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

Mrs. Jacob SMITH, farmer and fruit grower; P. O. Lockport. Mrs. SMITH was born in Ripley, 
N. Y., Feb. 25, 1816; she is the daughter of Martin and Margaret (SACIA) SMITH. She was 
married first to Almon TAYLOR, a native of Chenango, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1832. In the fall of 
1835, she came with her husband to Illinois, and settled in Lockport Twp., Will Co., on 
the farm just north of that now owned by Patrick FITZPATRICK; in 1850, Mr. TAYLOR went to 
California and engaged in mining; while there, he met with a severe accident, from the 
effects of which he died Oct. 31, 1850. Mrs. TAYLOR was married a second time, March 26, 
1852, to Jacob SMITH, a native of Tennessee; from first wedlock, four children were born 
- Katie, Marcus M., Martin S., Horace A.; of these, Marcus and Martin are dead; from second 
wedlock, she has two children - George B. and Jennie L. Owns fifty acres in Lockport Twp., 
forty of which is set in fruit. Mrs. SMITH has seen much of pioneer life in the West, and 
is one of the few that is left who settled here in those early days.