Thomas Smith

Smith/Hodgkinson

We have gotten reports back that you are enjoying the Family History Friday.  SO ARE WE!!  Dad and I have tried to be organized in our approach with these conversion stories.   We thought it would be nice to follow the main lines first  - Cornwall, Neeley, Hodgkinson, Smith, so we have featured Joseph Cornwall and Lewis Neeley Sr. - as shown in the fan chart above (Blue - Cornwall line, pink - Neeley line).

We have posted the Hodgkinson line (in blue including Sarah Melsome Hughes) and today we will finish with the second main line from my side the Smiths (found in pink in the fan chart above). 

The details of the actual conversion of Thomas Smith are minimal, but there is a life sketch about him that is quite interesting, taken from the Thomas Smith Family Association.
Thomas Smith was born November 8, 1812 at Coseley, Staffordshire, England. He was the son of Samuel Smith and Sarah Cooksey. He was the eighth child in the family of six brothers and three sisters. Thomas’ education began at the age of five in the school of hard knocks. He learned the trade of brick mason – carrying bricks, and mixing mortar and the many other little jobs he had learned the hard way. Going to work early in the morning and working until late at night. The only amusement enjoyed was going to the public square on Saturday evening. He had a choice of work or going to church on Sundays. Thomas Smith was married to Susan Britten in the year 1834. To this union was born two children, James and Mary Ann Smith. When Mary Ann was 18 months old her mother died. Thomas again married—this time to Susannah Harback. September 13, 1842 at Bromsgrove Worcestershire. To this marriage was born eight children, namely Ann, George, Ephraim, Manasseh, Daniel, Robert, David and Charles. The second wife died in 1856 in England and in the year 1857 he married Harriet Ann Pinder. Parents James Pinder, Ann Webb. She bore 13 children.  Thomas accepted and joined the Mormon Church and came to this country in 1882 and settled in Murray, Utah. He died April 29, 1898 and was buried Mary 1, 1898 in Cottonwood Cemetery in Murray.

Our line comes from Daniel Smith, born to the second wife Susannah Harback.  Family Search differs in the amount of children he had - but he had was at least 20 and could have been 23.  No wonder he didn't have time to write his personal history.