Husband: James Porter Smith
Also known as: Porter Smith 1,2
Born: Apr-15-1872 in Doddridge Co, WV 3,4
Died: 1928 4
Buried: in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV 5
Resided: 1915 in Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV 6
Census: 1900, 1910 in Union District, Ritchie Co, WV
Occupation: farmer 2
Father: James Wesley Smith (1833 - 1914)
Mother: Elmina Ellen Haught (1842 - 1912)
Wife: Abigail L. "Abbie" Hayden 7,8 Married: Aug-16-1891 in Ritchie Co, WV 9
Born: 1871 in Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV 4,10,11 Died: Nov-10-1941 in Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV 12,13,4 Buried: in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV 5 Resided: 1914, 1937 in Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV 11,14 Census: 1900, 1910 in Union District, Ritchie Co, WV Father: Isaac Hayden (1821 - 1894) Mother: Elizabeth Ann Tharp (1834 - 1913) Notes
M Child 1: Porter Ford Smith Also known as: Ford Smith 15,16 Born: May-16-1892 at Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV 17,15,16,2 Died: May- 8-1914 in Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV 15,16 Buried: in Pullman Cemetery, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV 15,18 Cause of death: typhoid fever 15 Census: 1900, 1910 in Union District, Ritchie Co, WV Occupation: mill man 15 Wife: Dicie Marion Bell b. Jun-20-1894 d. Oct- 7-1974 Also known as: M. Dicie Bell 19
M Child 2: Isaac Gilbert Smith Also known as: I. Gilbert Smith 16 Born: Mar-17-1894 in Doddridge Co, WV 20,16,2 Died: Nov-14-1907 16 Buried: in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV 5 Census: 1900 in Union District, Ritchie Co, WV
M Child 3: Orla Bryan Smith Also known as: O. Bryan Smith 16 Born: Mar-26-1897 at Arnolds Creek (West Union), Doddridge Co, WV 21,22,4 Died: Oct- -1962 22,4 Buried: in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV 5 Resided: 1941 in Salem, WV 23 Census: 1930 in Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV 24 Census: 1900, 1910, 1920 in Union District, Ritchie Co, WV Occupation: 1930 oil well driller 24 Occupation: 1920 tool dresser in oil fields 25 Wife: Faye Kathryn Barnes b. Sep- -1892 d. 1967 Married: 1914 in Ritchie Co, WV 26
Sources: (1) Obituary of wife's brother. (2) 1900 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Union District). (3) Doddridge County Birth Records, West Union, WV, Identified as James P. Smith, son of James W. Smith and Elmina Ellen Smith. BR Bk 1, p. 58. (4) Headstone (year only) (5) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. (6) Obituary of sister's husband. (7) W. B. Haught, Genealogy of the Haught Family of America (1948), p. 167. (8) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 245. (9) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) (10) Birth record of daughter. (11) Death record of son. (12) Ritchie County Death Records, Harrisville, WV. (13) Obituary. (14) Obituary of sister. (15) Ohio County Death Records, Wheeling, WV, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=5652041&Type=Death. (16) Headstone. (17) Doddridge County Birth Records, West Union, WV, Identified as (first name blank) Smith, male, b. May 16 1892 at Oxford, son of J. P. Smith & A. L. Hayden Smith. (18) Findagrave.com, Name on headstone: Ford Smith. (19) West Virginia Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. (20) Doddridge County Birth Records, West Union, WV, Identified as (first name blank) Smith, female (sic), b. Mar 17 1894, father James P. Smith (age 21, b. Doddridge Co, farmer), mother Abby Haden (or Hayden) (age 21, b. Ritchie Co), this being the second child born to this mother. There was no entry to indicate whether it was a live birth or stillborn, or whether it was a multiple birth. (Note: The 1900 Census shows the family of Porter & Abbie Smith to have three sons, one of them being Isaac G. Smith, born in March 1894. "Ritchie County Cemeteries through 1993," p. 493, reports a burial at Auburn Community Cemetery for I. Gilbert Smith, son of Porter & Abbie Smith. BR Bk 2, p. 321. (21) Doddridge County Birth Records, West Union, WV, Identified as Orlie Bryan Smith, b. Mar 26 1897 at Arnolds Creek, son of Porter Smith & Abbie Hayden Smith. BR Bk 3, p. 184. (22) Social Security Death Index. (23) Obituary of mother. (24) 1930 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Union District). (25) 1920 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Union District). (26) West Virginia Marriages Index, 1785-1971 [database on-line], Ancestry.com.