Sheldon SMITH & Grace SMITH

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             Husband: Sheldon SMITH (1 2 3 4)

                Born: 13 DEC 1780 in Derby, New Haven, CT (5 6)
             Married:
                Died: 23 FEB 1867 (7)
              Buried: in Oak Cliff Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (8 9)
              Father: Josiah SMITH
              Mother: Esther SMITH
             Spouses:

                Wife: Grace SMITH (10 11 12 13 14)

                Born: l 1787 (15)
                Died: 27 JUN 1875 (16)
              Buried: in Oak Cliff Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (17 18)
              Father: William Clark SMITH
              Mother: Rebecca WASHBURN
             Spouses:

Children

01               (M): John D. SMITH (19 20 21)
                Born: 12 FEB 1804 in Derby, New Haven, CT (22)
                Died: 04 SEP 1849 in Derby, New Haven, CT (23)
             Spouses: Jane LUM

02               (F): Laura SMITH
                Born: l 1808 (24)
                Died: 19 MAR 1810 (25)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (26 27)
             Spouses:

03               (F): Sarah Grace SMITH
                Born: l 1810 (28)
                Died: 02 APR 1820 (29)
              Buried: in Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, New Haven, CT (30)
             Spouses:

04               (M): William SMITH (31 32 33 34)
                Born: 04 SEP 1811 (35)
                Died: 14 SEP 1889 (36)
             Spouses: Laura BASSETT

05               (M): Sheldon C. SMITH (37)
                Born: l 1813 (38)
                Died: 21 JUN 1858 (39)
              Buried: in Oak Cliff Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (40 41)
             Spouses:

06               (F): Julia Ann SMITH (42 43 44 45 46 47)
                Born: 05 AUG 1817 in Connecticut (48)
                Died: 15 FEB 1906 (49)
             Spouses: Gilbert WHEELER

07               (F): Elizabeth SMITH (50 51 52 53)
                Born: 15 AUG 1819 (54)
                Died: 21 JAN 1900 (55)
              Buried: in Oak Cliff Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (56 57)
             Spouses:

08               (F): Rebecca C. SMITH
                Born: l 1821 (58)
                Died: 27 MAY 1840 (59)
              Buried: in Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, New Haven, CT (60)
             Spouses:

09               (M): Samuel M. SMITH
                Born: l 1826 (61)
                Died: 02 JAN 1849 (62)
              Buried: in Oak Cliff Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (63 64)
             Spouses:

10               (M): Frederick SMITH (65)
                Born: l 1829 (66)
              Buried: in Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, New Haven, CT (67)
             Spouses:

Footnotes

Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 647.
... many years selctman, and represented the town in the Legislature, and was instrumental in building the first Methodist church in Birmingham. He was the father of thirteen children ...
Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 554.
1850 Derby Census.
Farmer.
1860 Derby Census.
Farmer.
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), 293.
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 761.
Oak Cliff Cemetery Photograph - Derby CT.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem18997.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem18997.html.]
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oak Cliff Cemetery, 140.
[http://oxfordpast.net/occemscan140.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 814.
Josiah Smith | died Nov 23 1829 aged 81.
Esther Smith his wife | died Sept 13 1800 aged 45.
Hannah Smith his 2d wife | died Dec 30 1810 aged 57.
Mabel Smith his 3d wife | died June 12 1825 aged 59.
Also three children and one grand child | of Josiah and Esther Smith.
Esther died Nov 22 1793, aged 18
Elijah died May 12 1794 aged 5 ys.
Sally died May 25 1800 aged 7 mo.
Laura daughter of Sheldon and | Grace Smith died March 19 1810 aged 2 years.
Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 554.
1850 Derby Census.
1860 Derby Census.
1870 Derby Census.
[Living w/ daughter Julia Ann and husband.]
Oak Cliff Cemetery Photograph - Derby CT.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem19002.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem19002.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem19002.html.]
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oak Cliff Cemetery, 140.
[http://oxfordpast.net/occemscan140.html.]
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), 263, 291.
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 646.
He took charge of Union church, now Trinity, at Humphreysville at Easter, 1834, and was its rector nearly until his death ... He was poor-master for some time and also kept a book-store.
Ibid., 470.
... Union Church, Humphreysville ... Rev. John D. Smith, eleven years, who officiated in this church every Sunday the first five years, and the next two divided his time between this church and St. Peter's of Oxford ...
Ibid., 646.
Ibid., 646.
Ibid., 814.
Ibid., 814.
Ibid., 814.
Josiah Smith | died Nov 23 1829 aged 81.
Esther Smith his wife | died Sept 13 1800 aged 45.
Hannah Smith his 2d wife | died Dec 30 1810 aged 57.
Mabel Smith his 3d wife | died June 12 1825 aged 59.
Also three children and one grand child | of Josiah and Esther Smith.
Esther died Nov 22 1793, aged 18
Elijah died May 12 1794 aged 5 ys.
Sally died May 25 1800 aged 7 mo.
Laura daughter of Sheldon and | Grace Smith died March 19 1810 aged 2 years.
Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem19011.html.]
Bare Plains Cemetery Photograph - Ansonia, CT.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29478.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29478.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29478.html.]
Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 25, 71.
William Smith, 3rd.
1850 Derby Census.
Wm Smith, Jr. / Butcher.
1860 Derby Census.
[Next to Sheldon and Grace Smith.]
1870 Huntington Census.
Farmer.
Oak Cliff Cemetery Photograph - Derby CT.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem17619.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem17619.html.]
1850 Derby Census.
Oak Cliff Cemetery Photograph - Derby CT.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29480.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29480.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29480.html.]
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oak Cliff Cemetery, 140.
[http://oxfordpast.net/occemscan140.html.]
1850 Derby Census.
1860 Derby Census.
1870 Derby Census.
1880 Derby Census.
1900 Derby Census.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Aug 1817.
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oak Cliff Cemetery, 141.
[http://oxfordpast.net/occemscan141.html.]
1850 Derby Census.
1860 Derby Census.
[At home w/ parents.]
1870 Derby Census.
[At the home of her sister Julia Ann.]
1880 Derby Census.
[At the home of her sister Julia Ann.]
Oak Cliff Cemetery Photograph - Derby CT.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29481.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29481.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29481.html.]
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oak Cliff Cemetery, 140.
[http://oxfordpast.net/occemscan140.html.]
Bare Plains Cemetery Photograph - Ansonia, CT.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29477.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29477.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29477.html.]
Oak Cliff Cemetery Photograph - Derby CT.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29482.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29482.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29482.html.]
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oak Cliff Cemetery, 140.
[http://oxfordpast.net/occemscan140.html.]
1850 Derby Census.
Ibid.
Bare Plains Cemetery Photograph - Ansonia, CT.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem29479.html.]

Revised: 24-Mar-10


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