Burial- Old Kennet Meeting House Cemetery
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Kirtland, OH: Older children of Silas remained iin St. Lawrence Co., after their father's conversion to Mormonism and were obviously consulted in compiling the detailed genealogies ofthis book. Compare the quotation in this chapter refereced at the end of note 206. Which quotes a short LDS Archives document titled "Items pertaining to the biography of John SMITH, " and indicating that Asael contineud the cooper's trade in Tunbridge. Concerning the circumstances of Asaels in Vermont during 1805-6. it says: "Silas married Ruth Stevens with the understanding that they were to live together with his father in the cooper's shop.{ As discussed in the text, this document is dated 1854, the year of John Smith's death, and collects information understood to be from John or his immediate family.
Youngest son of Silas Smith. Surveyed his father's life in the beginning of his journal, recording the family traditioon of sevice in the War of 1812, and summerizing his father's ordination to the office of Elder (March 3, 1836, Kirtland, Ohio) and of high Priest (Feb 10, 1838, Kirtlan, Ohio_ based on cerrificates. He died after hardships of the Missouri expulsion, on Sept 13, 1839. For the events mentioned in Silas's life, see Oliver R. Smith, ed., The Journal of Jesse Nathaniel Smith (Provo, UT: Jesse N. Smith Fmaily Association, 1970), 1-7.