Diary of Thomas Smith Additional Resources

This site and each page takes a while to load so please be patient and seems a bit tricky to operate. Historical Histories of Harrison County, Ohio, lists Thomas' family on pages 571 and 572 (enter 571 in the search box). BYU Family History Archives - John Smith Family - Pages 571-572 - Historical Histories of Harrison County, Ohio

Selected Pages from Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio 1891 with biographies of Theodore Smith, Doc McGavran and his father William McGavran.

Fierbaugh Dairy Web site. This wonderful site includes a photograph of Thomas and Mary possibly taken in 1874 (see diary entry Sept. 10, 1874). The site also features the original Fierbaugh land deed signed by John Quincy Adams. Be patient while the photos load. See photos of Sarah & Michael and Thomas' grandchildren: http://www.fierbaughdairy.com

Harrison County Town Histories - Connotton - Thomas Smith: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohharris/towns.html

Historic Map Works - Harrison County 1875 - North Township by Caldwell - Thomas' Farm is located west of Masterville: http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/20453/North/Harrison+County+1875+Caldwell/Ohio/

Google Map of Thomas' Farm today. The farm is located immediately west of Conotton which used to be called Masterville.

Conotton Cemetery Photos by Linda Gernert Houyouse & Janet Hull Dutcher - M.B. Fierbaugh's Grave Photo, Civil War soldier. Thomas' son-in-law. Married to Sarah Smith.: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutchcorners/conotton.html

Conotton Cemetery Photos by Allen V. Sparrow - M.B. Fierbaugh & Sarah Grave Photos and many others: http://picasaweb.google.com/ohharris02/ConnottonCem?authkey=1EuiLYhkwmQ

Harrison County Ohio Deersville Cemetery (Franklin Township) Thomas' sister Sarah Simonton is here: http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH2,21381

Conotton Creek Trail - Harrison County Ohio's Award Winning Trail of Covered Bridges: http://www.crossroadsrcd.org/hctrail/

Thomas Smith Fierbaugh (Thomas' Grandson) Page 33 The Bower Family History: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/o/w/Larry-D-Bower-New-Philadelphia/PDFBOOK1.pdf

Harrison County Ohio Genealogical Society. Wonderful site maintained by Allen V. Sparrow. Many great links: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohharris/

Sam Adams Grave Harrison County Ohio, Ridge Graveyard: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/harrison/cemeteries/archer/ridge.txt

Harrison County History by Samuel McGavran 1894 - Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook of Ohio History. (Could this be the Doc MGavern who was called to Caraline's bedside before she died from 'bleeding from the lungs'.)

Scio Grandview Cemetery Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/ohharris02/ScioCemetery?authkey=DKTatnwE7gU

Obituary of Rev. Michael Gundy Aug 29, 1906 written by MB Fierbaugh, Chrisitan Conservator: http://www.huntington.edu/ubhc/publications/conservator/1906/08/cc19060829obits.htm

Ohio Historical Society - Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook of Ohio History: http://www.ohiomemory.org/index.html

Tombstone Transcription Project - Harrison County, Ohio: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/ohio/harrison.htm

Gallery of Harrison County: http://www.geocities.com/cadizohio/

Heritage Pursuit - Newspapers of Harrison County. This tells the history of the Cadiz Republican where Thomas worked as a young man: http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Harrison/Harrison1921ChXIIP279.htm

Heritage Pursuit - History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - published in 1921: http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Harrison/Harrison1921Index.htm

Heritage Pursuit - Great Ohio History site maintained by Allen Potts: http://www.heritagepursuit.com/index.html

Revolutionary War Soldiers buried in Harrison County, Ohio: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohharris/revsoldiers.html

Harrison County - Town Histories: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohharris/towns.html

Harrison County, Ohio Genealogy Forum: http://genforum.genealogy.com/oh/harrison/

Ohio History - Published in 1908 by the Ohio Historical Society. The entire book is available online in Google Books: Ohio History by the Ohio Historical Society, Published in 1908

Historical Collections of Harrison County, Ohio Page 493 Daniel Fierbaugh's son Michael B. married Thomas' daughter Sarah E. Smith who was b. 1852, d. Feb 10, 1845.

Historical Maps of Ohio from the University of Alabama - Great site!: http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/us_states/ohio/index.html

Abraham Lincoln Blog - Article: Ohio Village Had Major Ties to Lincoln (Cadiz). Also, articles about the Underground Railroad: The Abraham Lincoln Blog

United Brethren Historical Center - Genealogical Information: http://www.huntington.edu/ubhc/genealogy.htm

Amish-Heartland - Towns and Places, History, Photos: http://www.amish-heartland.com/amish/section/6812

Harrison County, Ohio - Google Search

Harrison, Ohio 1850 Federal Census: http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/oh/harrison/1850/index.txt

New York Times Archives - June 4, 1906 - 2000 Ohio Troops Called Out - Mine Guards Are Shot

1850 Mortality Schedule Jefferson, County, Ohio - by James L. Murphy http://www.garlock-elliott.org/archive/1850mort.html

Family of Emery Theodore Garlock & Doris Irene Elliott -Includes Jefferson County, Ohio: http://www.garlock-elliott.org/index.html

Dellroy, Ohio History. Great site with many old photos: http://www.dellroyhistory.com/

Ancestor Obituaries of Coshocton, Ohio: http://www.coshoctongenealogy.org/obits.htm

Carroll County, Ohio Obituaries by Richard Culler: http://www.albaugh.info/carroll_obits.htm

Annual Report of the Secretary of State - Go to Page 159 for a Reference to M.B. Fierbaugh, Harrison County, Ohio. Published 1913: http://books.google.com/books?id=bmqdH3RyCm4C

Appalachian Ohio and the Civil War 1862-1867 by Susan G. Hall. http://books.google.com/books?id=GBi7b6HzuH4C

Appalachian Ohio History: http://www.firstohio.com/main/histories.aspx?CoID=30

Brief Biographical Sketches: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sunnyann/briefbios.html

Birth Place of General George Custer: http://www.familyoldphotos.com/oh2/2b/birthplace_of_general_george_cus.htm

Bowerston, Ohio Public Library: http://www.bowerstonlibrary.org/Bow_history/history_1883_1983.htm

Ohio Resources: http://www.rootsweb.com/~bwo/ohio.html

Carroll County, Ohio Cemeteries: http://ohio.hometownlocator.com/features/cultural,class,Cemetery,scfips,39019.cfm

Historical Collections of Ohio by Henry Howe Vol. I 1888: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~henryhowesbook/index.html

Christian Conservator Obituary Name Index: http://www.huntington.edu/ubhc/publications/conservator/ccobitindex.htm

Conotton Cemetery, Harrison County: http://ohio.hometownlocator.com/maps/feature-map,ftc,2,fid,1699589,n,Conotton Cemetery.cfm

Find A Grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=40377

Conotton Cemetery - M.B. Fierbaugh's Grave Photo: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutchcorners/conotton.html

Coshocton, Ohio Biographical Sketches: http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Coshocton/cofile7.htm

Cyndi's List Ohio: http://www.cyndislist.com/oh.htm

Craig's Daguerreian Registry: http://www.daguerreotype.com/

Cannonsburgh - Cannonsburg, Ohio, Monroe Township, Carroll Conty: http://www.dellroyhistory.com/page30.html

Dellroy History - Fred Smith. Could this be Thomas' Grandson?: http://www.dellroyhistory.com/page11.html

Public Health Journal- Excessive Mortality from Influenza - Pneumonia Among Bituminous Coal Miners of Ohio in 1918: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1362822

Family Search- B.W. Price, Leesburgh, Carroll County, Ohio: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp

Library of Congress: First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml//fawhome.html

Library of Congress: The Journal of a Tour into the Territory Northwest of the Alleghany Mountains 1803

Richard Clough Anderson Papers (1784-1904) Historical Survey Records: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ihx/rcanderson.htm

Ohio Underground Railroad Association: http://www.ohioundergroundrailroad.org/

Historical Maps of Ohio for sale: http://www.ushistoricalarchive.com/statemaps/oh/index.html

Greenmont Union Cemetery, Harrison County, Ohio: http://www.interment.net/data/us/oh/harrison/greenmont/

Ohio History Resources List: http://www.marshall.edu/speccoll/history guide/ohio.html

Hanover Cemetery, Hanover, Ohio: http://www.graveaddiction.com/mmhano.html

Historical Biographies of Harrison County, Ohio: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohharris/biographies.htm

The African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920 -Temperance Talk by Rev. Peterson: http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cfm?ID=2397

Harrison County Ohio Beech Spring Graveyard: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/harrison/cemeteries/beechsp.txt

Harrison County Dickerson Graveyard (Cadiz Township): http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/harrison/cemeteries/cadiz/dickerson.txt

Harrison County Ohio - The Old Graveyard at Cadiz: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/th/read/OH-FOOTSTEPS/2005-11/1131314971

Harrison County Ohio Harrisville Methodist Episcopal Graveyard (Short Creek Township):http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/harrison/cemeteries/franklin/deersville.txt

Harrison County Ohio Archives Will of Samuel Carrothers, Sr. 1831: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/harrison/wills/carrothe18gwl.txt

Harrison County Cemetery Locations: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohharris/cemlocations.htm

Jefferson County Ohio Cemeteries : http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohjeffer/

Crawford County Ohio History: http://ohiobios.ancestralsites.com/bios/crawford/castledo.txt

USGenweb Archives Search: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ns

Carroll County Ohio Account Book of Gabriel Wagner, Blacksmith 1866-1878: http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/oh/oh-footsteps/1999/apr/v99-216.txt

Carroll County Ohio Bureau of Land Management Database Land Purchasers pre-Revolutionary to 1908:http://www.freesurnamesearch.com/search/oh.html

Maternal Line of Elizabeth (Niesz) Titus born 27 August 1820 Stark County, Ohio, by Connie Lenzen: http://www.bcgcertification.org/skillbuilders/titusnarrlineage.pdf

Gutenberg eBook Project- Twentieth Century Negro Literature: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18772/18772-h/18772-h.htm

The Missionary Monthly 1905 Reference to MB Fierbaugh's second wife: http://www.huntington.edu/ubhc/publications/missionary/1905/190503.pdf

Short History of Leesville, Ohio by J. Lester Seel: http://www.leesburgohio.org/pdf/HistoryofLeesburg.pdf

Wilbur H. Siebert Extensive Collection (1840-1954) History of the Underground Railroad microfilm index (this site takes a while to load): http://www.ohiohistory.org/undergroundrr/siebert.pdf

Map showing location of Ohio Covered Bridges: http://www.ohioparks.net/images/covered_bridge_ohio_map.gif

Jefferson County Ohio Cemeteries: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohjeffer/CEM/cemetery.html

John Earl Borland (1924-1986) Leesville, Ohio: http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/John_Earl_Borland_I_(1924-1986)

Leesville Ohio Cemetery: http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=143991

Bowerston Public Library (great old photos): http://www.bowerstonlibrary.org/

Harrison County Ohio Genealogy Resources: http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/OH/Harrison/

List of Registered Historic Places in Ohio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Registered_Historic_Places_in_Ohio

Harrison County Longview Cemetery, Bowerston: http://www.interment.net/data/us/oh/harrison/longview/index.htm

Ohio Cemeteries near Smithdale

Post Offices near Old Cadiz Cemetery, Ohio

Book on Maps and Plans for Leesville Dam, near Leesville, Ohio: http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/bro/003194.shtml

National Register of Historic Places - Ohio: http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/oh/state.html

Ohio Attorneys Graft's Legal Directory 1808-09: http://geneasearch.com/graft/oh.htm

Ohio Places: http://www.geocities.com/ohioplaces/

Genealogy.com: http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/VG/vcem_search.html

Ohio Genealogical Society Online Databases: http://www.ogs.org/research/dblist.php

Ohio History Central: http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/subcategory.php?c=H&s=IMAGE

Ohio History Central - Ohio Resources Links: http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/links.php

The African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920 Photograph Collection: http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/photo/miscellaneous.cfm

Ohio Pix Picturing Ohio's History: http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/ohiopix/Image.cfm?ID=6101

Harrison County Ohio Pix

Old Maps of Harrison County Ohio: http://www.oldmapsetc.com/old-maps-ohio-towns.html#Harrison

Online Ohio Death Records & Indexes: http://www.deathindexes.com/ohio/

Ohio Public Library Information Network - Ohio Museums, Historic sites and Villages: http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/page.php?Id=63-24-381-1550&msg=

Photography of George Elmer: http://www.frontierfamilies.net/family/Panhandle/photo_index.htm

Cadiz, Ohio 1872 Panhandle Railroad Engine #19: http://www.frontierfamilies.net/Family/Panhandle/ph10.htm

Panhandle Railroad Wreck Photo January 20, 1903: http://www.frontierfamilies.net/family/Panhandle/Wreck.htm

Panhandle Railroad Trains & Engines: http://www.frontierfamilies.net/family/Panhandle/trains.htm

Carroll County Ohio Orange Township Swinehart Cemetery: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohcarcgs/swinehart_files/swinehart.html

Swinehart Cemetery, Orange Township, Carroll County, Ohio, Interment.net: http://www.interment.net/data/us/oh/carroll/swinehart/index.htm

Encyclopaedia of Pleading and Practice William Crim Ohio Assignee

First American West - The Ohio River Valley 1750-1820: http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1496

Carroll County Ohio Crim Family: http://genforum.genealogy.com/crim/messages/532.html

Roby, Robey Geneology: http://www.geocities.com/heartland/prairie/1318/robey.html

Carroll County Ohio, Settlers prior to 1840: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/OHCARROL/2002-07/1025659313

Quaker Roots: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/QUAKER-ROOTS/2003-05/1054193993

Round Barn Freeport Township, Harrison County Ohio: http://www.dalejtravis.com/barn/ohio/htm/oh03404.htm

Carroll County Ohio Cornith Presbyterian Cemetery Directory: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/carrol/cemeteries/corinth/corinth-directory.txt

PastHound - Smithfield, Ohio: http://www.pasthound.com/topics/Smithfield,-Ohio

Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio, Mishler Weaving Mill: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohschs/mill.html

Smithville, Green Township, Wayne County, Ohio Community Historical Society Resources: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohschs/archivesindex.html

Samuel Strieby Genealogy & History: http://www.striebygenealogy.com/03026.htm

Smith Underground Railroad Station, Cutler, Washington County, Ohio: http://www.lwfaah.net/oh/hb_smith.htm

Tippecanoe, Ohio Google Map

Wilson S. Fisher 1830-1907 Tunnel Hill Cemetery: http://www.frontierfamilies.net/family/Panhandle/Fisher/WilsonSFisherG4.htm

Tuscarawas County, Ohio History: http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Tuscarawas/TuscarawasChapIX.htm

Tuscarawas County, Mill Township, Ohio History: http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Tuscarawas/TuscarawasBMill.htm

Tuscarawas County, Warren Township, Ohio History:http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Tuscarawas/TuscarawasBWarren.htm

Tuscarawas County, Freeport Township, Ohio History: http://members.aol.com/ragruwell/freephst.html

Tuscarawas County, Freeport Township, Ohio History: http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Tuscarawas/TuscarawasBMill.htm

The Christian Conservator Digitization Project: http://www.huntington.edu/ubhc/publications/conservator/conservator.htm

Harrison County Ohio USGenWeb Archives Project: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/oh/harrison.htm

The Pillars of Harrison County by Joseph T. Harrison

Google Books: W.W. Reilly & Co.'s Ohio State Business Directory 1834

Google Books: Wiggins & Weaver's Ohio River Directory 1871-1872

Historic Pittsburgh -wonderful site: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/

William Rainsberger, Dell Roy History: http://www.dellroyhistory.com/page40.html

Wood County Ohio History: http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Wood/WoodChapXXXVIII.htm

Vice President Henry Wilson 1873-1875: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wilson

President Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant

Carroll County News Archive Google Search

Ohio River Valley Ecosystem U.S. Fish & Game: http://www.fws.gov/orve/

Questia Online Library of Books and Journals. Great way to discover research resources. You can review the items for free or subscribe for ten dollars a month to read them in their entirety online. Another tip is once you identify the book you need, check Amazon.com where you can usually purchase it used for a few dollars used and have it delivered to your doorstep or try your local library. If they don't have the book, ask if they can get it for you through inter-library loan. Google Book Search is another great way to preview books.

Wennawoods Publishing Company - Books relating to the17th and 18th Century Journey Across the Eastern Frontier: http://keystoneweb.com/users/wennawoods-cgi/listpage.cgi?store=books

NationMaster Encyclopedia-Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad History: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Pittsburgh,-Cincinnati,-Chicago-and-St.-Louis-Railroad

Wikipedia Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh,_Cincinnati,_Chicago_and_St._Louis_Railroad

Telegraph History: http://www.telegraph-history.org/

Library of Congress National Atlases 1790-1920: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/census2.html

University of Texas Libraries Historical Map Collection: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html#US

National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html

Ancestors of Rhea Alice Thornton: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/o/r/Kristi-Fortney/PDFGENE1.pdf

Beware in searching this document as every other page is blocked out. Go to the BYU Family History Archive Listed above to access the complete document: Thomas and Mary Smith under Daniel Fierbaugh listing Historical Collections of Harrison County, Ohio

History of the Barr Family, Published 1901 Google Book Search

History of the Lancaster Family, Published 1902, Lists Reverend William McCarty Google Book Search

Zoarville Station Bridge at Camp Tuscazoar: http://www.tuscazoar.org/ZSB.htm

Arbaugh-Some Ancestors & Descendants: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sunnyann/arbaugh.html

Moore & Pilcher - A Family History: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sunnyann/index1.html

Legend of Conotton Creek - 1894

Minard.com - Interesting Genealogy site honoring Ohio Pioneers: http://www.minerd.com/ohiobicentennial.htm

Penny Postcards from Ohio: http://usgwarchives.org/oh/ppcs-oh.html

Serpent Mound, Ohio: http://www.sacred-destinations.com/usa/serpent-mound.htm

American Picture Links-Historical portraits of presidential candidates: http://americanpicturelinks.com/Candidates.htm

Thunder in the Heartland - A Chronicle of Outstanding Weather Events in Ohio: Thomas and Jeanne Schmidlin, native Ohioans, have brought together data from government records, scientific studies, memoirs, diaries, and newspapers in the first comprehensive book on Ohio weather.

An Historical Guide to Ancient and Modern Dublin - Bride Street Church in Dublin Book by George Newenham Wright. Published 1821. Could this be the Bride Street Church in Dublin mentioned in Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio 1891 as being the church were Thomas and Mary were married in 1838.

The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland - Bride Street Church in Dublin Book by Nancy Edwards. Published 2007. Could this be the Bride Street Church in Dublin mentioned in Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio 1891 as being the church were Thomas and Mary were married in 1838.

History of the Knights of Pythias. Theadore Smith was a member of this organization: http://www.pythias.org/pythstory/

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