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Jennings Bryan SMITH

Jennings Bryan SMITH

Male 1896 - 1970  (73 years)


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  • Name Jennings Bryan SMITH
    Birth 27 Sep 1896  Freed, Calhoun Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    • Birth date given in SSDI as Sep 26 1896, but all other records show it as Sep 27 1896.
    Gender Male
    Residence Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Death 18 Sep 1970  [4, 5] 
    Person ID I6532  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2015

    Father Jeptha Henry SMITH,   b. 30 Jan 1855, Fauquier Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Apr 1940, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
    Mother Matilda Jane KNIGHT,   b. 18 Apr 1858   d. 26 Apr 1933, Nutter Fort, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F2301  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Dorothy Virginia CRITCHFIELD,   b. 5 Aug 1900, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Apr 1978, Fairfax, VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)  [6]
    Marriage 27 Sep 1919  Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Children 
    >1. Billy June SMITH
    Family ID F2294  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S1875] National Archives and Records Administration, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, (Ancestry.com online database).

    2. [S2508] National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, (Ancestry.com online database).

    3. [S1654] Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV, MR p. 308.

    4. [S15] Social Security Death Index.

    5. [S692] Obituary of wife.

    6. [S103] Walter Ray "Shiner" Husk (1900-1993).

    7. [S1654] Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV, MR p. 308.
      Identified as Jennings Bryan Smith, 23, b. Calhoun Co, son of Jeptha H. Smith & Matilda; and Dorothy Virginia Crichfield, 19, b. Doddridge Co, dau of Albert Crichfield & Cornelia. Married Sep 27 1919. "Crichfield" is a spelling frequently found for the more common "Critchfield," but the basis for the bride's father being identified as Albert is not known. Provider of the information in the marriage record was only the groom.