Library-Littleton-Smith
I recently got back from my local library and started researching in the reference section.What a wealth of information to be found there!!!!!! Please everyone go to your local library and check out the reference section.I would love to hear from all people in Virginia researching the Littletons to what they can dig up at thier local libraries.The missing key could be locked up in a book.
The following was found in a ref book on the Centennial Biographical History of Ohio from the Westerville Ohio library.
Lemuel Smith-A representative of one of the pioneer families of Ohio, Lemuel Smith is now a well-to do and enterprising agriculturist of Pleasant township, Franklin County.His paternal grandfather, Lemuel Smith, Sr. was born in the Green Isle of ERin, whence he emigrated to the new world and founded the family in Maryland.The grandfather made farming his life work and died in dorchester county Maryland.It was in that county that Handy Smith, the father of our subject, was born in the year 1808.He recieved only a limited education and found plenty of work to do upon the home farm.After arriving at years of maturity he married Sarah Littleton, who was born in Dorchester county, Maryland, in 1810, a daughter of Edmund Littleton,In 1839, with his wife and family, Handy Smith came by team to Ohio, being weeks upon the road.He located in Monroe township, Pickaway county, where, in the midst of the forest, he secured a tract of land.Subsequently he purchased fifty acres of wild land in that township, errecting a hewed-log cabin of one room 16 by 16 feet, and with characteristic energy began cultivation of his farm.He performed the ardious task of clearing and breaking land and in the course of time his labors were rewarded with abundant harvests, and as the years passed he added to his possestions until he owned two hundred and twenty five acresin Pleasant township.His death occured on the latter farm in JUne 1884.His first wife died in Monroe township pickaway county, in 1850, and he afterward married Rebecca Jane Tainer, who died in 1882.The parent of our subject held membership in the Methodist Espiscopal Church and in his political affiliations the father was first a Whig and afterward a republican....................
The article goes on to talk about his children and so forth.