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I am researching the Smith family of Driftwood/Gibson Township Pennsylvania as well and
found this info. regarding one of the grandson's of Samuel Smith.
I'm curious.....have you ever found how to obtain obits, probate records, land
documents, etc for that area?
ISAAC SMITH, farmer, P.O. Driftwood, was born in what is now Gibson township, Cameron Co.,
Penn., February 15, 1840, and is a son of Benjamin and Ann E. (Mix) Smith. His paternal
grandfather was Samuel Smith, a pioneer of Gibson township, on whose porch the two
burglars, Conley and Lewis, were shot in an early day. The children of Samuel Smith were
Solomon, Jacob, Isaac, Benjamin and Jordan. Of these, Benjamin, father of Isaac, was a
farmer and lumberman by occupation, and was run over and killed by the cars on the
Allegheny Valley Railroad. His children were Isaac, Julia A., Hezekiah NI., Kate (Mrs.
Powell Barr), Henry, Jordan and Ellen (Mrs. John McMullen). The maternal parents of Isaac
were James and Catherine (Overturf) Mix, pioneers of Gibson township. Isaac Smith was
reared in Gibson township, where he has always resided, and, since 1868, has occupied his
present farm, which he cleared and improved. He married Roena, daughter of James Kyle, of
Bingham, Potter Co., Penn!
., and they have six children: Benjamin, Ann E. (Mrs. Gary Mason), Adelbert J., Alma,
Dorothy and Alfred. Mr. Smith was in the Civil war, serving thirteen months in Company G,
Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers; politically he is a Republican.
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