Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Allen SMITH, farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Wilmington; 100 acres, valued at $50 per acre owned by 
his sons Oscar and Silas. Silas Married Mary NIECE in March, 1878., Mr. SMITH, Sr., was born 
in Franklin Co., Vt., Oct. 24, 1809. Married Annie BELL in 1831, in Vermont; she was born in 
Franklin Co., Vt., and died there in 1833. Married for his second wife Annie RICE; she was 
born May 15, 1811; they emigrated to Illinois in 1857, and located in this neighborhood; had 
eleven children - all by second marriage, ten living - Elvira, Olive (deceased), Warner, 
Edgar D., Ednah R., Laura M., Joseph A., Ezra W., Oscar L., Silas C. and Emma R., all born 
in Franklin Co., VT. Warner enlisted in 1861 in Co. I, 100th IL V. I; Edgar D, in 1861 in 
Co. A, 100th IL V. I.; both served until the close of the war. Elvira is now Mrs. Philo 
DRAPER, of Minnesota; Ednah is now Mrs. Andrew BAIRD, of Iowa; Laura is Mrs. W. BASKERVILLE, 
of this county; Emma is Mrs. Alex NIECE, of this county.