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M William Kennedy Smith

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Brantford Weekly Expositor, 24 April 1863:
Died suddenly, in Brantford, on the 23rd inst., Margaret, wife of William Kerby, Esq., and only daughter of William Kennedy Smith, Esq., aged 71 years.
Mrs. Kerby was a native of this place, born long before the Town of Brantford had an existence...

Biography of John Smith, Brantford Expositor, 1 July 1927:
...The oldest son of John Smith was W. K. Smith, who married a sister of Brant and they had two children, A. K. Smith and Margaret. A. K. Smith married a Miss Sophn of Stoney Creek, and he was for many years one of the leading residents of Brantford...Margaret Smith married William Kerby, who for a great many years ran a grist mill here and also had other property. To the brother and sister, the Six Nations Indians granted the Smith and Kerby tract, containing 1,100 acres of land, which, in addition to the 200 acres previously granted A. K. Smith, made 1300 acres, part of the site of the present city. Mr. Smith had a home on the corner of Church street and Brant avenue, and Mr. Kerby, father of James Kerby, who built the Kerby House, lived on a homestead which extended from the present Scarfe avenue to the present Dufferin armories...