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Mother's Day

5/13/2018

Wishing all a Happy Mother's Day!

The following are photos I have of my direct ancestor females, with links to blog pages I have written about them in the past.

My 3rd Great-Grandmother, Catherine (Young) Steward with her husband Thomas Steward, and four of her children. One of them may be my 2nd Great-Grandmother, Hannah B Steward.

Catherine (ie Katherine, Katie, Catharine) died in 1875, her burial place unknown.

For more, see blog:
Thomas Steward and wife Catherine Young

Hannah B Steward, daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Young) Steward, my 2nd Great Grandmother. Her name was changed to Alberta Ann Rowell following her adoption. She died in 1901, aged 29 years, from complications after a pregnancy.
I have a page about her here:
Hannah B Steward, aka Alberta Ann Rowell

(above) My 3rd Great-Grandmother, Emily A. (Waitt/Waite) Brown, wife of James W Brown of Kittery, Maine.

Her daughter, Emily Jane Brown (center photo), my 2nd G-Grandmother, married John Kramer of Colchester, CT, but she lived most of her life in Kittery. At right is my Great-Grandmother, Martha (Kramer) Leavitt, Emily's daughter, with myself and siblings.

More about their families here:
Brown - Locke's Cove, Kittery, Maine
Emily Augusta (Waitt) Brown
My Waitt (Waite) Family from Malden, MA
Emily Jane (Brown) Kramer

My maternal line continues..

My Great-Grandmother, Annie (Knight) Smith (pictured here on porch with her sister Abbie). Her daughter, Alice (photo on right), is my gram (with me helping her at church bake sale...nice batch of brownies there!)

(at left) My mom and I on (I believe) Pest Island in the Piscataqua River.

My paternal line:

My Pridham relatives here, including my grandmother Alice (Pridham) Dow, and her mother, my Great-Grandmother Louise (Condon) Pridham.

More about this family is written here:
The Pridhams of Puddle Dock (Portsmouth, NH)

My Great-Grandmother, Dorothy M (Yeaton) Dow, the daughter of Nathaniel B and Louisa M (Meloon) Yeaton.

I have a blog post written about her here:
In Memory of Great-Grandmother Yeaton

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Robert and Susanna Smith

8/6/2017

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ROBERT and SUSANNA ( ) SMITH, my 9th Great-Grandparents. They are buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery in Hampton, New Hampshire.

According to the "History of Hampton", pg 978, Robert Smith was of Exeter, NH, and was a signer of the Combination in 1639. As early as 1657, he had settled in Hampton. A marriage date, and maiden name of his wife Susanna, is unknown.

The inscriptions on the stones read:
ROBERT SMITH "DYED 30 AGUSt 1706 AGED 95"

SUSANNA SMITH "DYED JUN 12, 1680 AGED 71"

Below is the entry in the old Hampton town record books [Book 2, pg 255], which states:
Susanna ye wife of Robert
Smith slaine with thunder: 12: 4 mo 1680
["4 mo" was the month of June in the Quaker calendar - they replaced, with numbers, the months and days of week that were named after pagan gods]

Additional Information:
- On the following blog page about Exeter is an image of the Exeter Combination of 1639. On the bottom right corner is the signature of Robert Smith, said to be the above person.
exeterhistory.blogspot.com/2011/08/whats-in-name.html
- Preliminary Study of Robert Smith (1611-1706) of Exeter & Hampton, New Hampshire, published in 1979

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5/3/2015

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My Great-Grandfather, WILLIAM HORACE SMITH, who was killed in a workplace accident on 7 May 1932.

Born in England on 5 Nov 1879 (according to his World War I Draft Registration), he may have immigrated here in 1891 [1930 census]. That same census says he was naturalized, but this was crossed out, and his parents were listed as born in Georgia, US, so there may be problems with the data on that page.

Photo Courtesy of Portsmouth Public Library, Portsmouth, NH. http://portsmouthexhibits.org (#117 is on right side)

#117-119 Maplewood (diagonally across from cemetery), from 1920 Portsmouth, NH Sanborn Insurance Map

In the 1916 and 1918 Portsmouth, NH Street Directories, William was boarding at 117 Maplewood Ave, employed as a carpenter. That same year, he filled out a draft registration card. On it, he indicated he was a chauffeur for August Hett (who also lived on Maplewood and had a business on Bridge St). When he married in 1921, William was still working as a chauffeur, though 1920 street directory shows him as a carpenter. He may have been doing both. Note: in this time frame, there were 4 William H Smith's in Portsmouth. Luckily, William's draft card had his address on it, so I could match him with the listings in the city directories. He was not found in the 1920 census.

Of interest on the above draft card is his nearest relative, Frederick Smith of the US Army. Perhaps he was a brother of William. These names are so common, it could be some time (if at all) to find a connection between the two men. There was a Frederick who was stationed at Fort Constitution in 1912, and a a person of that name lived in Portsmouth in 1918 and 1920, before moving to California.

249 Maplewood Ave - house no longer there

250 Clinton - bldg still stands today

William is not listed in the 1923 or 1925 directories for Portsmouth, but is back for 1926, now living at 249 Maplewood Ave. He lived here until 1929, the year his wife Annie was struck and killed by an auto (see http://www.mynewenglandancestors.com/blog/in-memory-of). He remarried in April 1929 to Mattie Frisbee and, in November of that year, he bought a house at 250 Clinton Street from Annie Hett. Here he lived until 1932.

On 7 May 1932, while working at the Portsmouth Gas Company plant, he fell from the runway, and fractured his skull. He would die at the hospital two hours later. His death record lists his burial place as the Sagamore Cemetery in Portsmouth, but his grave is not marked by a stone. I have yet to find the location of the plot. He left a widow and four children (3 of them from his first wife), who went to live in other households when their Clinton Street home for foreclosed on and sold off at auction in Nov '32.

From the Portsmouth Herald, 5/9/1932

(above) The Portsmouth Gas Company (a 1921 photo, when the Memorial Bridge was being constructed beside it) - from http://www.portsmouthathenaeum.org/

from the Boston Herald, 5/8/1932 (middle initial wrong)

William's death notice (left) mentions that he was a member of the Franklin Pierce V.F.A. (Volunteer Firemen Association). I am still looking through Portsmouth annual reports to see if he did serve as a fireman in this city, or maybe this was before he moved here.

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