Apparently, Nathaniel was a popular given name for Champion families.
I am searching for the parents of Emeline CHAMPION SMITH, born 1832 (near
Tuckahoe?) NJ.
Her death certificate lists parents as Nathaniel CHAMPION and Mary LAYTON.
I have found
a marriage in Cumberland County of a Nathaniel CHAMPION to Margaret LAYTON.
I do not
know if these are Emeline's parents. I have been unable to find any
Nathaniel CHAMPION in
the 1850 US Census, but I did find one or more Mary CHAMPION as head of
household. Due to
the absence of Emeline in any of these families (possibly due to her
marriage to Charles SMITH
in 1850), I have been unable to identify her family.
Also, I have information stating that one of Emeline's grandmothers was
Native American(Lenni-Lenape/Delaware). This document also says that in her
later years
(I estimate between 1911 and 1924), she returned to the New Jersey Pine
Barrens in the role of a
Healer and Midwife. She died in 1924 at the home of her daughter, Eva SMITH
GEIPEL, in New
Brunswick, Middlesex County, NJ.
Orville Smith