Smith Resources
Emma (Eliza) Smith death certificate
Jessie Seymour Smith death certificate
Surrogate's Court, Ontario County petition of Ernest R. Baker in the estate of Jessie S. Hush, deceased.
Little Church Cemetery, Seneca, NY through Rootsweb at https://sites.rootsweb.com/%7Enyontari/littlechurchcem.htm
Ontario County Records and Archives Center at raims.com
The Bradford Era, Bradford PA Monday June 22 1891,
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Mrs. Wealthy Smith, aged 85 years, mother of Mrs. Ralph Baker, of Olean, N.Y.,
and Mrs. Jessie Seymour of Kendall, Pa., died Sunday evening, June 14, 1891 at 7
o'clock, after a lingering illness. The deceased was a most estimable Christian
lady and had a host of friends among young and old who will miss "Grandma
Smith," as she was lovingly called. She was born in Rochester, Genesee county,
N.Y., Dec. 10, 1805. Her ancestry were of revolutionary repute and she was of
French and Scotch extraction. She was a granddaughter of Maj. Gen. John Cowden,
who came from Edinburgh, Scotland, and served as an officer under Gen. Geo.
Washington in the revolutionary war. As Grandma often related, "he built the
first brick house at Cambridge, Mass, which for years was called the checkered
house." Her grandmother, Lydia Le Darte, was a French woman. Her father was Seth
Johnson, of Scotch extraction, and her mother Olive Cowden. Her father was a
soldier in the war of 1812. Wealthy Johnson was bereft of her moth at the age of
4 years, at 12 of both parents. She lived with her guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Eddy,
till at the youthful age of 16 she became the wife of Orrin Smith, of Vermont, a
young man of English parentage.
Before the age of 50 she was left a widow with eight children to rear, educate
and care for, the youngest a small babe. This she did carefully and faithfully.
All lived to maturity, but have since, with the exception of three, proceeded
her to the "silent shore." The living are Mrs. Ralph Baker, of Olean, N.Y., Mr.
A.W. Smith, a brother who has been an invalid with consumption for years, and
Mrs. Seymour, her youngest daughter, who has cared for her many years. when the
summons came her pastor, physician and many other kind friends were in
attendance at her death-bed and gave her timely aid and sympathy to the faithful
one who had followed as a servant her Master for over 71 years. Word was sent to
the absent daughter to come and at about the hour that the few faithful ones of
her church associates were wont to depart from the little "cottage prayer
meetings" which they had held for over two years at her residence (for "Grandma"
who was too feeble to attend divine worship often), the messengers came and bore
the loving spirit to the heavenly home of which she wrote, sang and talked so
much, and the beloved one was at rest "in Jesus."