Jill, I have missed you. Do you know of Barbara in Montana who is working on this? e-mail me at Ecromer @aol.com please. Jusr found father Ira Smith b. 1788, living in York Twp. Elkhart Co. IN in 1880 census near son Ira ChapinSmith.
Ira the father had remarried to an Esther someone.His wife Jane Chapin had died 1864. Elizabeth in Ft. Wayne, IN