A man's father remarried.

The evidence

• “In a few months after, Nicholas entered the family of a firmer named James Virden, to whom he was bound until he should reach his majority. His father remarried in 1847, when Vir.len relinquished all further claim to young Smith's services, and he went to live with his father, at Hazel Green, Grant Co. At the age of 11, he was put to work with his brother James in the lead mines.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/17-bios-janesville.md, PDF p. 720 / book p. 724

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources