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Eleazer Smith was born in Warsaw, New York, May 11 1814. He removed to southern Michigan with his parents in 1827, and there married in his early manhood to Miss Sarah Herindean.
In January 1856, he came to Dayton Township with his family and settled on the farm where he died March 15, 1894, and was buried in the Clark Cemetery.
It was not an easy lot to be a pioneer in those days. The country was a dense forest with a few small clearings,the roads mere trails marked by blazed trees. The nearest place where any of the necessities of life could be bought was fourteen miles away and the nearest railroad fifty miles away. From such a beginning Mr. and Mrs. Smith made their home in the wilderness where they dispensed ready hospitality to many who moved in later The last ten years of his life, Mr. Smith was afflicted with rheumatism to such an extent as to be unable to leave his home. A kind neighbor and patriotic citizen. He was a Wesleyan Methodist.
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