William Smiley, Jr. and Nancy Morton

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Husband William Smiley, Jr. ¹

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           Born: 1835 - Wayne Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 1
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         Father: William Smiley, Sr. (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Ellen Gallagher (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1863 4

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Wife Nancy Morton ⁴

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         Father: James B. Morton (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Jane N. [Unk] (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M William Smiley ⁴

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2 M Robert Smiley ⁴

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3 F Ona Smiley ⁴

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         Spouse: T. J. Bracken (      -      ) 4

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4 F Ella J. Smiley ⁵

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            AKA: Ellen Smiley 4
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         Spouse: George B. Nye (1863-      ) 6

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5 F Lizzie Smiley ⁴

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6 M Albert Smiley ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - William Smiley, Jr.

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He was reared on his father's farm and attended the public schools of that district. He learned the trade of a blacksmith in his youthful days and worked at it until he joined the army. He enlisted in August, 1861, in Company C, 100th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered in at Pittsburgh. The regiment went to Washington, D. C., thence to near Beaufort, South Carolina, and from there to Charleston. Returning to Beaufort, it embarked for Fredericksburg, and from the latter place went to Bull Run, where it participated in the second battle of that name. The next battles in which Mr. Smiley participated were South Mountain and Antietam, after which the regiment returned to Fredericksburg, and from that point was sent to Kentucky. This regiment continued westward to Vicksburg, where its members participated in the siege of that city, then returned to Lexington, Kentucky, thence to Knoxville, Tennessee. At the latter place Sergeant Smiley's term of enlistment expired, and he re-enlisted at Blaine Cross Roads for the remainder of the war. He went home on a thirty-days furlough, rejoining his regiment at Pittsburgh. From there they went to Washington and joined the command of General Grant, under whom they served during the remainder of the war, and Mr. Smiley took part in the battles of the Wilderness, Coal Harbor, and the engagements about Richmond and Petersburg, until General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. The regiment then returned north and was mustered out at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Smiley was for three years color bearer with the rank of sergeant, and was advanced to the rank of second lieutenant. During his service of three years and eleven months he was never off duty for sickness, and was injured but once, that being a slight wound on the back of the head which left him stunned; the captain seeing him motionless upon the ground thought him killed.
Upon his return from the front, Mr. Smiley resumed work as a blacksmith, at Wurtemburg, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, where he continued five or six years, then went to Wampum where he was employed as blacksmith for the Wampum Furnace Company for a period of eleven years. At the end of that time he purchased a farm of sixty-seven acres of his uncle, John Smiley, and lived here continuously after that time. He made many improvements on the place, and in 1891 erected a comfortable home. [TCHNCLC, 829]
Religiously, Mr. and Mrs. Smiley were members of the Slippery Rock Presbyterian Church. He was a Republican in politics; and a member of Wampum Post, No. 381, G. A. R.

1 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 829.

2 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 349.

3 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 829, 880.

4 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 830.

5 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 321.

6 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 159, 321.