By Robert Smith
The Samuel H Smith Family has come along way in identifying the descendants of Samuel H Smith and Mary Bailey. Currently we have asked 5 individuals to help with research with the different branches of the Family. Samuel had four children that lived past infancy, of those children only Samuel Harrison Bailey Smith had children. Samuel H. B. Smith had four wives Mary Catherine Smith, Julia Winter, Clara Tuttle and Rachel Tuttle. Hyrum and Raymond Smith Great grandson of Samuel H. Smith have been asked to help identify descendants of Samuel H. B. Smith and Mary Catherine Smith.
The biggest areas to identify are the descendants of Samuel B. Smith and Cumorah Smith Burns. Julia Winter Family has been assigned to Nola Smith a great great grand daughter of Samuel H. The area where there is the least known is the descendants of Grace Levira Smith Kerr one of the daughters Samuel H.B. and Julia Winter. Rex Smith a great Grandson identified Clara Tuttle descendants, and since his passing Boyd Smith Rex’s brother has been asked to update their Family information. Rachel Tuttle and Samuel H. B. Smith had only one Son Heman Tuttle Smith, yet from that one son came a large Family that still meets together as a Family organization. Melvin Smith a great Grandson has provided the information for that branch of the Family.
We have purchased the license for www.SamuelHSmith.com and org. on the Internet and asked David Lee Smith to be the Web Master. The sight currently links directly to www.Josephsmithsr.com. If you have any pictures or information that you feel should be on our Family web site please contact me at Bob_Smith@byu.edu.
Buddy Youngreen has asked if the Samuel Family descendants would help with the dinner at Brighton during the Family Reunion in August This will be on Friday Aug 3 at 5:00 PM at the Brighton LDS chapel. If you would like to help Please email me at Bob_Smith@byu.edu or call me at (801) 489-7589.