From Castles to America » John Smith Sr. (1802-1884)

Personal data John Smith Sr. 


Household of John Smith Sr.

He is married to Nancy Giddings.

They got married on February 25, 1830, he was 27 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. John Ferdinand Smith  1830-1906 
  2. William B. Smith  1831-1855
  3. Catherine Smith  1833-1856
  4. Mary Smith  1836-1931 
  5. David Smith  1839-????
  6. Lydia Smith  1842-1916 
  7. Elizabeth Smith  1844-1850
  8. Candace Ellen Smith  1851-1852


Notes about John Smith Sr.


Sheridan, Placer, California, USA Aug. 23, 1802 Berks County Pennsylvania, USA Death: Apr. 7, 1884 Sheridan (Placer County) Placer County California, USA OHIO/CALIFORNIA GUNMAKER John was a gunsmith at Hessville, Ohio and Sheridan, California. John Smith was never recorded as a gunsmith, but several rifles are known to exist with barrels marked "John Smith, Sacramento CAl." North of Sacramento in a small town gunsmithing tools positively linked to John smith by way of his granddaughter giving a percussion double rifle stamped John Smith to a gentleman that had lived on the ranch were John Smith made his guns. That granddaughter was Edna J. (Karchner) Hoffman who lived beyond 96 years of age at the time the article I saw was written. She had been a school teacher. Research has John's father listed David Smith, a Pennsylvania/Ohio gunsmith, and Peter Smith (possibly David's father). Peter Smith was a gunsmith born in 1756 near Longswamp, Berks Co., Pennsylvania. He was in service in the Revolutionary War. David Smith was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania on March 3, 1780. He married Catherine Blank and they had seven sons and six daughters, the first 11 being born in Berks County. The family moved to Columbian County, Ohio. He was a the first permanent settler of Madison. He was elected Justice of the Peace. By trade he was a gunsmith. He died August 6, 1863. *(1863)* is a guess as what I was reading was blurred here. John married Nancy Gidding on Feb 25, 1830 and had 7 children. His daughter Mary married Nicholas Harrison Karchner, In 1862, they headed west to California in a covered wagon. In 1865 they had a ranch near Sheridan, California. In 1870 he joined his daughter in California after his wife had passed and his children were grown. The day he died he had been working in his shop. He was found by his son-in-law collapsed between the shop and the house. A saying about him: That he walked to fast for a man and not fast enough for beast. He was neither company for man or beast. ------------------ Added: Mar. 9, 2014 John Smith's California gun shop was sold to a collecter ,his guns and gun making tools later sold to the Frazier Museum, Louiville , Ky. as a permanent display. -Anonymous ------------------ Apr 29, 2014 Smith Family history states that son, John Smith , the gunsmith, in his old age went to California to live with his daughter Mary Karshner after his wife and other children had all died, not after the children had grown. Family links: Parents: David Smith (1780 - 1868) Mary Catharine Blanck Smith (1783 - 1857) Spouse: Nancy Giddings Smith (1811 - 1859)* Children: William Smith (1831 - 1855)* Catherine Smith (1833 - 1856)* Lydia Smith Ragsdale (1842 - 1916)* Elizabeth Smith (1844 - 1850)* Candace Ellen Smith (1852 - 1855)* Siblings: John Smith (1802 - 1884) Sophia Smith Teeters (1806 - 1887)* Caroline Smith Kille (1810 - 1885)* Daniel Smith (1814 - 1902)* * Burial: Manzanita Cemetery Lincoln Placer County California, USA -------------------------------------------- ohn Smith Event Type: Voter Registration Event Date: 04 Aug 1871 Event Place: Lincoln, Placer, California, United States Age: 69 Birth Year (Estimated): 1802 Birthplace: Pennsylvania

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Ancestors (and descendant) of John Smith

Peter Blank
1757-1840
Catherine Ann Blank
1755-1842
David Smith
1780-1868

John Smith
1802-1884

1830

Nancy Giddings
1811-1859

John Ferdinand Smith
1830-1906
William B. Smith
1831-1855
Catherine Smith
1833-1856
Mary Smith
1836-1931
David Smith
1839-????
Lydia Smith
1842-1916
Elizabeth Smith
1844-1850
Candace Ellen Smith
1851-1852

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Birthday August 23, 1802

  • The temperature on August 23, 1802 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: onweer zwaar storm(achtig) regen. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1802: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 28 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.
    • April 21 » Twelve thousand Wahhabis under Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad, invaded city of Karbala, killed over three thousand inhabitants, and sacked the city.
    • April 26 » Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
    • May 28 » In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops.
    • June 4 » King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
    • September 3 » William Wordsworth composes the sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802".

Day of marriage February 25, 1830

  • The temperature on February 25, 1830 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1830: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.6 million citizens.
    • April 6 » Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith and others at either Fayette or Manchester, New York.
    • June 14 » Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: Thirty-four thousand French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
    • June 26 » William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
    • July 13 » The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengali Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
    • August 25 » The Belgian Revolution begins.
    • August 28 » The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.

Day of death April 7, 1884

  • The temperature on April 7, 1884 was about 14.9 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
    • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
    • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
    • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
    • October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
    • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.


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