FIFTH GENERATION

10. Christina Venables Vernon was born on 18 Mar 1830 in Liverpool Lancastershire England. She died on 5 Feb 1920 in Salt Lake City.

She was married to John Fewson Smith (son of Robert Smith and Mary Fewson) on 27 Apr 1863 in Hull, East Yorkshire, England. John Fewson Smith was born on 1 Jan 1834 in Preston, Yorkshire England. He died on 5 May 1909 in 610 3rd Ave. Salt Lake City UT. He was buried on 9 May 1909 in Salt Lake City Cemetery. notes from Virginia Wooley Andrus

John Fewson Smith the husband of Chistiana Venables Vernon Smith was elected a member of the Salt Lake City Council in 1888 and again in 1890 and at that time served as Chairman of the Water Commission. He was an Engineer and worked very hard in building railroads through out western United States.

Notes from Pete Fewson

John Fewson Smith, The middle name Fewson would be taken on his conversion to the Mormon Church. On arrival in Utah he was a railroad man working for Horton D haight Company. John Fewson Smith, the railroad pioneer of utah was ordained a Priest by Elder Hugh Finaly, and later, an Elder. John & Christina crossed the plains with ox-teams, arriving in Salt Lake City on the 4th Oct 1863 having left Hull in May fo the same year. In the Spring of 1864, Elder Smith was engaged as assistant engineer on the survey of the Union Pacific Railway, which position he filled until its completion in 1869. He next took part in the location and construction of the Utah Central Railway, from Ogden to Salt Lake City. He afterwards engaged in Government surveys in Utah; was United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor, and also conducted several extensive explorations across the Great Desertand mountain ranges lying between Utah & the Pacific Coast in the intereest of the Union Pacific and other railways. In 1872 he located a narrow gauge railway in american Fork Canyon, and in the following year was chief engineer and one of the principal promotoers of hte Utah & Pleasant valley Railway, another narrow gauge railway running from Springfield to the coalfields in Pleasant valley and which afterwards merged into the Rio Grande Western Railway. In February 1888, he was elected a member of the City Council of Salt Lake City from the fourth precinct, and was re-elected in 1890, being the only member of the old council to be returned; and one of the unfortunate six who after having been duly elected, were denied their certificates which were wrongly given to the Liberal party Candidates, but afterwards were awarded to them by the courts. In 1891 he went to Mexico in the interest of John W Young's railroad speculation, and in 1895 explored a route from El Paso, Texas to the "Mormon" Colonies in Chihuahua, Mexico, for a New York Syndicate. The railway was built under the name of "The Rio Grande Sierra Madre & Pacific Railway", of which he was Chief Engineer. Elder John Fewson Smith was ordained a High Priest April 4th 1896. Christina Venables Vernon and John Fewson Smith had the following children:

+27 i. John Fewson Vernon Smith.
+28 ii. Robert Joseph Vernon Smith.
29 iii. Augusta Maria Marguerita Vernon Smith was born on 6 May 1870 in Salt Lake City Utah. She died on 6 Oct 1871 in Salt Lake City.
+30 iv. Reinold William Horatio Vernon Smith.