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             Husband: Sylvester SMITH (1 2 3 4 5 6)
                Born: 07 DEC 1807 in Springfield, Massachusetts (7 8 9)
             Married: 21 JAN 1827 in Hartford, CT (78)
                Died: 31 MAR 1893 (10)
              Buried: in Methodist Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (11 12)
              Father: Michael SMITH
              Mother: Sabra COTTEN
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Henrietta CADWELL (13 14 15 16 17 18)
                Born: 31 JAN 1806 (19)
                Died: 20 JUN 1880 (20)
              Buried: in Methodist Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (21 22)
              Father: Thomas H. CADWELL
              Mother: >>>
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Vilette LaGrange SMITH
                Born: 01 AUG 1827 (23 24)
                Died: 27 APR 1854 (25)
             Spouses: Charles OSBORN
02               (M): Wilbur Watson SMITH (26 27 28 29 30 31 32)
                Born: 29 JAN 1829 in Connecticut (33 34)
                Died: 16 OCT 1908 (35)
             Spouses: Jane M. WOOSTER
03               (M): William Ezbon SMITH (36)
                Born: 09 DEC 1830 (37)
                Died: 01 SEP 1864 (38 39)
              Buried: in Methodist Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (40 41)
             Spouses: 
04               (M): Howard Benton SMITH
                Born: 26 FEB 1833 (42)
                Died: 23 NOV 1835 (43)
              Buried: in Methodist Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (44)
             Spouses: 
05               (F): Henrietta Amelia SMITH
                Born: 07 DEC 1834 (45 46)
                Died: 09 NOV 1835 (47)
              Buried: in Methodist Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (48)
             Spouses: 
06               (M): Matha J. SMITH (49 50)
                Born: 03 OCT 1836 (51)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
07               (F): Mary A. SMITH (52 53 54 55)
                Born: 03 OCT 1836 (56)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
08               (M): Edward Benson SMITH
                Born: 18 AUG 1839 (57)
                Died: 17 DEC 1841 (58 59)
              Buried: in Methodist Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (60)
             Spouses: 
09               (F): Ellen Amelia SMITH
                Born: 26 OCT 1840 (61 62 63)
                Died: 31 AUG 1851 (64)
              Buried: in Methodist Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (65)
             Spouses: 
10               (M): Robert Newton SMITH (66 67 68)
                Born: 01 AUG 1841 (69 70)
                Died: 11 JAN 1912 (71)
             Spouses: Frances A. SMITH
11               (M): Edward Benson SMITH (72)
                Born: 28 JUN 1845 (73)
                Died: 13 NOV 1856 (74)
              Buried: in Methodist Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (75 76)
             Spouses: 
12               (F): Henrietta SMITH
                Born: 1849 (77)
                Died:
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. 1850 Seymour Census.
    Manufacturer.
  2. 1860 Seymour Census.
    Paper Manufacturer.
  3. 1870 Seymour Census.
    Methodist Clergyman.
  4. 1880 Roxbury Census.
    Clergyman (Methodist).
  5. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 552.
    ... left home to care for himself when only ten years of age ... 1832, when he located in Humphreysville (now Seymour), and went to work for Mr. Daniel White, who was conducting the manufacturing of paper ... represented the town in the legislature and was a member of the State Senate ...
  6. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 108.
    ... twice elected to the State Legislature ...
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp113.html.]
  7. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  8. 1860 Seymour Census.
  9. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 108.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp108.html.]
  10. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  11. Ibid., 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  12. Methodist Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem21015.html.]
  13. 1850 Seymour Census.
  14. 1860 Seymour Census.
  15. 1870 Seymour Census.
  16. 1880 Roxbury Census.
  17. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 552.
  18. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 108.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp108.html.]
  19. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  20. Ibid., 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  21. Ibid., 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  22. Methodist Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem21016.html.]
  23. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  24. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 552.
  25. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  26. 1850 Seymour Census.
    Paper Maker.
  27. 1860 Seymour Census.
    paper making.
  28. 1870 Seymour Census.
    Paper Manufacturer.
  29. 1880 Seymour Census.
    Paper Manufacturer.
  30. 1900 Seymour Census.
    Post Master.
  31. Compiled by Authority of the General Assembly Under Direction of the Adjutants-General, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion. (Hartford, CT, Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1889), 697.
    Twentieth Regiment Infantry
    Company C ...
    Captains:
    Wilbur W. Smith
    Residence: Seymour
    Date of Enlistment: Aug. 5, '62
    Date of muster in this organization: Sep. 8, '62
    Remarks: Pro. from 1st Lt. Co. H. Feb. 24, '63. Cap'd May 3, '63. Chancellorsville, Va. Par. May 13, '63. M. o. June 13, '65.
  32. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 552-3.
    ... assisted in recruiting Co. H. 20th C. V. and was mustered in and commissioned First Lieutenant of the aforesaid company Sept. 8, 1862. Jan. 28, 1863, he was promoted to captain ... captured at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863, and after two months' imprisonment in Libby prison he was paroled and exchanged. He took part in the noted battle of Gettysburg ... 1891 was appointed postmaster ... 1895, he was elected to the office of first selectman and town agent, which office he held until he was again appointed postmaster by President McKinley, which office he now holds (1901).
  33. 1900 Seymour Census.
  34. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 552.
  35. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 6.
  36. 1850 Seymour Census.
    Farmer.
  37. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  38. Ibid., 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  39. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 552.
    ... killed in battle.
  40. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  41. Methodist Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem21018.html.]
  42. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 87.
  43. Ibid., 87.
  44. Ibid., 87.
  45. Ibid., 87.
  46. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 552.
  47. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 87.
  48. Ibid., 87.
  49. 1850 Seymour Census.
  50. 1860 Seymour Census.
  51. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 552.
  52. 1850 Seymour Census.
  53. 1860 Seymour Census.
  54. 1870 Seymour Census.
    Music Teacher.
  55. 1880 Roxbury Census.
  56. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 552.
  57. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 87.
  58. Ibid., 87.
  59. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 552.
    ... died Dec. 7, 1844.
  60. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 87.
  61. Ibid., 87.
  62. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 552.
  63. Ibid., 552.
    Ella Amelia, born Pct. 26, 1849; died Aug. 31, 1851.
  64. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 87.
  65. Ibid., 87.
  66. 1880 Seymour Census.
    Works in paper mill.
  67. 1850 Seymour Census.
  68. 1860 Seymour Census.
  69. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 78.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sycgcemscan78.html.]
  70. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 552.
  71. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 78.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sycgcemscan78.html.]
  72. 1850 Seymour Census.
  73. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  74. Ibid., 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  75. Ibid., 84.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan84.html.]
  76. Methodist Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem21022.html.]
  77. 1850 Seymour Census.
  78. Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), 11818.
    ... by joy H. Fairchild - E. Hartford VR.

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