William Reed SMITH
Internet IGI, Nov 2008
Ancestry World Tree
Pedigree Resource File
Birthplace is listed as "Near Farmersville" in the Yonge township.
Birth/Chr: 920,0453 LDS Biog.Encycl.by And.Jensen, Vol 1, pg 802-3; Addison, Leeds vital records
Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register lists birth as 11 Aug 1825
Marriage(1)
Marriage(2) GSF 183,395 EH sealings, 6 May 1856, BkC,p.12,#56
Marriage(3) GSF 183,395 EH sealings, 19 Apr 1857, BkC,p.176,#1136
Marriage(4) GSF 183,395 EH sealings, 23 Apr 1857, BkC,pg 188 #1217
Marriage(5) GSF 183,396 EH sealings, 5 Sep 1868, BkE,p.162,#11461
Death/Bur: GSF 821,688 Obituary - News 16 Jan 1894
LDS Bapt: GSF 025,855 Centerville Ward Records (Re-bapt.29 Sep. 1856)
Endowment: GSF 183,372 Nauvoo Endow, 2 Feb 1846, BkA,p.266,#2893
Sealing: GSF 537,200 LA sealings of children, 24 Oct 1967
Sealing(1) GSF 183,395 EH sealings, 20 Jul 1861, BkC,p.536,#3646
Sealing(2) GSF 183,395 EH sealings, 6 May 1856, BkC,p.12,#56
Sealing(3) GSF 183,395 EH sealings, 19 Apr 1857, BkC,p.176,#1136
Sealing(4) GSF 183,395 EH sealings, 23 Apr 1857, BkC,p.188,#1217
Sealing(5) GSF 183,395 EH sealings, 5 Sep 1868, BkE,p.162,#11461
Sealing to Parents: have a dates of:
24 Oct 1967 LANGE.
4 Oct 1951 SLAKE
1 Apr 1951 SLAKE
The change of spelling from "Smyth to Smith" began with William Read Smith
or those who raised him (Samuel and Fanny Dack Parrish)
Born at: Galens Grove, Galland's Grove, or Gallanders Grove, Pottawattomi, Iowa ??
(Near Winter Quarters)
Family records indicate born 14 Oct 1850, TIB card indicates 14 Oct 1851.
Sealed to Wm. Reed Smith by D.H. Wells, witnesses - A.H. Raleigh and W.W. Phelps.
TIB card indicates name as Melvie Reed Smith.
Excomm. 28 Sep 1900, Re-bap. 24 Dec 1900
(This info may have been from Ward Records)
He married Eleanor (Nellie) Felshaw 5 Apr 1868 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah . Eleanor (Nellie) Felshaw was born at Callander'sgrove, Council Bluffs, Iowa 14 Oct 1850 .
They were the parents of 5
children:
(son) Smith
born 1869.
Melvie Reed Smith
born 13 Feb 1873.
David Felshaw Smith
born 30 Jan 1878.
Moses Carlos Smith
born 13 Feb 1880.
Eleanor Lois Smith
born 30 Jul 1883.
William Reed Smith died 15 Jan 1894 at Centerville, Davis, Utah .
Eleanor (Nellie) Felshaw died 9 Apr 1903 at Centerville, Davis, Utah .


