Irwin T. Smith

            IRWIN T. SMITH, farmer, is a native of West Virginia, came into the world December 21, 1841, and is the third child of a family of twelve born to John G.J. and Isabel H. (Tarelton) Smith. Irwin T., Smith received the rudiments of a necessary education from the general schools of his neighborhood. While in Noble County, Ohio, he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, and had the glory of participating in the following engagements: Piedmont, Lynchburg, Cedar creek, Richmond, the charge on Fort Gregg, and the pursuit of Gen. Lee, and was discharged with honor in December, 1865.

    March 4, 1868, he was united in wedlock with Miss Alcensa, a daughter of A.C. and Elizabeth Lawrence, from which alliance descended a family of five children –Philip Sheridan, Hattie J., Doris, Myra and John L. Mr. Smith has been during his whole life a farmer, who came to this township (Indian Creek Township) in 1875, and purchased a well-improved, cultivated, productive farm, covering ninety acres. He is a highly respected citizen, a Republican in political faith, and, with his consort, an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

 Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F.A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884, page 656.