LOUISA L. (SMITH) PAYNE

LOUISA L. (SMITH) PAYNE – b. Detroit, Michigan Territory, December 4, 1808. Louisa Lavinia Smith was the daughter of Jacob Smith, the first permanent European settler in Pewaunaukee (“flinty place”) at the Grand Traverse of the Saginaw Trail (today Flint). Though Jacob Smith’s negotiations in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw, his children under Indian names, were granted territory around the Flint River as part of Smith’s Reserve. Louisa, or Annokitoqua, and her husband Chauncey Payne, were involved in the city’s early development and donated land for multiple churches. d. Flint, Michigan, February 8, 1888.