NANCY CHARLOTTE SMITH'S family was prominent in Delaware county Ohio from 1840 (census) through the 1850's (Quite a bit of information is also known for the Smith family). 

NEHEMIAH was born in Ohio, and his father was born in Scotland (according to Nehemiah's California death record), and his father may have been in Hagerstown, Maryland, and possibly from Maine before that (sea port town).  Nehemiah's son George told his grandchildren the family came from Virginia!. The earliest information found for Nehemiah is when he married his first wife, Lucy M. Hicks daughter of Nathaniel Hamilton Hicks and Margaret Whitbeck, in what was then Northern Delaware County, Ohio, at Westfield  (married by: A. Patee "at Westfield") which later became part of Morrow County. By this marriage, two children were born:

A.....SAMANTHA J. TAYLOR born in 1846, Ohio.(Lived at Colby, Wisconsin-in 1865 maybe earlier).

B.....GEORGE WASHINGTON TAYLOR, born on the fourth of February 1848 in Sandsuky (death certificate) Ohio.

The family is listed on the 1850 morrow county, Ohio Census. Lucy died about 1851 (probably in childbirth).  Nehemiah married his second wife, Betsey Ann Miller, in the town of Westfield in Morrow County. She was born in Windsor, in Broome County, New York. Betsey was previously married August 5, 1838, to Joshua Travis and had five children by that marriage: Henry Hamlet, born 1839, and Jane Ann, born 1849 were living with Nehemiah and Betsey on the 1855 and 1860 censuses in Sauk County, Wisconsin.

In 1880, Henry (Betsey's son) was living in Marathon County in Mosinee, Wisconsin as a laborer and was married to V.A. Getchal, 33 years old. She was born in Maine, her father was born in Maine, and her mother was born in New Hampshire. Henry's wife had a brother, Frank, born in 1853 in Wisconsin. Hamlet's children are: Manniss, Elnaxa, Gavin Bert, Arthur, Willie, and Leon. Hamlet was living in Hancock, Wisconsin in 1902 and was the only living child from Betsey's previous marriage at that time. Henry for awhile-used the name "Henry Taylor" while in the U.S. Navy in the early 1860's.  One of our ancestors is reported to have been in one of the wars as a water boy. This may have been Nehemiah's father, in the war of 1812, with the British..

Nehemiah left Morrow County, Ohio, and came to Marston, in Washington Township (then Northern Sauk County), Sauk County, Wisconsin, about April of 1853. His family traveled by wagon, with the Felt E. Wheeler and sons, Nelson, Almon, henry and John and other families. One of the wheeler families continued on West to California, while Nehemiah and Felt E Wheeler and his other children traveled into Sauk county Wisconsin. In 1860, Nehemiah lived in Washington Township in Sandusky (Hillpoint). The post office was in "Humbolt," where they lived at least until 1863.

Nehemiah came to Clark county in the fall of 1865 as stated by him in his letter, telling about his step son's health (to pension department). Nehemiah's family lived near Loyal in 1869, in Loyal Township Clark County Wisconsin, where Nehemiah was farming. The value of his personal estate was 400.00 and his total estate was worth 600.00. In 1878, Nehemiah homesteaded 160 acres of land in Township 26, section 22, just a little east and south of Loyal. On the 1850 Morrow County census, Betsey is listed with John (Festien ) and Elizabeth (probably Betsey's mother) and Betsey's daughter, Jane Ann. She probably lived at home with her mother after her first husband, Joshua Travis, died, but before she married Nehemiah.

In 1874, Nehemiah's wife "Betsey" left him and moved to Colby, Wisconsin, where she is described as a pioneer settler. In 1880, Betsey and her daughter, Nancy, were in Colby along with Betsey's Grandson, Clarence Andrews, first son of Nehemiah and Betsey's first daughter, Henrietta, who was then nine years old. Betsey took in washing to support herself and lived on Main Street. She died on August 27, 1902, and is buried in Colby, Wisconsin.

By 1880, Nehemiah lived in Jackson County, near Alma Center, with his daughter, Samantha, his son George, George's wife Nancy, and their daughter, Mary. They lived there until about 1894 and were near Humbird, Wisconsin in Clark County in 1895. In 1900, Nehemiah was living with Henry Young, son of Chauncy Young. Nehemiah's son George hated Nehemiah (According to the family) and the family states that he was a scoundrel.

Some of Nehemiah's siblings may be Martha, Catherine and William. NEHEMIAH and BETSEY'S CHILDREN are as follows: (2nd marriage)
A. Henrietta Born: -- --- 1853
B. Henry L. Born: 14 May 1855
C. James B. Born: Jul/Aug 1858
D. Malcom David Born: -- May 1860
E. Nancy Charlotte Born: 16 Jan 1863.

SOURCE: (Richard Taylor/Family Records)