By Ben Donoho
Are you a descendant of Jerusha Smith Peirce and is your name shown as her descendant on the www.hyrumsmith.org web site? If so, you are one of about 650 others found there. How about checking to see if the descendant information is correct?
And if you could add to the information, all the better. We can thank cousins Earl Peirce, Arvid Webster, and others for their cumulative effort and for sharing what we know about the 650.
We realize the 650 is the tip of the iceberg. How about submitting to us any information you might have about your relatives who we have not yet been identified? And don’t forget: please include any corrections. No doubt some are needed.
We are also interested in becoming aware of reunions or other organized family activities that may have occurred among Jerusha’s descendants. The details of who, where, what, and when would be useful to know about. For example, you may be interested to know that Earl Peirce published a limited edition of an interesting volume called Biography and History, Jerusha Barden Smith, Patriarch John Smith. It is based on earlier work done by Jerry C. Roundy and Ralph Gibbs Smith.