Iron County Record | 1972-08-10 | Page 6 | Jesse N. Smith Group to Meet Here for Saturday Reunion

Jesse N.Smith group to meet here for Saturday reunion The century-old home of Jesse N. Smith in Parovvan will be the center for the annual an-nual reunion on Saturday of members of his family from all parts of the state. The event will begin at noon with api cnic lunch under direction of Mrs. Marion Graf of Santa Clara, reunion chair- man. It will be followed by a heritage program touching on the history of family members in Parowan. Special participants will include in-clude Dr. Oliver R. Smith of Provo, president of the Jesse N. Smith Family organization, and N. Pratt Smith, Bountiful, first vice president. The gathering will mark the anniversary of the birth of Mary Aikens Smith, a pioneer mother and school teacher who came to Parowan in 1851 with her two sons, Silas Sanford . Smith and Jesse N. Smith. The adobe home built by Jesse N. Smith in 1857 and re- -stored by the family in 1967 has been named to the state's century register of historic sites.. Its builder served in the Utah territorial legislature ,. , and served as Parowan's mayor may-or and Iron County Clerk dur- . ing his residence in the com- munity.