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             Husband: Ephraim SMITH (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11)
                Born: 1806 (12)
             Married: 26 NOV 1829 (80 81)
                Died: 10 DEC 1883 (13)
              Buried: in Great Hill Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (14 15)
              Father: John SMITH
              Mother: Anny FANTON
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Esther HOLBROOK (16 17 18 19 20 21)
                Born: 26 FEB 1812 (22 23)
                Died: 06 NOV 1891 (24)
              Buried: in Great Hill Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (25 26)
              Father: Richard HOLBROOK
              Mother: Grace HAWKINS
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Robert John SMITH (27 28 29 30)
                Born: 01 MAR 1832 (31)
                Died: 11 FEB 1900 (32)
             Spouses: Jennette L. CANFIELD
02               (F): Sarah Ann SMITH (33 34)
                Born: 16 NOV 1833 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (35)
                Died:
             Spouses: Beach SHELTON
03               (M): Albert Daniel SMITH (36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45)
                Born: 25 MAY 1837 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (46 47 48)
                Died: 15 FEB 1909 (49)
             Spouses: Elizabeth Maria HUDSON
04               (F): Laura Cornelia SMITH (50 51 52 53 54)
                Born: 20 JUN 1842 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (55)
                Died: 11 OCT 1930 (56)
             Spouses: Alfred Bennett CHATFIELD; Morrell FRANCIS
05               (F): Lucy Esther SMITH (57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64)
                Born: 20 APR 1846 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (65 66)
                Died: 10 APR 1920 (67)
             Spouses: Frank H. DOWNS
06               (M): Henry Ephraim SMITH (68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77)
                Born: 04 MAR 1850 (78)
                Died: 01 JUL 1926 (79)
             Spouses: Virginia Jeannette DAVIS

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 137.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/137.html.]
  2. Ibid., 142.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/142.html.]
  3. 1850 Oxford Census.
  4. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
    [Next to brother John.]
  5. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  6. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  7. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976).
    1. Smith House c. 1750.
    [ Map, photo and information about the Smith house can be found in this book.
    Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  8. 1852 Oxford Map (Unidentified, found in collection of Oxford Historical Society by Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Municipal Historian.").
    Eph Smith.
    [ Rock House Hill Road
    http://oxfordpast.net/map.html.]
  9. 1856 Oxford Map (Unidentified, found in collection of Oxford Historical Society by Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Municipal Historian).
    Eph Smith.
    [ Rock House Hill Road
    http://oxfordpast.net/map.html.]
  10. F. W. Beers, 1868 map (Reproduced for the Oxford Historical Society, Inc. 1977).
    [Excerpt from1868 map, Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm
    E. Smith, Rock House Hill Road
    http://www.oxfordpast.net/1868RockHouseHillE.jpg.]
  11. 1997 photo by Andrew Pehanick, courtesy of Oxford Municipal Historian, Dorothy DeBisschop.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/h001.jpg.]
  12. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 142.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/142.html.]
  13. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 92.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan92.html.]
  14. Ibid., 92.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan92.html.]
  15. Great Hill Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem10714.html.]
  16. 1850 Oxford Census.
  17. 1860 Oxford Census.
  18. 1870 Oxford Census.
  19. 1880 Oxford Census.
  20. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 731.
  21. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 143.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/143.html.]
  22. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 96.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan96.html.]
  23. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 240.
  24. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 92.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan92.html.]
  25. Ibid., 92.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan92.html.]
  26. Great Hill Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem4084.html.]
  27. 1850 Oxford Census.
    John R. / Farmer.
    [At home w/ parents.]
  28. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Robert J. / General Mason.
    [At home w/ parents.]
  29. 1880 Derby Census.
    Mason.
  30. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 143.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/143.html.]
  31. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 93.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan93.html.]
  32. Ibid., 93.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan93.html.]
  33. 1850 Oxford Census.
  34. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Sarah A.
  35. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 113.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/113.html.]
  36. Ibid., 106.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/106.html.]
  37. Ibid., 107.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/107.html.]
  38. 1850 Oxford Census.
  39. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farming.
  40. 1870 Seymour Census.
    Farmer.
  41. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  42. 1900 New Haven Census.
    Farmer.
  43. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 10.
    Just above this noted cellar is located the former home of the late Albert Smith. In 1878 he purchased a farm of about 60 arcres of Wm. H. Clark, and built thereon a substantial house and commodious barn. He worked on the farm for many years. He married Elizabeth Hudson, daughter of Ransom Hudson, of Oxford. They had three children. Mary, who married the late C. B. Johnson, of Quaker Farms; Carrie, unmarried, lives in New Haven and Herbert, who lives in East Haven. He died about four years ago in New haven. His wife died last summer in East Haven.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-10.html.]
  44. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford, CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), 84.
    1884 ... Town Officers. Assessors - Albert D. Smith ... Moderators - A. D. Smith, checking.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/p84.html.]
  45. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 144.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/144.html.]
  46. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 93.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan93.html.]
  47. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 113.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/113.html.]
  48. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 49.
  49. Ibid., 49.
  50. 1850 Oxford Census.
  51. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Laura C. / School Teacher.
  52. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Cornelia L. / School Teacher.
  53. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 2.
    Bennett lived at home until he m. Celia Smith, daughter of Ephraim Smith of Rockhouse Hill. Soon after he went to Oregon and was never heard from after. It was supposed that he was killed by the Indians. His widow m. Frances, of Rockhouse Hill.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-02.html.]
  54. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 142.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/142.html.]
  55. Ibid., 113.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/113.html.]
  56. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 49.
  57. 1850 Oxford Census.
  58. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Lucy E.
  59. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Esther L. / at home.
  60. 1880 Oxford Census.
    [Rock House Hill, next to Marietta Smith.]
  61. 1900 Oxford Census.
  62. 1910 Oxford Census.
  63. 1920 Seymour Census.
  64. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 144.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/144.html.]
  65. Ibid., 113.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/113.html.]
  66. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 101.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan101.html.]
  67. Ibid., 101.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan101.html.]
  68. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 144.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/144.html.]
  69. 1850 Oxford Census.
  70. 1860 Oxford Census.
  71. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Farm help.
  72. 1880 Oxford Census.
  73. 1900 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  74. 1910 Oxford Census.
    Hired man.
    [Living at the home of William Palmer and family.]
  75. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford, CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), 84.
    1884 ... Town Officers ... Auditors - H. E. Smith.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/p84.html.]
  76. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 431.
  77. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 76.
  78. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 113.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/113.html.]
  79. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 49.
  80. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 240.
  81. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 143.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/143.html.]

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