Margaret Evelyn Smith

• Name	Margaret Evelyn Smith
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I342223160577	Tripp Family Genealogical Website

  
  

  Father	J. A. Smith
  Mother	Eliza J. (-) Smith
  Family ID	F55065	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	James Stephen Church,   b. 02 Aug 1859, Afton, Rock County, Wisconsin
  Marriage	27 Dec 1879
  Children	1. Lawrence F. Church,   b. 01 Oct 1880, Buena Vista, Oregon   2. Charles J. Church,   b. 18 Nov 1882, Buena Vista, Oregon   3. Ethel C. Church,   b. 18 Nov 1884, North Albina, Oregon   4. Sarah Bernice Church,   b. 19 Nov 1886, Albina, Oregon   5. Florence A. Church,   b. 30 Sep 1888, Albina, Oregon d. 31 August 1889, Agate Beach, Oregon (Age 0 years)   6. Mildred Louise Church,   b. 13 Aug 1890, Albina, Oregon   7. Stephen Arthur Church,   b. 20 Aug 1892, Portland, Clackamas, Oregon, USA d. 05 Jun 1935, Portland, Clackamas, Oregon, USA (Age 42 years)   8. Wilmot Freeman Church,   b. 15 Feb 1894   d. Apr 1967, Portland, Clackamas, Oregon, USA (Age 73 years)   9. Oliver Church
  Family ID	F54979	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Mrs. Church is a neice of William Hampton Smith, a pioneer of 1859, who crossed the plains, starting fronm Cedar Rapids, Iowa, of which city the father of Mr. Smith was one of the founders. A large party was made up for the journey, but many difficulties arose in the long and toilsome trip across the plains and mountains and before the end was reached many members of the party were claimed by sickness and death. The survivors came by way of California and located at Eugene, Oregon, wheere Mr. Smith found employment as clerk in a store and teacher in the village school. In the fall of 1865, with his father and brothers, he started the Oregon Pottery Company, the first manufactory of stoneware that was launched in the northwest. After several years, connection with this enterprise he left Eugene and located at Fort Clatsop in Clatsop County, where he resided until 1882, when he reentered the pottery business, founding at Portland, the Western Clay Manufacturing Company, which under his management became highly successful. Mr. Smith was a man of unusual mental power, and an original thinker in many lines. At the time of his death, July 13, 1910, in his seventy fourth year, he had completed five books which weere ready for publication. The list includes a geological work, a politacal work and a volume containing reminiscences of his trip across the plains and two works of fiction. he was always a public spirited man and profound believer in the effect of education in elevating the life and character of the individual. Margaret died in the influenza epidemic, July 1918.