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             Husband: Fitch SMITH
                Born: 14 MAY 1772 (1)
Christened: 28 JUN 1772 in First Congregational Church Of Derby (2)
Married:
Died: 05 FEB 1838 (3 4)
Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (5 6 7)
Father: Abraham SMITH
Mother: Sarah FRENCH
Spouses:
                Wife: Sarah BALDWIN
                Born: l 1773 (8)
Died: 04 JUL 1839 (9 10)
Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (11 12 13)
Father: Elijah BALDWIN
Mother: Margaret LESTER
Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Elijah Fitch SMITH (14)
Born: l 1806 (15)
Died: 02 JUN 1885 (16)
Spouses: Mary Jane FINLEY
02               (M): John Lester SMITH (17 18)
Born: FEB 1809 in Derby, New Haven, CT (19)
Died: 17 OCT 1895 (20)
Spouses: Jennett E. OSBORN; Henrietta GORUM

Footnotes

  1. 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), 290.
  2. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 479.
    Church Records.
  3. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 813.
  4. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 267.
  5. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 813.
    In memory | of Fitch Smith | who died Feb 5 1838 | aged 65 years.
  6. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 267.
  7. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
  8. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 813.
  9. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 267.
  10. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 813.
  11. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 267.
  12. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 813.
    In memory of | Sarah | wife of | Fitch Smith | who died July 4, 1839 | aged 66.
  13. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
  14. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 813.
    Mary Jane | wife of Elijah F Smith | died | Feb 1 1852 | ae 43 yrs.
    Affliction sore long time I bore
    Physicians' art was vain
    Till God was pleased that death should seize
    And ease me of my pain
    Farewell my husband and my children
    Farewell to all on earth
    I hope to meet you all in heaven
    Where parting is no more.
  15. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 267.
  16. Ibid., 267.
  17. 1850 Derby Census.
  18. 1880 Huntington Census.
  19. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 267.
  20. Ibid., 267.

Revised: 10-Aug-08
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