When James Smith was born in 1877 in Oakworth, Yorkshire, England, his father, Robert, was 36 and his mother, Catherine, was 35. He had four brothers and two sisters. He died in October 1968 in Cumberland, Rhode Island, at the age of 91.
Not much is known of Uncle Jim. He shows up on the census reports in the 1930’s as working on his brother Alexander’s farm on Gardiner Road in Richmond RI. My father, Ted said that Uncle Jim fought in the Spanish America War.
As far as I know, he never married nor had any children.