Arvilla Delight Smith

Held hostage with her daughter Josephine after husband Nathan Meeker was killed in a Colorado…

Nathan Cook Meeker

Social reformer sent to Colorado by Horace Greeley was the victim of an Indian uprising. He was…

Josephine Meeker

Daughter of Nathan Meeker who wrote and lectured about her experiences in the Meeker massacre.…

Ralph Lovejoy Meeker

Journalist for the New York Herald who exposed corruption in the Ulysses Grant…

Harriet E. Smith

Raised as Hattie Smith in North Bloomfield, Ohio, she married Herbert Stetson in Earlville, Iowa…

Martha Haskell

Daughter of Captain Haskell born in Chautauqua who married Josiah T. Smith in Trumbull County,…

Levi Smith

Early settler in Bloomfield Township, Trumbull County, in the Ohio Western Reserve

Patty Smith

The twice-widowed Ohioan set off for a new adventure in Iowa

Josiah Smith

Revolutionary War veteran whose descendants settled Ohio, Iowa and points west