Mary Celicia Thompson Smith

b. July 6, 1847 (Belmont Co., OH) - d. Feb. 20, 1927 (OH)

Malta Cemtery (Morgan Co., OH)

Email from W Smith (author of a family history on this Smith family)

Manly married Mary C. Thompson.  He was 16 years old when he married her and she was 23 years old. 

Manly and Mary had 11 children and they all survived.  Bert was next to the youngest.  Two of their older children were not Manly’s children. I included a court case concerning Mary and the first child...

Morgan County, Ohio Record Book T, pp113-115: Mary C. Thompson an unmarried woman and a resident of the County of Morgan, Ohio, this day complained under oath that she delivered a bastard child and Eli W. Brown is the father.

Morgan County Ohio Infirmary Records: Oct 1866

The State of Ohio / Morgan County, Manchester Township To the board of directors of the Infirmary in said county these are therefore to command you to receive into your Infirmary Mary Thompson a Pauper from Manchester Twonship in said County. She is a resident of said township, her age is 19 years. She was Born in Belmount County, Ohio. Came to Morgan County January AD 1865 and remained here since and she was Delivered of a Child some two years ago and is now pregnant with child. Previous to that misfortune her Characture was Good to the Best of our knowledge. Expenses and Transportation for Removing Said Pauper Six Dollars.

Given under our hands this 6th Day of October AD 1866.

Dennis Allen, John M. Seares - Trustees.

Morgan County Herald Feb. 27, 1927:
Mary Smith's funeral was held at the home of her son Chester Smith in Malta, Ohio on Feb. 22.

Children:

• Unknown (Child of Mary C Thompson and Eli W Brown)
  b. abt. 1864 - d. ?
  Mary had a child, and was pregnet with a 2nd child when she was received into the Morgan County Ohio Infirmary in 1866. / Morgan County, Ohio Record Book T, pp113-115: Mary C. Thompson an unmarried woman and a resident of the County of Morgan, Ohio, this day complained under oath that she delivered a bastard child and Eli W. Brown is the father.
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• Unknown
  b. 1866 - d. ?
  Mary had a child, and was pregnet with a 2nd child when she was received into the Morgan County Ohio Infirmary in 1866. / Morgan County Ohio Infirmary Records: Oct 1866: Mary Thompson a Pauper from Manchester Twonship...Came to Morgan County January AD 1865 and remained here since and she was Delivered of a Child some two years ago and is now pregnant with child.

Childern of Mary C Thompson and Manly Smith
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• Lillie (Smith) Stanley-White
  b. March 1, 1868 (OH) - d.March 13, 1914 (Muskingum Co., OH)
  Brush Creek Cemetery (Muskingum Co., Ohio)
  Married Amos Stanley Jr. (May 11, 1891) / Married Benjamin F. White after Amos's death / Children: Amos C. Stanley (b. 1891 OH). / Lillie died as a result of burns that she received in a fire.
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• Margaret (Smith) Gillespie
  b. abt 1871 (OH) - d. 1952
  Married Ernest J. Gillespie (b. abt 1871) in 1899.
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• Agnes Arminta (Smith) Bell
  b. 1872 (OH) - d. 1962
  Married Charles Bell / Children: Chatherine M. Bell and a son who died young.
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• John Smith
  b. abt 1875 (OH) - d.
  Married Bertha Stroub / had one son who drowned in the Muskingum River when he was young.
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• Alice (Smith) Dobbins
  b. abt 1888 (OH) - d. ?
  Married Lewis Dobbins (Coal Miner) / Children: Raymond, Leota, Norman, Manly and Gertrude.
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• Mary (Smith) Reeves
  b. 1879 (OH) - d. 1967
  Married William A. Reeves / Child: Georgia L. Reeves
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• Chester Arthur Smith
  b. July 22, 1879 (Morgan Co., OH) - d. 1955 (OH)
  Malta Cemetery (Morgan Co., Ohio)
  Married Cora Jones (b. 1879 - d. 1967) in 1900 / Children: Lena, Leonard, Ernestine, Harold and an infant. / Chester and Cora are buried at the Malta Cemetery (Morgan Co., Ohio)
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• Eva E. (Smith) Dobbins-Trout-Lindimore
  b. 1882 (OH) - d. 1931
  Eva's first husband Hendricks Dobbins was killed in a mining accident / she married Samuel Trout in 1904 / She married Chester Lindimore after Samuels death in 1914. Children: Chester Dobbins, Russel Dobbins, Harold Lindimore, Helen Lindimore.
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• Blanche (Smith) Seim
  b. abt 1887 (OH) - d. 1962 (WV)
  Married John Samuel Seim b. 1887 (OH) / Child: Robert Seim.
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• Bert M. Smith
  b.1889 (OH) - d. 1964
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• Anna (Smith) Barcus
  b. abt 1891 (OH) - d. 1945
  Morgan County Democrat April 18, 1902 - Anna Smith, a little daughter of Manly Smith, is quite sick with lung fever, the result of whooping caugh. / Married Arthur Barcus in 1920.