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- Even though each record states he was born in a different place, I believe he was born in Canada as his sister, Bertha Asche was born in Canada and migrated to the United States in 1898 and lived in Pennsylvania. I have post cards to Richard Smith in Montana from her and her children.
1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Bertha E Ashe
Home in 1900: Brokenstraw, Warren, Pennsylvania
Age: 39
Birth Date: Jul 1860
Birthplace: Canada (Eng.) [Canada English]
Race: White
Gender: Female
Immigration Year: 1898
Relationship to Head of House: Wife
Father's Birthplace: Canada (Eng.)
Mother's Birthplace: Canada (Eng.)
Mother: number of living children: 3
Mother: How many children: 5
Spouse's name: William
Marriage Year: 1889
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 11
Neighbors:
Household Members: Name Age
William Ashe 33
Bertha E Ashe 39
Elsie E Ashe 9
Earnest W Ashe 7
Bertha L Ashe 5
Both parents were listed in the 1910 census as English Canadians
The 1894 federal census, Michigan, Bay Co. Pinconning Village, dated June 8, 1894 (film #915292) page 206 family 822:
Smith,Richard, age 30 M Boarder, single, carpenter, bp Indiana, father bp Canada, mother bp Indiana
15 years in state.
Sly, Elizabeth. age 35 F wife marr, 3 children, 3 living, bp Indiana, fath bp Canada, mo bp Indiana
15 years in state
Sly, Carrie age 15 F daug single, bp Michigan, father bp Indiana, mother bp Indiana
Sly, Addie M age 12 F daug single, bp Michigan, father bp Indiana, mother bp Indiana
Sly, Earnest age 10 M son single, bp Michigan father bp Indiana, mother bp Indiana
1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Richard Smith
Age in 1910: 44 [49]
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1866 [abt 1861]
Birthplace: Canada, Irish
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: Canada English
Mother's Birth Place: Canada English
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth
Home in 1910: School District 10, Lincoln, Montana
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Year of Immigration: 1894
Household Members: Name Age
Richard Smith 44
Elizabeth Smith 31
Bertha I Hserman 7
1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Richard Smith
Home in 1930: Terriault, Lincoln, Montana
Age: 68
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1862
Birthplace: Michigan
Relation to Head of House: Head widow
Race: White
Occupation: labor, Education: Military service: no, own home value: Age at first marriage: Parents' birthplace: bothPennsylvania
Household Members: Name Age
Richard Smith 68
Montana Death Index, 1860-2007
Name: Richard Smith
Age: 71
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1861
Gender: Male
Death Date: 1 Feb 1932
Index Number: BT 8350
Source: Montana Office of Vital Statistics
Obituary (Eureka Mirror) 26 Mar 1937
Richard (Dick) Smith, an old time resident of this district, passed away Sunday night at the Libby hospital where he had been taken for treatment.
Mr. Smith was one of the outstanding characters in this neighborhood and spent most of time fighting conditions which he believed to be wrong. Many stories are told of his early day battles with the lumber and public officials.
Funeral services were held yesterday morning from Gumpfs Funeral home with Rev Fred A Datton of the full Gospel Church officiating.
Richard Smith was born about 1860 in Canada. He was listed in the Michigan 1894 census as a carpenter. It is said that in Montana he was a bricklayer, then a ditch tender of the irrigation ditch and that little by little he lost most of his land through lawsuits he initiated. It is also said that he was ornery, but Bertha remembers him as kind to her. After Libby died and Dick got old, he moved to town with one of their old neighbors and some one took what they wanted out of the house and it was burned to the ground. So nothing was left." "When Dick was buried, I was surprised as he was a real good looking man. He always wore a mustache and the undertaker shaved it off. The reason he wore a mustache, he had a big birth mark on his upper lip. And he was so clean." Richard Smith died in Eureka, Montana.
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1861 - 1932 (71 years)
