Jesse died April 29, 1916. He is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery. (See Chapter 5 on Ludwik Chlopicki.)

SMISER, Adam – He was born in Germany in 1830, came to America in 1854, and to Woodford County in 1857. He was the father of John Smiser, grandfather of Peter Smiser. He was probably not settled on his Palestine farm before 1867, but had been in the area from '57. His farm was on the old State Road: the E 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section 33. He married Margaret Hutch of Germany.

SMITH, Albert – A Belgian, who came to America in 1852 and ran a confectionery store in El Paso's early days.

SMITH, Rev. F. M. – Pastor of the early Panola-El Paso Methodist Church, riding the circuit of that day which included the churches of Chenoa, Secor, El Paso, Willow Tree, Panola and Bunch Grove.

SMITH, Henry – Had an early Secor blacksmith shop in 1857.

SMITH, John – Came from Indiana to El Paso in the late '50's and was an early carpenter here.

SMITHSON, Oscar – His name is in Panola-El Paso Methodist Church books in 1858. He may have been a relative of Rev. R. Smithson, first local Circuit Riding preacher in the local Methodist organization.

SMITHSON, Rev. R. – He was a Traveling, or Circuit Rider Methodist preacher, the first Methodist preacher Panola-El Paso ever had. His first quarterly conference was held in the Panola freight house, as we had no Methodist church in either Panola or El Paso. That date was November 7-8, 1857. Rev. Smithson may not have actually lived in El Paso, but he worked here in his regular church duties, as well as in Panola. The local preacher on this circuit was F. R. Tobias. Smithson was expelled from the Methodist Church for his southern views when the war days came, and he then moved and joined the Methodist Church, South.

SMOOTS, Jacob – He was the earliest sawmill operator near Kappa in the late 1840's. He sold it to Hiram Havens in 1850.

SNYDER, C. K. – Migrated from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1856 and settled on Section 22 in Greene Twp.

SOCKS, M. and C. – It is believed they lived in the El Paso area in the late 1850's.

SOCKS, Nicholas and Barbara – Nicholas was born March 3, 1804 and died March 9, 1887. His wife was born February 20, 1809 and died August 17, 1888. They are known to have been living near El Paso in 1859.

SPARKS, Asa and Amanda – Asa was a storekeeper in Kappa around 1857. He sold the SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 4 in Kansas Twp. to Anderson Van Scyoc on April 19, 1856.

SPAWR, George W. and Elizabeth Messer – They lived along the Mackinaw area in the spring of 1850. Elizabeth was a daughter of the Rev. Isaac Messer.

STEIGELMEIER, Casper – Farmed on Section 25, El Paso Twp. possibly as early as 1852.

STEIGELMEIER, Henry – Farmed in 1853 on Section 25 in El Paso Twp.

STEIGELMEIER, John – Farmed in 1856 on Section 25 in El Paso Twp.

STEPHENS, Louis – Lived in Montgomery Twp. in 1832. (Moore says 1833.) He was the father of William Stephens and Adam Stephens.

STEPHENSON, Cephas M. and Mary A. Livingston – Cephas was born in 1838 and died in 1909, the son of Henry Stephenson, whose land he inherited.

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