John M Smith

1775 - 1817  (41 years)

• Name	John M Smith  [1]
  Born	20 Nov 1775	Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	16 May 1817	Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I1235	Clark-Hart
  Last Modified	15 Mar 2017

  
  

  Father	Jonas Smith,   b. 1738, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA ,   d. Aug 1802, Ulster, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mercy Buxton,   b. 21 Oct 1744, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA ,   d. 09 Aug 1822, Hornbrook, Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	1763	New York, New York, USA   [2]
  Family ID	F17	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 20 Nov 1775 - Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA Died - 16 May 1817 - Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Page 1200 - History of Bradford County - H.C. Bradsby WILLIAM II. SMITH, senior member of the firm of Smith Bros. & Turner, furniture dealers and undertakers, Towanda, was born in Leavenworth, Ind., December 30, 1839, and is a son of John B. and Lucinda (tlorton) Smith. His paternal grandfather, John M. Smith, was a son of Jesse Smith, a native of Connecticut, who was among the pioneers of Wysox township, this county, where he cleared and improved a farm,'on which he died. John M. Smith, his paternal grandfather, was a life-long resident of Sheshequin township, a farmer b}^ occupation, and died there. He resident of Sheshequin township, a farmer b}^ occupation, and died there. He reared a family of eleven children, of whom John B. was the third child and the third son. John B. was born, reared and married in Sheshequin township, and, with the exception of two years that he lived in Indiana, his life was spent in Bradford county; he died in North Towanda township, in September, 1882; his wife, Lucinda,was a daughter of Elijah Horton, a pioneer of Sheshequin township, and by her had six children, viz.: Clark, Rachel (Mrs. G. L. Fuller), William II., Melissa (Mrs. George W. Ilorton), Alvah C. and Orris (Mrs. Leslie Mills). William H. Smith, the subject of the sketch, was reared in Bradford county, educated in the common schools, and, on reaching his majority, engaged in farming in Wysox township, until 1870, when he removed to North Towanda, and commenced farming and dairying, in which he is still interested. In 1886 he embarked in the furniture and undertaking business, in Towanda, with his brother, Alvah C, and John C. Turner, and they have built up a successful trade. Mr. Smith married, in April, 1866, Eunice L., daughter of Lewis and Jemima (Shores) Gillett, of Sheshequin township, and has two daughters, Mildred and Myra B. Mr. Smith is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of the I. O. O. F., and State Grange; he is serving his first term as member of the Towanda council, and is a Republican in politics.

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Record for jonas Smith [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Record for Mercy Buxton