Samuel SMITH

HUSBAND:
[F134]. Samuel SMITH.
Born probably at Goshen, Orange County, New York. Goshen was later renamed Warwick.

He is said to be the son of Isaiah SMITH [F268].

His family was apparently members of the Presbyterian Church at Goshen.

He married Jane STEPHENS [F135].

He had a curry shop (tanning yard) in Warwick, near the creek where Smith street now is. Some of the old vats were dug up in digging the cellar for James Decker’s house on Smith street. Samuel’s home was opposite his shop. (S4). The original Samuel Smith home is located on the Bellvale Road and called "Fair Acres".

Samuel Smith, before 1840, ran a tan yard.

He died 21 MAR 1811 at Warwick, Orange County, New York. It has also been reported that there is a family journal of Abraham Newberry, son of James A. Newberry, that says that Samuel Smith did not die in New York, but moved to Indian lands in Iowa, and may have died in Iowa sometime after his daughter Mary in 1842.

A document was submitted at a family reunion by Wilma Newberry. This information was among her father's papers at the time of his death and was written by Mrs. Edith Pusey Durand McColl, who is the grand daughter of Arsenath Newberry and Daniel Durand. One of the most interesting things the document tells about is the death of Mary Smith's father, Samuel Smith in Mills County about the time that James and Sybil Pulsipher were there.(S9).

It says, in part: "James A. Newberry, married Sybil Pulsipher April 22, 1845, place unknown. She died Jan. 20th 1870 at Indian Creek, Mills Co., Iowa of heart failure….Grandfather Smith died at Indian Creek Jan. 11, 1870. The same minister, a Mr. Shearer, preached both funerals." (S9).

WIFE:
[F135]. Jane STEPHENS.
Daughter of STEPHENS [F270]. She married Samuel SMITH [F134].

Jane’s parents are also said to be Ebenezer Stevens and Elizabeth Holly, however, this has not been documented. According to the Susannah Whitcomb file at OCGS, Jane Stephens parents may actually have been Obadiah Stevens Jr. and Elizabeth Lydia Scofield. (Thanks to Robert Acoveno for this information in December of 2002.) In the late summer of 2002, Larue Olson spent considerable time and effort looking into the documentation for this family and was unable to corroborate the information presented in the ancestral file. She has also engaged Barbara DiMunno in looking for this information in Orange County. There are no Holly's mentioned in the Newberry Journal ca 1841. (S2).

She died at Warwick, Orange County, New York.

CHILDREN of Samuel SMITH [F134] and Jane STEPHENS [F135]:
  1. [F67] Mary SMITH. Born 11 JUN 1792 at Warwick, Orange, New York. She married James Abraham NEWBERRY [F66] on 24 August 1811 in Orange County, New York, probably in Warwick. Mary died 2 December (20 November) 1842 at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois.
  2. Samuel SMITH Jr.
  3. Nancy SMITH. Born 11 September 1796 in the Town of Warwick, New York. She married Jeremiah Stevens who was born 4 October 1782 in the town of Warwick, New York and who died 20 September 1846 in the Town of Chester, N.Y. She died 17 March 1833 in the Town of Warwick. Nancy was a child bride. Her third child was born in 1812. The other two - born in 1810 & 1811. Jeremiah and Nancy are both interred in a small Smith family Cemetery. It is located on a hill in the sheep pasture.


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