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Person · Patience Kittle
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationPatience Kittle
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
How to read this record
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Most family trees flatten everything into the same confident typeface. This one does not.
The three research tags below are the whole point of the exercise: they say what a document
proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
ConfirmedAttested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a
government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
Living — withheldThe person is living. By the privacy rule for this page, name and relationship are
shown, and at most a year the family has already published. Full dates of birth, ages,
places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- Not found
- Died
- Not found
- Married
- Jeremiah Smith
- Children
- Victoria Janette Smith
- Sources
- 4
Research status
Research status: PROBABLE — the printed
Descendants of Moses Cleveland, p.1939, no. 11632, names Victoria Janette Smith as the daughter of Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kittle
S467. A compiled genealogy; two later records name her as the mother of other children (below), but none names Victoria
Evidence: The printed Descendants of Moses Cleveland (p.1939), which names Victoria Janette Smith as her daughter; her son Lucien B. Smith's 1913 Michigan marriage return (Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kettle) and her daughter Louisa Hiscock's 1883 death return (Jeremiah and Patience Smith). Weak or missing: Only the compiled genealogy ties her to Victoria; Lucien's 1922 death certificate calls her Mary Kettel. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Life in the order the records give it
Birth—
Birth, marriage and death dates not yet found
Death1913
🆕 Two Michigan records made after her death name her as a mother. In 1913 her son
Lucien B. Smith, 66, born in Ohio, married at Webberville; the return names his parents as
Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kettle S699. His 1922 death certificate calls her “Mary Kettel”
S700. In 1883 her daughter
Louisa Hiscock, born in Ohio, died at Rose, Genesee County; her parents are given as Jeremiah and Patience Smith, both dead
S701. added 26 September 2026.
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
In the record
Generation 6 — Kristin's 3rd-great-grandparents
- S467Descendants of Moses Cleveland (printed genealogy), p. 1939, no. 11632: Charles Edgar Cleveland. Ancestry record 3845121. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Charles Edgar Cleveland, son of Solomon, married 11 April 1866 at Rives, Michigan, Victoria Janette Smith, born 19 March 1844 in Ohio, daughter of Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kittle. In Placer County, California, 1883. Children Anna Jane (1869), Milton (15 July 1873) and Ella. A derivative book. The parents' names agree with the marriage register (S463) and the 1880 census (S465); the ancestry back of Charles Edgar rests on the book alone.
- S699Michigan return of marriages, Ingham County, 1913, no. 6433. Ancestry record 1202370508. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Lucien B. Smith, 66, born Ohio, son of Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kettle, married Mary Galusha, 59, born Canada, at Webberville.
- S700Michigan death certificate, 1922, Ingham County. Ancestry record 602468909. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Lucien B. Smith, born 30 September 1846, Ohio; died 2 April 1922, Leroy Township; buried Webberville; father Jeremiah Smith, born New York; mother “Mary Kettel”, born New York. His own 1913 marriage return (S699) calls his mother Patience.
- S701Michigan death return, Genesee County, 1883, no. 58. Ancestry record 750605953. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Louisa Hiscock, 42 years 6 months, died 2 July 1883 at Rose, born Ohio; parents Jeremiah Smith and Patience Smith, both dead.