 BITUARIESFulton County, Ohio |
Smith A., VanValkenburg of Gorham, Fayette, Ohio was born in Onondaga county, N. Y., December 26, 1846 and was a son of Abraham and Nancy (Hale) VanValkenburg. Abraham was born in Kinderhook, N.Y., in 1820, and Nancy was born in 1822 in Otsego county, N. Y. She was a daughter of Gardner and Rhoda (Perry) Hale. Abraham and Nancy were married in 1843 and have had a family of six children: Hannah A., Smith A., Mary E., Abraham, Jr., Adrian and Will. They settled in Gorham township in 1847, where he purchased his homestead farm, in 1845, of eighty acres for which he paid $500. Smith A. was married in 1873 to Ortensia Salsbury, of De Kalb, Indiana. They have had two children, one of whom, Lulu, died at an early age. Ai is now living. Ortensia was a daughter of Daniel and Fannie Isabel Salsbury. Smith A. chose farming for his occupation and purchased his homestead farm of forty acres in 1870. (The above is a biography of Smith A. Van Valkenburg rather than an obituary. Smith died January 2, 1928.)
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