Smith, G. W. T. bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 862, Pleasant Township
G. W. T. Smith was born in Tennessee Oct. 19, 1821, son of Arthur and Christina Smith; has always followed farming; came to this State in 1834, settling in Pleasant tp.; Sept. 7, 1844, he married Mary A. Bonnel, who was born in Indiana Dec. 3, 1839, and they have had 7 children, 4 of whom are living, - Christina, Mary J., Samuel, Henrietta: 3 children died in infancy. Mr. Smith is a well-to-do farmer on sec. 12. Methodist. P. O., Ipava.
Note: With Mary A. Bonnel's birthdate and the marriage date, she would have been 5 years old at the time of the marriage.