James H. Smalley
James H, Smalley, farmer, is a son of Thomas Smalley, who was born in Loudon County, Virginia, March 16, 1792, and came to this state in about 1800, with his family, who settled in Highland County. He was married March 23, 1823, to Mary Ann, daughter of Phillip Wagner, of Georgia. She bore him six children: Phillip W., George, Elizabeth, John, Hiram B., and James H.; the deceased are Phillip, George and Elizabeth. They were members of the Baptist Church, of Greenfield, and died in that faith.
Our subject was born December 4, 1837, in Buckskin Township, Ross County, and was reared on his father's farm till twenty years of age, then took a trip west, returning at .the expiration of a year, and June 21, 1860, married Martha E., daughter of James McConnel, who was born near Wheling, Virginia, removed to Ross County, thence to this, where he died July 3, 1869. His wife still survives him, and resides with our subject. Mr. Smalley has nine children, of whom Nancy A. has passed beyond the river. He and his wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church, of Greenfield, and endeavor to fulfill the Master's commands. Politically he is a Democrat, but no office seeker. During the rebellion he went out with the many others from this county, who were called out during the invasion by Morgan; went to St. Marys, Virginia, where he remained until after the capture of Morgan.
In 1863, he purchased his present farm, which consists of seventy-one acres, is well improved, and located three miles from Greenfield, on the Good Hope and Greenfield pike, and has lived here since, and farms to both grain and stock.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County