Smith Stones

Tippecanoe Township in section 5. Being regraded and stones to be reset. (Pictures to come later.)

In the 1850 census we find living in Tippecanoe Township and on the land where the Smith stones are found the Thomas Smith family lived. His wife is Margaret and they have eight children with them. Also Thomas Sr. and his wife Jane and daughter Eliza J are listed.

Stones that have been located are:

Jane Smith, who died 27 June 1851, Aged 73 years 2 months and 20 days

Margaret Smith, who died 11 June 1851, aged 38 years 9 months and 13 days.

also an infant who died in 1851. It is believed that all three died in the cholera epidemic.

Some believe that they are related somehow to John Sample who gave the land for the Sample/Cholera Hill Cemetery a short distance north.

Some have called these the Mormon stones but I do not believe that they are and that the Mormon stones are elsewhere and possibly lost.