He is married to Amanda Wells.
They got married on June 24, 1841.
West Virginia and Its People, Volume 2
pg 241
(III) David M.. son of Isaac and (Birkhead) Smith, was born
near Centerville, Tyler county, Virginia. He was a merchant at Centerville, till he retired from business activity. In his young manhood, he was on two occasions elected assessor of the county. He married Margaret, daughter of Dr. Samuel and Amanda (Wells) Morey. who died in 1879. Child: Harry W., of whom further.
The Conaways of Marion and Tyler Counties, West Virginia, part2
CHAPTER TWO
page 9
William Wells devised Stonehurst to Oliver and devised certain other real and personal property, including negroes, to Amanda. The Ankrom family was old and influential in western Virginia. On June 24, 1841, Amanda was married to Doctor Samuel C. Morey of Lake Morey, Vermont. They lived in Middlebourne in the home now owned by Ann T. Conaway. Their children were William Swift, drowned at the mouth of McElroy in 1865, David H. and Margaret, who married David M. Smith. Harrison Smith, editor and political writer, was the son of David and Margaret Smith.
Amandas second husband was Harrison H. Hardman of Harrison County, born in 1814, the grandson of Joseph. He came to Tyler County in 1832 and was sheriff for many years. He died in 1864. Their children were Oliver Waitman Orr, Henry Clay, who died in childhood, Frank D., Henry H., Florence and Harriet. Oliver Waitman Orr married Lydia Ann Peterson, daughter of Sydney Mountain and Catherine Luvisa Huffman Peterson. Their children were Benjamin, who married Mabel Howard, and Margaret, who married William Henry Theiss. The children of Benjamin and Mabel are Sue and Sarah and the daughter of Henry and Margaret is Ann Hardman who married Orrin B. Conaway, Jr. Sydney M. Peterson was a delegate to the convention that nominated Lincoln at the Wigwam in Chicago in 1860. The Petersons and Huffmans lived near Pittsburgh but Sydney M. went from there to Wood County and later in life to New Martinsville. He was a delegate to the Wheeling Conven?tion of May 13, 1861. They are buried at Jefferson Methodist Church at Gill Hall, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, which is southeast of Pittsburgh and near Cochran s Mills.
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