Happy Birthday Daniel - not Daniel Anderson - Daniel Smith

 Daniel Smith was born on April 14, 1845 in Worcestershire England.  He was the third of nine children born to Thomas Smith and Susanna Harbach.  The story of his parent's lives and their conversion can be found here.  Daniel married Caroline Burr when he was twenty two in Worcester, Worcestershire England on April 22, 1867 (Is Worcester a  suburb of Worestershire???).   They had four children before they arrived in Salt Lake in 1874.  There are no journals or historical documents for Daniel or Caroline Burr, but there is a story by looking at the data.  1874 plays a big part of their historical record.  There is a custom event document in their record showing they arrived in America in 1874.  There is also a record of the birth of two children a boy and a girl - twins.  It shows they were born in Salt Lake, no exact date, but they must have died at birth because the death date is also 1874.  What happened, how far along was she, did the stress of the trip cause premature labor?  We will have to look forward to asking Caroline about that ourselves.  They went on to have five more children.  Two of those were also twins, two little boys named  Manasseh and Daniel Mohonri Moriancumer. (Does that tell us how they felt about the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, the gospel of Jesus Christ??)  Daniel died at the age of seven but Manasseh  grew to adulthood where he married Gracie Gilbert and had Ilo Leslie Smith.  Hey you guys - we have twins in our genes.  We learned in our "On The Job" posts that Daniel was a brick mason.  I found the picture below of the house he built in the Murray Digital Library Archive. 

I found the picture above when I went into Family Search a few weeks ago to study about Daniel's life.  Here is the description, written by the person who uploaded the picture. 
"Daniel and first wife Caroline Burr lived in this home. After her death and he married Hannah she moved into the home and lived there until her death."   Here he is a brick mason and he moved into a wood-sided Victorian???   It didn't make sense to me and look at the picture - Reliable Rentals?   This was a story for "Geneology Hunters".  It is a show on PBS that goes after stories like this.  I googled Reliable Rentals in Murray.  Reliable rentals is a pretty common word in google search.  I wrote the woman who had posted the picture, asked her who she was related to and asked her to tell me everything about the photo, what city, what street, what does she know about it.  She wrote me back and said she is from the second wife - Hannah Marie Teakle.  The house is at 4800 State Street in Murray.  You can tell that businesses popped up around the house and that this house was used as a business.  She said she was able to take the picture herself right before it was torn down.  What does living on State Street in at the turn of the century mean.  Look at what Murray looked like when the house was built (below).  Did it mean you were a prominent citizen, was it the good part of town, bad part of town, did it mean you were elite or poor?  I went into Hannah's history to see if she had written anything about it.   That is when I discovered something interesting.  When I went onto her page and looked at her husband's picture bells went off.  He looked so familiar.  It is because he was Daniel's brother, who was just a year older than he was.  Daniel married his sister-in-law after the death of his brother George.  They lived together for six years until Hannah died in 1824 leaving Daniel a widow for the second time.  He then married Martha Mary Jackson.  At the time of his death, March 26, 1928, only four of his nine children were living.   What can we learn about this story - lots.  One thing for sure - make sure you write your own story.  Don't leave your story for Geneology Hunters to make assumptions.  Happy Birthday Daniel.