSSA of Troy.

 1 June 1923    The East Missouri Power Company is organized, and electric lines begin

                        to show up in the countryside.

12 June 1923  Allen Welty Smith graduates from West Point.

 9 Aug 1923    Amos write Henry, Orion's son a postcard from Riverside California.

                       He's been to the beach, and asks after Henry's dogs, Sport and Frisky.

                       He says he's going to Los Angeles the next day to look for work.

16 Sept 1923   The threshing machine has been at Orion's farm.  Orion turns down a

                        invitation to visit with Rinaman relatives from Maryland, at Welty's house.

                        Welty has been away.

22 Sept 1923-17 Dec 1924  Henry corresponds with Clara A. Sykora, a high school classmate.

                        She works as a Ad manager at the Peoples Bank in Troy.  Henry invites her to

                       Barn Warming at M.U. in 1923, but she's sick and can't go.  He asks her to go again

                       in 1924.  There is no indication that she does.

23 Sept 1923   Orion is expecting to be subpoenaed for jury duty in St Charles on 1 Oct.

28 Sept 1923   Orion and family are visiting Johanna Carwell, Lydia's mother, who is sick. 

                        They bring Welty home for a few days.  Verner and Uncle Ed Fredde want

                        Orion to help fan wheat.  Ed Fredde is married to Carrie Carwell.

  2 Oct 1923   Welty has gone home from Orion's, taking some of the honey,

                       Henry's bees produced.

  7 Oct 1923   Orion takes the family to see Johanna Carwell.  Henry Carwell is also visiting.

                       He will stop at Orion's farm to visit.  Henry, Orion's son, is in the ROTC

                       cavalry unit, at the University of Missouri.  He's been promoted. 

                       Verner buys a new Chevrolet, and heads

                       for St Louis to see a Doctor and the air races.  He misses

                       a turn on the way home, and backs into a ditch getting turned

                       around.  Has to be pulled out.  Hurrying to make up time he hits big rock

                       in the road, damaging the dust pan so bad he takes it off and throws it away.

                       Things are so bent up he can't work the clutch.  He gets home without

                       using the clutch, and the next day takes it in and trades it in on a new one.

     Oct 1923   Henry has gone to the Barn Warming dance at M U.  Orion says he's been

                       expecting it.  He wonders how Henry expects to dance, when he

                       knows nothing about it.

 

29 Oct 1923   Orion has to go to St Charles for jury duty.  He doubts if he will live

                       through it, if the weather is good for corn picking.  He has a good crop.

                       Uncle Dick Bennett the sheriff goes into St Charles and tells Orion

                        he won't have to come in for a couple of days, yet.

12 Nov 1923   Henry has a job ushering at M.U.  (Movie theater?)  He also tries out

                       for the M U football team, but soon decides its more than he can handle.

24 Nov 1923   Marguerite and Alma Smith perform as part of the glee club for

                       the Buchanan high School Carnival.  In Geometry Marguerite got a S+,

                       Alma a S.  In English they both got M-.  Vernette got a S+ in Higher Algebra.

                       Marguerite is blindfolded and taken to the gym, and initiated into

                       the Girl Scouts.  They will board with Aunt Ella ,at her house in town  

                       for the first two years they are going to Buchanan High School.  Then

                       they board with Mrs. Aydelotte.

11 Dec 1923   Orion and Lydia have both been subpoenaed for jury duty.  Orion says if

                       he can't get Lydia released on medical grounds, "he will release her himself."

                       She doesn't have to go.

  Dec 1923      Allen sends Henry a Christmas card from St Louis.

 6 Jan 1924    Henry is in quarantine at MU.

 8 Jan 1924    Either Ed Fredde or Ed Bohmer is coming to help Orion pick corn.

                      Orion is writing and sending out dividend checks for the Farmers Elevator

                      stock holders.

13 Jan 1924   Henry is out of quarantine and back in school.  Orion begins a campaign                              

                      to get Theron named manager of the Farmers Elevator.  He is obviously

                      back on good terms with Theron, but Lydia isn't.

20 Jan 1924   Although Orion wages a hot fight, Theron comes in second out of

                      three choices.  Amos writes Orion.  Amos has moved.  His address

                      is 303 10th St, Huntington Beach, Calif.

26 Jan 1924   Orion is elected as a Director of the Troy Producers Shipping Association

.                     Just a new name for the LSSA.  Orion has to walk the 3 miles

                      to town to the Shippers Meeting because the snow has made it to

                      slick to drive.  Orion is encouraging Henry to take a job at Yellowstone  

                      Park for $125/ month, if he gets a chance.

29 Jan 1924   Orion is butchering hogs.  Orion tries to ship some of Henry's furs,

                      but so many licenses are required, and they cost to much, he gives up.

                      What he thinks isn't fit for prayer meeting.  He says " all the fools are not

                      dead, with the greater preponderance being in the State Legislature."

 6 Feb 1924   Henry has a part time job that requires him to work on Sunday. 

                     Orion is not so sure about that.  He believes in getting some well

                     deserved rest on Sunday.  He doesn't want it to destroy Henry's

                      respect for the Sabbath.  Orion's opinion of some religious leaders

                      is that "they have big mouths, are full of gas, and have very little

                      religion, and no Christianity."

19 Feb 1924   Orion is shopping for his first tractor.  Lydia is going to vote for the first time.

 1 Mar 1924   Verner has bought a radio, that you listen to with headphones.  Orion  

                       is going to a Directors meeting at the Farm Bureau.

 5 Mar 1924   Orion is borrowing money to keep Henry in school, and will borrow

                       more to buy a tractor.  Verner's radio will pick up anything east of

                       the Rocky mountains.  Orion and Lydia visit Johanna Carwell.

24 Mar 1924   Verner and Anna picked up the St Patrick's Ball from M.U. on their radio.

                       Amos has gotten a raise, and been moved 300 miles NW of Los Angeles,

                       into the foothills of the Coast Range mountains.

  1 Apr 1924   Verner takes Anna into St Louis for medical care.

27 Apr 1924   Orion has bought his first tractor, a Fordson, and is having a good time

                       trying it out.  The dogs Sport and Frisky don't like it.

                       When Henry is home, he and Orion eat in shifts, so one of them                    

                       can be driving it at all times.  The house of a neighbor, Ida

                        Page burns early in the morning, while she was out milking.  The two

                        youngest children, a boy 5 and a girl 3 1/2,  have burned to death.  Orion,

                        not knowing it's happened, doesn't get there until afternoon.  He helps

                        put the bodies in the coffins, the arms and legs were burned off, and

                        takes them to the cemetery in the spring wagon.  A incubator for chicks

                        exploded causing the fire.  He's very upset.  Verner takes Henry to      

                        the train, for M.U. but they almost miss it.

13 May 1924   Henry has been in Parker Hospital at M. U. for a while.  Sounds like mumps.

                        He hopes to get out on the 13th.  Wants to come home on the weekend,

                        but needs $15 to $20.

11 July 1924  Allen has been promoted to 1st Sergeant in the Cadet corp.  He is in summer camp.

                       They sent his class on a two week trip to New York, by boat, where they visited a

                       Coast Guard Station on Fisens Island and got to fire the big guns.

20 Aug 1924   Welty buys 57 acres from Nannie and Earl Welsh.  Nannie Ethel

                       and family will. soon move to Wisconsin.  

12 Sept 1924   Amos is vacationing in Yosimite Valley, California.  He sends Orion a postcard.

14 Sept 1924  Cuivre river has flooded some and stopped cars from crossing the ford for a day.

                      Orion has his Fordson tractor.  Orion and Mr Schloeman have been working on

                      graveling the road.  Orion and Mr Grof, and Mr Schloeman have all gotten together

                      and have been ringing their hogs.  Orion is going to spend a couple of days helping

                      Uncle Jimmy Houston with his road.  They have gone to town to see a Medicine

                      Show, which they didn't like.

18 Sept 1924  Johanna Carwell is staying with Orion and Lydia for a few days..                                                                         

1924-25 school year.  Alma and Marguerite are going to High School in Troy and are boarding

                       in town at Mrs Aydelotts.  Henry is at M.U.  He's selling a lot of honey, several

                       hundred pounds, both at Columbia and at home.  His bank balance is running at

                       $10 to $20 for expenses, while at school.

28 Sept 1924  The Farmers Elevator in Troy burned on 22 Sept..  Orion is still a director and

                      he's worried that the insurance, $8,000., wouldn't be enough to rebuild.  Johanna

                      Carwell has been staying with them, but has gone home.  Verner and family have

                      been out to visit.

 4 Oct 1924    Orion and "Frisky" get three squirrels.

11 Oct 1924  Fred Carwell and family have stopped by to have lunch and visit with Orion

                     and Lydia.  Orion's sows had 31 pigs.  25 are still alive.  He's planning on shipping

                     a load of hogs.  Turtle and Crows restaurant in Troy has had a fire.

31 Oct 1924  Orion is talking about trapping muskrats when he's done with the corn picking. 

                     There is still 295 pounds of honey to sell.  It's going for 16 cents/lb, which will

                     give Henry $47.20 more for college.  Amos Rinaman has had pneumonia. 

                     Started out with Typhoid fever.  Has been sick three weeks.

9 Nov 1924  The "Elevator" has burned in Troy.  Verner and family have been out to Orion's

                    for a visit.  The road west of Troy, by Verner's has been built and graveled. 

                    Uncle Dr has apparently used some political influence getting it done.  The location

                    of the new concrete road across Lincoln County is being debated.  Sport and Frisky

                    have whipped Edgar Creech's and Schloeman's dogs  Amos Rinaman has been sick

                    but is feeling better.  Orion has 20 hogs ready to sell.  Orion has bought tickets at

                    the Lyceum to see "Covered Wagon'.  Lydia is fudging on going.  Alma and

                    Marguerite have sold 106 ducks and made $116.64. 

16 Nov 1924  Luther Brown found 4 bee trees in the east pasture.  He and Orion have cut two

                   of them down.  They got 100 lbs of honey from one tree and 15 lbs from the second.

                   Orion kept 40 lbs from the first tree to sell.  Some of Orion's mail, if it doesn't

                   have his box number on it it ending up at Uncle Ossie's.  They have been to the

                   Lyceum and to the picture show.  Saw "Covered Wagon" and "Crossing the Platte".

                   Orion has sold 18 hogs.  All his letters are signed "Homefolks"

23 Nov 1924  Mr Groff is helping Orion get the corn picked.  Frisky and Sport have got a big

                      possum.  Orion skins out the hide for Henry, who has made some money while in

                      high school, trapping and selling hides.  Usually muskrat, but some coon and possum.

 3 Dec 1924  Orion has been helping Scloeman and Grof take their hogs to market.  He has helped

                     Schloeman butcher a hog, and has gotten the "scalds" so he can butcher one himself.

                     He thinks he will have 500 bushels of corn to sell.  Henry has had a job washing

                     dishes at school to make money.  He is trying to get another.

17 Dec 1924  Orion has butchered a hog.  They have been out at the Kemper's visiting Lydia's

                      sister, and looking at a three year old unbroken horse that they want $60 for. 

                      Orion doesn't buy it.  Orion needs another horse to use with "Sam" a horse he

                      already has.  He wants two good teams.  Alma and Marguerite have both gotten

                      new wrist watches for $15 at Avery's.  15 jewel.  Lydia's chickens are laying 46

                      eggs a day. 

1923-1925     Ossie is boarding with his dad Welty.  It looks like Welty charges him about

                      $180/year.  Ossie is probably farming Welty's land on shares.

            1925   Nannie Ethel Smith Welsh is living in Bloomington, Wisconsin.

 6 Jan 1925     Elbert has been helping the Morrison's at their sawmill.  The shaft bearing broke,

                       the saw came loose and killed Mrs Ruth Cropper Morrison.

 

15 Jan 1925    Johanna Carwell has given Orion a harmonica, apparently a family heirloom,

                       which he calls a harp. (french harp, or mouth organ)  It is 8 inches long. 

                       Elbert has spent the night at Orion's.

20 Jan 1925    Ice has been on the ground for 5 weeks.  The longest stretch Orion can remember.

28 Jan 1925    Henry has ordered a second headset and other parts for Orion's radio in Columbia.

                       There is only one headset, so they have to take turns listening.

                       The surveyors have been looking at routes for the concrete road.  Marguerite

                       and Alma have been in a play, "The Spinster Convention" at the Colonial theater.

                       Orion has sold the last of the girls ducks, and got the team shod.  He's using them

                       to get wood.  Orion sold some furs for $5.75.

30 Jan 1925  The second set of headphones came in and Orion has got them hooked up, so

                     he and Lydia can listen at the same time.  The like the music, but Orion doesn't

                     like classical singing.

11 Feb 1925  Charles B. Claggett, a St Louis policeman, and very distantly related through first

                     Smith family, was shot and killed in St Louis.  Orion knew him well and "ran some

                     with him in his younger days".

17 Feb 1925  Orion is ready to sell 5 hogs.  His horses are Sam, Fillie, Old Major, and Blackie.

                      His cow is Old Beaut.

24 Feb 1925  Alma is going to a Sophmore-Junior party at Buchanan High School.

 4 Mar 1925  Orion has the flue.  Lester Schloeman has come up to help Lydia do the chores.

16 Mar 1925   Marguerite Smith visits Carter Hall School, to practice teach for two days.

                       She is a Senior in high School.

17 Mar 1925   Orion and Mr Grof are sawing wood.  The Riggs bridge across Cuivre that

                       Orion uses to get to Troy has washed out.  The Highway Department has told

                       Uncle Doctor that Highway 9 will be built next year.  This will become Highway 61.

31 Mar 1925   There is surveying underway for a concrete road and bridge over

                       Cuiver River near Orion.  Getting to town will get easier.

19 Apr 1925   Fred Carwell and Uncle Ed Fredde visit Orion's place.

26 Apr 1925   Orion and family visit Johanna Carwell.

 8 May 1925   Uncle Doctor has been out in Orion's neighborhood, to see Aunt Jane?

                       His son Allen has graduated from West Point and has

                       orders to sail for the Hawaiian Islands, for a three year tour.

15 May 1925   Verner's son Vernette, and Orion's daughter Marguerite graduate

                        from Buchanan High School.  Ruby Rinaman, and Dorothy Folsom Smith,

                       Oswald's daughter, are also in the class.  Vernette will go on to Central Wesleyan

                        College in Warrenton, and after teaching three years to earn money,

                        Marguerite will follow.

21 May 1925   Orion is shopping for another horse or mule.  He's looking at

                        one that costs $140.  Old Major is on his last legs.

25 May 1925   Henry has an excused absence from M.U. for 5 days to help

                       Orion plant corn, and to take care of his apiary.

     Aug 1925   Henry and his mother Lydia, go to White Cloud Kansas on the

                       train to visit the George H. Carwells.

31 Aug 1925   Marguerite begins her first year of teaching at Carter Hall School.

                        Her salary is $85.00/month.

12 Nov 1925  Alma visits Carter Hall School.

  Dec 1925      Burton's Christmas card to Orion comes from Riverside, California.

 7 Feb 1926   Amos has attended a family reunion, Christmas day, of a

                      distant relative, identified as grandpas (Welty?) first cousin.  Since Amos

                      is in northern California, this may have been some of the

                      Cannon's or Presely's.  Henry is taking boxing at M.U.

           1926   Harvey Elbert Smith is living just NW of Welty's farm.   

                      Welty visits a lot, helping his granddaughters Lillian and Elberta

                      with their chores, and teasing them by calling them boys.

                      If the chores get done early, they occasionally talk Hattie into. 

                      driving them down to the Linn's Mill Crossing, on Coon Creek

                       to fish for sunfish.  Welty goes to town with Hattie

                       to pick up the wheat sacks for threshing.  On the way home with

                       the back seat of the Model T stuffed with wheat sacks, the left rear

                       wheel came off, stranding them for awhile, till Hattie walks to the

                       neighbors for help.  Elbert tells Elberta, that the reason he is deaf

                       in his left ear, is because his mother, Margret, often boxed him on

                       that ear for being onery.  Most of his brothers are also deaf in their

                       left ear for the same reason.  Orion seems to have been one of the

                       lucky ones, who didn't end up with this problem.

           1926   The record of the Troy Producers Shipping Association ends.  Orion

                       has been a Director and Secretary for the entire period.  Discussions

                       of turning the organization over to the Farm Bureau were held each

                       meeting.  It appears to have happened about this time.  In a typical

                       year the organization shipped 20 carloads of hogs, (2779 head), 4 carloads

                       of cattle, (241 head), and 14 mixed carloads that included 115 calves.

                       The value of the shipments that year was $59,062.14.

26 Feb 1926   Phillip Schaper is trying to sell Orion, Uncle Henry Schapers old

                       Chevrolet for $20.  Only good for parts.  Orion doesn't want it,

                       because he's about ready for a new one.  The old Harvey house is

                       still standing on Orion's farm.  Lydia has young chickens in it.

                       She also uses it as a wash house, and has a gasoline engine

                       driven washing machine.  Henry has his honey separator there, and sells

                       honey in the comb, and in jars, with his own labels.

                       When its torn down, a utility building replaces it.  Henry puts a small

                       windmill on the roof to generate enough electricity for a radio.

                       They have had a radio a couple of years, but it may have been

                       battery powered. The windmill may have originally

                       been put on the old Harvey house.

27 Feb 1926  Henry has been initiated into the Alpha Zeta honorary fraternity in agriculture, at MU.

28 Feb 1926   Henry has been in a boxing tournament at MU.  He beat Gaspberry, then

                      lost to Bryan.  He hurt his thumb in the process.  Henry has sent Orion a cigar,

                      which he really enjoyed.  Lydia is getting 124 eggs a day out of her chickens.

 2 Mar 1926   Vernette is sharing tales of college at Central Wesleyan, with Henry

                       at the University of Missouri.  It seems Vernette has busted a solid

                       mahogany piano stool at Fry's Drug store, and Verner is going to

                       make him pay for it.  It doesn't look like he'll have any money to

                       date for awhile.

 6 Mar 1926   Marguerite, Orion's daughter is teaching at Carter Hall School.

                       In the past week she has whipped 5 boys and pulled one girls hair.

                       Her sister Alma is going to teach with her the next week.  Alma has

                       played a piano solo for the Literary Society.  Henry is taking boxing

                       at the U of Mo.  He's in the Alpha Gamma Sigma  agricultural student

                       fraternity.  A farm hand can be hired for $50 to $60/ month.

 9 Mar 1926   Henry's been in a boxing tournament, and taken one in the nose.

                       Its been to wet to farm, and Orion's mule Jack is trying to tear the

                       barn down.  Orion has promised him, he will remember it when work starts.

10 Mar 1926  The Hawk Point area votes in electricity.

14 Mar 1926  Marguerite has had to whip some boys in her class at Carter Hall.  Alma has

                      taken the class for a day.  Alma gets the German measles.  The family dog is

                      Frisky.  Henry has sold $9.30 worth of honey.  Marguerite and Orion have been

                      listening to a old time fiddling, on the radio from, Hot Springs.

15 Mar 1926 3 Feb 1933  Henry conducts a long correspondence with J. Harold Long,

                     of Wellsville, a guy he's met at MU.  They were in the same fraternity.  J. H. Long

                      refers to Uncle Britton Smith, who he has apparently met.

18 Mar 1926  There has been a wreck on the Short Line Railroad near Troy.  Orion still has the

                      Fordson tractor.

16 Apr 1926  The school year at Carter Hall is over.  There were 32 students,

                      6 in 1st, 4 in 2nd, 2 in 3rd, 1 in 4rth, 8 in 5th, 11 in 7th grade.

                      Everyone got promoted, although 2 took final examinations from the School system.

Spring 1926  Alma Smith, Orion's daughter, graduates from Troy High School.  She will go to

                     Central Weslyian College in Warrenton for 20 ½ months, four semesters, until the

                     college closes it doors.  She will finish her Bachelors Degree in Education at

                     Northeast Missouri Teachers College in Kirksville, August 9, 1940.

   June 1926   Henry Smith, Orion's son graduates from the University of Missouri,

                      with a B.S. in Agriculture.  He was a member of the Alpha Gamma Sigma,

                      ag fraternity, and Alpha Zeta, a Ag honorary Society.  His uncle F.W.

                      Carwell sends him $1.00 as a graduation present.

                       He will farm with his dad for a few years, then

                       get a job with the Dept. of Agriculture.  Until he retires he will return to

                       the farm most weekends, even from Kansas City, to work.  Either during

                       college or this period, he will go to Kansas with Merrill, Verner's son,

                       at least once for the wheat harvest.  After graduation he will buy a

                       motorcycle with a side car, and make at least two long cross country trips,

                       one of which was to see his Uncle Burton on the Indian

                       reservation in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  He will also ride the motorcycle up Pikes Peak

                       in Colorado.

12 July 1926  Burton and family are on their way to Troy to visit.

Aug-Sept 1926  Burton has been transferred from California to the U. S. Indian School in Santa Fe,

                        New Mexico.  He works for the Indian School Service of the Department of the

                        Interior.

   4 Sept 1926-9June 1928  Henry is corresponding with Burton's daughter Margaret "Mardy" Smith.

                       She is a senior at the Indian School.

 

  6 Sept 1926  Marguerite begins her second year of teaching at Carter Hall school.

  7 Nov 1926  Burton's Indian School has played a football game with a Sante Fe high school.

                       The coaches got into a fight, the girls fought with the Indians coaches wife, and

                       a boy from the high school team licked the referee

20 Nov 1926  Henry takes Alma, Marguerite, and Orion to the MU/Kansas football

                       game in Columbia.

22 Dec 1926  Burton's Christmas card to Orion comes from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

  1926–1927   Marguerite Smith, Orion's daughter is hired to teach at Carter Hall School

                       for $90/month plus$5/month for janitor work.  Salaries will drop to

                        $45/month during the depression.

29 April 1927  Carter Hall School is out.  Marguerite had 30 students, in the 1, 2, 3, 4,

                        6 and 8th grades.  Orion, Lydia, Alma and Henry all visit the school on the last day.

    1927 1928   Alma is a freshman at Central Wesleyan College, in Warrenton. 

                        Dates on a notebook where she is keeping track of her meals, and

                        collecting recipes.  Probably an assignment in a Home Economics class.

                        The earliest entry is 5 Sept 1927.

 3 June 1927   Burton's daughter, Margaret Francis is graduating from Santa Fe High School.

14 July 1927   Marguerite has been at summer school at Central Wesleyan College, in Warrenton.

                       She writes Alma a postcard, making arrangements to get home.

23 July 1927   Henry has registered with the Missouri State Board of Agriculture as a

                      Apiarist. (beekeeper)  He has 14 colonies of bees.  His Apiary # is 1419.

                      His certificate # is 1417.

15 Aug 1927  Burton, and his sons Burton and Robert Lee, have had to get up after midnight

                      and chase 10 cows back in the barn.  The boys do it barefoot and get lots of stickers.

                      Tige the dog helped.  They are also raising chickens.

 5 Sept 1927   Marguerite begins her third year of teaching at Carter Hall School.

12 Sept 1927  Burton's daughter "Mardy" enters the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

                       Her brother Burton is also there.  Her dad, Burton, has fallen down the back stairs

                       and hurt his hand and his head.

 7 OCT 1927  Henry goes back to Columbia,to the 22nd Annual Barn Warming at M.U. 

                      He has six girls on his dance card.

10 Oct 1927-7 Oct 1928  Henry is corresponding with Vaonia Hedrick who was also a student

                      at M.U. in Columbia.  She was one of Henry's dates for Barn Warming.

Dec 1927    Burtons Christmas card to Orion and Lydia, comes from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

29 Dec 1927  Henry is best man at J. Harold Long's wedding to Oria Arline Hipps, at Wellsville, Mo.

                      Harold gets a wedding present from Clarence Cannon.  Henry get the bridesmaids

                      address.

 

Dec 1928        Verner and Anna send Orion and Lydia a Christmas card.

28 Dec 1928   Mardy has been in the hospital, but is home for the holidays.  Burton has

                       gotten a new government car, a 1928 "Whipper".

16 Jan 1928     Mardy has been to one of her brother Burton's frat dances, and had a great time.

             1928   Dr William P. Smith is the elected Representative to the State

                        Legislature from Lincoln County.  At some point he has been a

                        County Health Commissioner, a Road Commissioner, and served on

                        the Troy Board of Education, and on the City Council.

11 Feb 1928   Allen Welty Smith marries Edith Vivian Shadinger in Honolulu, Hawaii at the

                       Central Union Church.

 8 March 1928  Henry is still talking about the Barn Warming Dance at M.U.

28 April 1928  Carter Hall School is out.  Marguerite had 16 students in 1,2,3,4,5

                        and 7th grade.

 

 7 June 1928     Burton is busy getting a new building built for the boys at the Indian School, in

                         Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Also under construction is a bakery, and a hospital.

Dec 1928         Burton's Christmas Card to Orion comes from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

    1928 1929   Vernette Smith is a senior at Central Wesleyan College, in Warrenton,

                        and Marguerite Smith is a sophomore.  Alma is not there.  It is not clear

                        how Marguerite got to be a Sophomore, but it was probably by going to summer

                        school.    

                        Central Wesleyan College 1929 Yearbook.  

                        Vernette has helped pay his way by waiting tables,

                        and the result was meeting his future wife.

 9 Feb 1929      Marguerite send her dad, Orion, a birthday card from Central Weslyian.

26 Mar 1929    Marguerite will get a ride home from Warrenton, with "Red" Vernette,

                        for the weekend.

 5 May 1929    Opal has written Henry asking about Alma and Marguerite's teaching.  Opal

                        is a teacher.  She is probably a second cousin, Opal Smith, who will marry a Ward.

10 May 1929  Marguerite sends Lydia a Mothers Day card from Central Wesleyian.

16 May 1929   Edith E. Smith Ossie's daughter, graduates from Buchanan High School.

            1929?  Burton retires from Civil service.  Burton L. Smith's last

                        position had been  on a Indian reservation in Santa Fe New Mexico, where

                        he was Superintendent of a Indian school.  At some point in his career he

                        worked at a school in Shawnee, Kansas.  He and his wife retire to

                        Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

 5 June 1929  Vernette C. Smith, Verner's son, graduates from Central Wesleyan College in

                       Warrenton.

14 June 1929  Alma goes to a Student's Reunion at Central Wesleyan.  Alfred S. Bacon signs

                       her book.

15 Aug 1929  Marguerite and Alma receive a invitation to attend the Commencement

                      Ceremony at Central Wesleyan College from Leona D. Strieker, class of 1930.

13 Sept 1929  Alma attends a Student's Reunion at Central Wesleyan.

      Oct.1929   The stock market crashes.

21 Oct 1929  Ossie's girls, Dorothy and Edith are having a Halloween party, and have invited

                      Orion's family.  They are having "presents, apples, pies, and tricks, and

                       fortunes stuck on little sticks."

            1929    Someone in the family has taken a Blue Ribbon at the Lincoln County Fair.

                        Posssibly Henry for his honey.

26 Oct 1929   Amos marries Edna Mae Allison in Kansas City Mo.

 

             1930   Welty is 81 years old.  He spends time at various of his children's homes.

             1930   Dr William P. Smith is elected to a second term in the State Legislature.

15 Jan   1930-Mar 1932  Henry is corresponding with Gladys "Peggy" Bacon at 5932 Julian Ave.

                       St Louis.  She is Alfred Bacon's sister who has been dating Marguerite. 

                       The family's have apparently gotten together as a result of Alfred and Marguerite

                       going to Central Wesleyan College.  Henry has sent her a jar of honey.  She is

                      still in high school.

 3 Mar. 1930  Henry has sent Gladys a picture of himself, and wants one in return.  She has

                      apparently been to the farm as she is asking about her pig "Aliwishi". 

April 1930  Census  Oswald and Verner Smith are living in the NW corner of Clark Township,

                       between brother Elbert, Welty, and the Carwell holdings.  Verner is 50, his wife

                       Anna Carwell is 47.  Their sons are Vernette C. age 22, and Merrill W. age 18.

                       Oswald B. is 52, his wife Lillie E. is 49.  Their children are Dorothy F. age 23,

                       and Edith E. age 19.  Harvey Elbert is 47, his wife Hattie H. is 39.  Their

                       daughters Lillian F. age 19 and Elberta W. age 10 are with them  Welty, age 80,

                       is living in Troy, with Dick Bennett age 70, and daughter Mary E. age 55.

                       Dr William P. Smith, age 59, is also in town, with wife Eugenia age 55. 

                      Theron is in Millwood Township, probably in Davis.  He is 48.  His wife Essie H.

                      is 42.  Orion R. is 3 miles north of town, age 54, wife Lydia is 54, Henry W.

                      is 28, Marguerite is 26, and Alma is 24.  Folsom, age 41 lives near Orion, with

                      husband Edward J. Bohmer, age 40, and children, Robert A. age 12, Melvin E.

                      age 9, and daughter Virginia, age 2.

Summer 1930  Lincoln Co is hit by a major drought.  The temperature is over

                       100 for 34 days.  All the family farmers are in trouble.

16 July 1930  Henry is working in the wheat harvest for Miller Bros. out of Big Springs, Neb.

                      Merrill Smith is with him.  they are on their motorcycles.

22 July 1930  Burton wants Henry to visit before he heads home.  The Peoples Bank of Troy

                      has failed and been taken over by the Farmers and Merchants Bank. 

                      Orion blames the failure on big loans to farmers trying to grow rice in Lincoln county.

31 July 1930   Henry is working in the wheat harvest for the Kalsen Brothers, out of Big Springs,

                       Nebraska.  Marguerite has sent out 47 wedding invitations, and is worried Henry

                       won't get home for it.  She has gotten wedding presents from Henry and

                      Ruth Carwell, Leona Carwell, and Celesta.  Merrill Smith has been home, but

                      is leaving for camp.

 2 Aug 1930   Henry is still in Big Springs Neb.  Merrill has returned to Troy, then left for Des

                      Moines, Iowa.  Marguerite is worried that it is going to rain on her wedding day.

                      Ruth Carwell has come down for the wedding.  Uncle Amos Rinaman appears to

                      be a shoo in to get reelected.

 3 Aug 1930   Marguerite Smith marries Alfred Stanley Bacon, who she met while at

                       Central Wesleyan College.  The marriage is held in the front parlor at

                       Orion's house.  All the Bacon family from St Louis, including Gladys attend.

                       Aunt Adeline Kemper has baked Angel food cakes, which are served with ice cream.

 8 Aug 1930   Orion has sold 9 hogs.  Amos Rinaman won the primary election.  One of the

                      Bacon's told them Marguerites wedding was the "most beautiful home wedding

                       she ever saw".

            1930   Theron's renounced son, James Ernest Smith becomes an Electrical

                       engineer.  He will write acclaimed textbooks on electronics,

                       and have a distinguished career with Rockwell and RCA.

 8 Sept 1930  Gladys Bacon is dating Eddie, who I believe she eventually marries. 

                      She is bugging Henry about him.

22 Sept 1930  Apparently at the wedding celebration at the farm Henry and Gladys got to

                     singing a French song.  She's all wrought up over being in a triangle with Henry

                     and Eddie.  Her brother William Bacon is a junior at M.U. and has bought a Ford.

                     Her brother Victor Bacon is planning to marry Edna from Winfield.

11 Oct 1930  Gladys Bacon has had her class of Sunday School girls out for a weekend at a

                      church camp on the Meramac River.  "Camp Friloha"  Henry has called her.

                       He is back from one of his motorcycle trips west and send her a picture.

                       Henry and Alma are planning on going to Victor Bacon's wedding.

 1 Nov 1930    Henry has pledged $100 to help build the Student Union at the University of

                       Missouri.  They are wanting the money.

            1931   Croquet is the game.  The two courts are on the south side of Bonfils

                       Auditorium, next to Dr W. P. Smith's house.  Dr Smith played regularly.

                       The Depression hits and all are affected.  The Bank in Hawk Point

                       survives.  One of the Troy banks will fail.  Family members with

                       money on deposit there will lose most of it.  It will not be over until1941.

                       The "concrete slab", highway 61 is being finished.  Orion and the neighbors

                       want to build a road along the edge of the bottom to tie in with it.

                       They are blocked by Rome Harlan, who wants his cows to move freely

                       across the area the where road will be.  Orion gets frustrated and says

                       he's going to go see Rome, roll up his sleeves and whip him.  The

                       neighbors cool him off, and Rome eventually forces them to build

                       him a cattle underpass for the road.

13 Feb 1932   Professor Burton L. Smith dies in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. .  His

                       body is returned to Troy for burial in the City Cemetery.  One of his

                       photos has Doctor written on it.  His degrees are currently unknown.

27 Feb 1932   Burton's wife Anna, buys a burial plot for him, in Joseph and

                       Artilla Rinaman's plot.

28 Feb 1932   Last letter Gladys Bacon writes Henry.  Apparently at some time he took her

                       hunting for arrowheads in the corn field.  She's about to get her drivers license.

            1932   Orion is elected Clerk of Carter Hall School Board.  Salary is $10/year.

10 April 1932  Dr William P. Smith's son Merrill, is on the USS Black Hawk, a destroyer

                       tender, at Shanghai, China, watching the Japanese bomb the Woasung Forts.

                      He has been in the city and seen the damage from bombing and artillery.

                      The ship had been in Manila, in the Philippines.  The Japanese cease

                      the attack after the U.S. and other nations ships arrive. 

                      The Japanese have been in Manchuria since the late 1920's. 

                      They begin the complete takeover of Manchuria on 18 Sept 1931.  They will

                      invade Shanghai in 1935.  Merril has written Henry and is giving him a bad time

                      about a motorcycle accident Henry has had on a trip back from Laddonia, Mo.. 

                      Henry had a Harley Davidson, which has now been replaced by a Chevy coupe. 

                      Merrill also had a motorcyle and took the trip west with Henry a year or two

                      earlier.  They stopped at George Carwell's in Kansas.  At some point in the trip

                      they chased jackrabbits with them.

23 Dec 1933  Henry has sent a Christmas card to Berenice Meyers in St. Louis.

3 April 1934   Last record of Orion serving as Secretary of Carter Hall School.

17 April 1934  Hildia Black has called out to the farm for Henry.  Apparently Lydia answered

                       the phone and told her "it  wasn't any of her business whether Henry was home or not"

                       Henry gets a letter wanting him to come see her.  Lydia obviously disapproves

                       of forward girls.

 5 Aug 1934   Welty Smith dies at his daughter, Mary Ella Smith Bennett's house,

                      in Troy, Lincoln Co. Mo.  He is 85 years old.

10 Nov 1934  Henry is living in Flat River, Mo.  Orion has been picking corn on Mrs Young's land.

                      Buster the dog, came in and pulled the window shade down on his back with

                       his tail the other morning.  Made him yelp.

23 Nov 1934  George Carwell and wife, from Kansas, have been visiting Orion and Lydia. 

                      The "shredder" has been at the farm.

 4 Dec 1934  Henry is working at the County Relief Office in Crystal City, Mo.  Orion has sold

                     16 hogs, a veal calf, and a white faced cow.  Apparently

                     the corn is cut and put into shocks, then the process of getting the corn is called

                     shredding.  Orion's car is in the shop.  Schaper, the car dealer, lent him a car but

                      he took it back because the wheels shimmied so badly.

11 Dec 1934  Henry seems to have gotten married.

27 Dec 1934  Orion's dog Buster spends the nights in the old Harvey house, so it's still standing.

                      Orion's sow has had a litter of pigs.  Sounds like 6 will make it.

13 Jan 1935  Tom and Adeline Kemper, and Johanna Carwell are coming to visit Orion

                     and Lydia.  Johanna will stay a while.  They are going to butcher a hog. 

                     Lydia has gone east to see Marguerite recently.  She is looking for a visit from

                     Henry and his new wife Myrtle the next Sunday.

18 Jan 1935   Henry is working at the Farm Bureau, at 7821 Forsythe, in Clayton, Mo.

8 Feb. 1935   Dr William P. Smith dies, Troy, Mo. A flue epidemic in Troy, put

                       two doctors in the hospital, a third left town because of a sick Mother.

                      "Uncle Doctor" was the sole physician in town for the week before he

                       collapsed. He died of a acute kidney infection after two weeks in a

                        St Louis hospital.  The obituary says Amos is in Omaha, Neb.

  4 Mar 1935  Henry lives at 9018 Bristol Ave. in Overland.  Johannah Carwell is still at Orion's

                      and Lydia's.  They are sowing oats.  Lydia keeps promising to cook some guinnias

                      for Henry when he comes.

21 Mar 1935  Henry is living at 9018 Bristol Ave., Overland, Mo.  He's been up to Columbia

                      to visit his buddy Harold Long, and get some advice concerning women.

13 Mar 1935  Henry's girl Myrtle, has been broadcasting on the radio.  Orion's radio isn't working

                      so they miss it.  Orion has sold some 22 more hogs.  He gets $440. for them.

10 Apr 1935  Henry announces by letter, that he and Myrtle have gotten married.

21 Dec 1935  Orion invites Henry and Myrtle up for Christmas.

2 Oct 1935    Orion and Lydia are traveling.  Lydia seems to be in Pennsylvania;

                       helping after the birth of Willard, to Marguerite.  Orion and Alma have

                       gone to Kansas to visit the George Carwells.  When they get home from

                       Kansas, Orion takes Alma to the movies in Troy, at the Blue Jay Theater.  

                       She wins a $180 door prize.  The crowd filled the theater, and overflowed

                       into the street, all the way to the Baptist Church.  They gave Alma a rousing cheer.          

15 Aug 1936   Ossie Smith leases 65 acres of the Welty Smith home place from

                       Orion, Verner, and Elbert.  He has the right to live on the place

                       till 1 March 1937.

      fall 1936  The drought finally ends.  Six of the last seven years have been very hot, and

                      short on rain.

18 Oct 1936  Henry and Myrtle are apparently still together, but thinking about moving.

20 Dec 1936  Henry and Myrtle are in the process of getting divorced.

           1936   A rift develops between the Verner Smith and Orion Smith families. 

                      Orion's son Henry, has married and divorced a girl he met through

                      Verner's son.  Henry's mother, Lydia, blames Verner's family for the disaster. 

                      The children ignore the adults and remain friends.  The problem seems

                      to be mainly between Lydia and Anna.  They will eventually reconcile.

25 Mar 1937   The Welty Smith home place is sold.  Elbert has sold his home

                        place and moved to Davis.

 5 May 1937  Henry has been living at 7057 Stanford Ave. in University City, since Dec.. 

                      Orion has been in St Louis, buying baby chickens, but didn't stop by.

15 Aug 1937   Mrs. Amos H. Smith (Edna Allison) dies.  Suicide.  Amos will remarry.

10 Sept 1937   A final family reunion is held at the William Smith Sr. home place.

                        Ossie, Verner, Elbert, Falsie, and the descendants of many of the other

                         second family members attend.

      Dec 1937   Amos is in Omaha Nebraska, working in the Engineering Division, of

                         the Corp of Engineers?  They are dredging the Missouri River.

21 Jan 1938     Orion has sold 24 hogs.  He got $477 for them.  The Lincoln county Sheriff and

                        deputies have been out, wanting Henry's address.  The Clayton sheriff called to

                        ask if Orion had Henry's license plates.  Orion's puzzled, Henry has either

                        been in an accident or witnessed on.

 7 Feb 1938      Henry has been broadcasting farm news on the radio.  Orion heard him.

17 Feb 1938    Orion has sold the mare.  Henry has been on the radio again.  Buster the dog,

                        won't listen to him.

             1939   Mrs. William P. Smith dies, Troy, Mo.

  2 Apr 1938     Henry is living at 7057 Stanford, University City, Mo.  He is responsible for

                         two counties.  It is not clear whether he still works for the Farm Bureau or a

                         Federal Agency.  His buddy, John Rogers, from Marshall, Mo. repays a loan

                         Henry made to him.

 1 Sept 1939      World War II begins.

 

  9 Aug 1940    Alma, Orion's daughter, receives her Batchelor of Science in Education

                        degree from the State Teachers College, in Kirksville, Missouri.

24 Aug 1940   Harvey Elbert Smith dies, Lincoln Co. Mo.

  9 Nov 1940   Amos Smith marries Edna Jean Holland.  They will move to Kansas City.

             1941   Theron Smith is renting land and farming about a mile E of

                        Orion.  The rift between the brothers does not prevent Orion from

                        taking his milk cow down to Theron's for breeding with his bull

                        once a year.  Electricity reaches the farm.  Orion buys the family a

                        refrigerator for Christmas.  It ran for 50 years.

  7 Dec 1941   The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.  The United States has entered WWII.

                        Allen Smith, Uncle Doctors son, is stationed at Pearl Harbor during the

                        attack.  He will retire after the war with the rank of Lt Col. 

                        He was in the Signal Corp.

             1942   Keithley opens the first limestone quarry on Orion's land.

                        Keithley ran the quarry for a while, then the Watson brothers took

                        over.  Concrete Materials opened a second face for a few years.  

                        Magruder Quarries currently is the operator.  Orion had bought the

                        land the quarry opened on for back taxes.  Eventually some of the

                        Harvey's from Texas showed up, wanting a share.  Orion sent them

                        back to Texas without any satisfaction.

     Aug 1942   Amos Herbert Smith dies.  He is buried in Kansas City.

       1942-43   Last year of operation for Carter Hall School.  Alma Smith is the teacher.

                       She is still walking the mile to school each day from home.

                       Her students include the following descendants of Lee Annah Smith Creech.

                       Francis Mozier 5th grade, John Mozier 3rd grade, and Judy Mozier 1st grade. 

                       Francis will go on to get a BA in History at the U. of Mo., John will get a Dr in

                       Veterinary Medicine from U. of Mo. and Judy will become President of Hechler

                       Hardware.  Judy is also a Committee woman in the Republican Party in Missouri,

                       and a power in local politics and events. In the prior generation,

                       Henry Smith got a BS in Agriculture at the U. of Mo.,

                       Marguerite Smith a BS in Education at Washington U., and Alma Smith a BS

                       in Education from Kirksville.  I'm certain many other students who got

                       their primary education at this school also went on to college and received

                       degrees.  Not bad for a one room schoolhouse with one teacher.

 7 May 1945   Germany surrenders.

 2 Sept 1945   Japan surrenders.  WW II is over.

1945-46 School year.  Alma is teaching at Nelson School.  I believe this was at Winfield.

   Late 1940's  Dr James Ernest Smith, Theron's rejected son comes back to Troy

                      and visits Verner.  He has had a wonderful career developing computers.

 3 July 1946   Mary Ella Smith Bennett dies, Troy, Mo.  Nannie Ethyl and family are in

                      Troy, and visit Orion at the farm.  The kids get their picture taken

                      with his mules, and they take home to Bloomington, Wisconsin, some of

                      his sorghum to make Christmas cookies with.

                     

            1947   Oswald Smith retires, and moves to Liege Mo.

 2 Aug 1947   Mary Ella's husband Richard T. Bennett dies, Troy, Mo.

13 Apr 1949   Verner has a heart attack.

14 Apr 1949   Verner Conrad Smith dies, Lincoln Co.  Ossie is living at Liege.

 

18 Jan 1950    Sam Lorton has an accident on Orion's farm.

 5 Oct 1950    Sam Lorton has sued Orion and Robert W. Creech over the accident. 

                      He wants $5,000.  The nature of the accident, and the outcome of the

                       suit is unknown.

            1951   Lydia and Anna, Orion and Verner's wife's have reconciled their differences.

                       Anna is living in Overland, and Orion is helping her with the decisions

                       about her farm in Lincoln Co.

            1952   Nannie Ethel Smith Welsh is living in Bloomington, Wisconsin.

  4 Feb 1952   Mrs. Orion R. Smith, (Lydia Carwell) dies. Lincoln Co.

21 Mar 1952   Orion Russell Smith dies, Lincoln Co. Mo.

     Fall 1952    The rock Indian mound on Orion's farm is excavated by Dr's Virginia and

                       James B. Watson of Washington University, St Louis.  Sixteen burials were

                       found, and others had been previously disturbed.  A large ceremonial blade

                       of flint, 9 and ¾ inches long was found with a adult male.  Title to the blade

                       was retained by the Smith Heirs, but possession remains with the Watsons.

                      Results of the excavation were published in The Missouri Archaelogist, Vol 19,

                       No3, Oct 1957.  Willard gets to help a little on the edge of the mound.

 14 Jan 1953   Mrs. Oswald Smith (Lillian Lampley) dies in Liege, Mo.. 

                       Oswald Smith moves to Bellflower, Lincoln Co.

13 Sept 1953  The second Rinaman reunion is underway at the Troy Fair Ground Park.  The

                       descendants of Welty and Artilla attend.  Nannie Ethyl Smith Welsh and family

                       are present from Wisconsin.  Ossie Smith is present.  He is living in Liege, Mo.

25 Nov 1953   Theron Welty Smith dies, Lincoln Co.

11 Sept 1954   Nannie Ethel Smith Welsh dies.

12 Sept 1954  The third Rinaman Reunion is held in Troy.  Eighty eight descendants,

                       families and guests attend.

11 Sept 1955    The 4rth annual Reunion of the Rinaman family is held in Troy. 

                       Sixty Nine family members, descended from the Welty Smith and

                      Artilla Smith Rinaman families attend.  Oswald "Ossie" B. Smith of Bellflower

                      is present, as is Leola Folsom Smith Bohmer and her husband Ed.

15 Sept 1957  The 5th Rinaman Reunion is held at Troy.  Eighty three attend.

21 Sept 1958  The 6th Rinaman Reunion is held at Troy.   Ossie and Leola Folsom  attend.

20 Sept 1959  The 7th Rinaman Reunion is held at Troy.  Seventy Three attend. 

                      Ossie and Leola Folsum are there.

 1 July 1960   The eighth and apparently final Rinaman Reunion is held at Troy.

 31 Jan 1961   Oswald "Ossie"Brandell Smith dies. Troy, Mo.

    June 1961   Orion's daughters, Marguerite and Alma spend 29 days touring Alaska.  It is a

                      Northeast Missouri Teachers College tour, for credit.  They get to Point Barrow,

                      North of the Artic circle.

            1962   Nannie Ethel's husband, Earl Welsh dies.

10 July 1963   Leola Folsom Smiths husband, Edward Bohmer dies Lincoln Co.

 

            1967   Theron's rejected son, Dr James Ernest Smith, dies in West Newton, Mass.

                       He was a pioneer in computer technology, graduating from Jamestown

                        College, earning a Masters Degree in electrical engineering at Brooklyn

                        Polytechnic Institute, and was a graduate scholar at the California

                        Institute of Technology.  He was given a Honorary degree of Doctor

                        of Science from Jamestown.  He taught Electrical engineering at New

                       York University, and Communications engineering at the RCA Institutes.

                       He had 19 patents, and had published numerous technical articles and

                        books.  He began his career as Research and Division head

                        at the Radio Corporation of America.  He then moved to become the

                        Assistant Vice President and Director of Engineering at Raytheon Inc.

                        He then became Vice president of Electronic Data Processing at Honeywell Inc.

                        His career spanned the development of the first two generations of computers.

 

             1971   Mrs. Vernon C. Smith (Annie Carwell) dies, Troy, Mo.

20 May 1972   Mrs. Harvey Elbert Smith (Hattie H. Kinon) dies, Lincoln Co.

                        She is buried with her husband in the Sulphur Lick Cem.

20 Sep 1973   Leola Folsom Smith Bohmer dies, Lincoln Co.

 

 1 Nov 1975   Mrs. Theron W. Smith (Essie Mae Trail) dies in Ironton, Mo.

                       She is buried with her husband in the Sulphur Lick Cem.

 

The data in this log has been derived from material collected by Mrs. Patsy Creech,

 Mrs. Alice Johnson, Mrs. Julia Hechler, Mrs. Lillian Martin, Mr. Stanley Bacon,

 Mr. Verne Smith, and the author.  This log was compiled by Willard Smith Bacon,

120 Beechwood Circle, Manchester Tn 37355, 931 728 7973, willbacon@charter.net