Jacob Wesley Smith (1896 - aft. 1910)

Born 1896 in Alabama

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Biography

Jacob Wesley Smith was born about 1896 in Alabama. He was the son of Jacob Smith and Josephine Ann Brooks Smith.

According to the 1900 Census, he was listed as a four year old, white male living in Marshall County, Alabama. Others in the household were his parents; his grandmother, Elizabeth Smith; and his siblings, James T. Smith and Mary Smith. His birthplace and the birthplaces of his parents were listed as Alabama.^[1]

On the 1910 Census, he was listed as a 14 year old, white male living in the household of his father and stepmother, Eliza Crawford Brookshire Smith. Also living in the household were his siblings and half-siblings: James T. Smith, Mary Smith, Jesse Smith, Ruby Smith, Lillie Smith, Jessie Brookshire, Milton Brookshire, and Lydia Brookshire. He worked as a laborer on the home farm, and he could read and write.^[2]

Sources

• 1900 United States Census; database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9D6-YL7), Jacob W Smith in household of Jacob Smith, Precincts 2-3, 15 Crossroads, Big Spring, Red Hill, Marshall, Alabama, United States; citing sheet 4A, family 68, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,030.

• 1910 United States Census; database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLK5-DZL), Jacob W Smith in household of Jake Smith, Waco, Haralson, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 102, sheet 8B, family 72, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,201.

1. ↑ 1900 United States Census; database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9D6-YL7), Jacob W Smith in household of Jacob Smith, Precincts 2-3, 15 Crossroads, Big Spring, Red Hill, Marshall, Alabama, United States; citing sheet 4A, family 68, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,030.
2. ↑ 1910 United States Census; database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLK5-DZL), Jacob W Smith in household of Jake Smith, Waco, Haralson, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 102, sheet 8B, family 72, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,201.

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