Hezekiah Smith

The Smith & Rogers families intertwine with our family a lot. Here's another from way, way, way back and it will lead to the subject of the blog.

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Hannah Rogers was the daughter of Hezekiah Rogers Jr & Hannah Vincent. One of 6 children, she was born around 1769 at Beekman, NY and her husband's name was found in her father's will.

She married Jacob Smith, the son of John Smith & Margaret Wiltsie out of Rumbout, NY and they had 3 children - Hezekiah, Stephen R & Isaac J.  

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Stephen R Smith married twice. First to Ruth Emma Howland, the daughter of Elisha Howland & Rhoda Powell and they had 5 children - Hannah, Jane B, Hezekiah, Caroline & a baby boy. 

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Second, he married Abigail Filkin, the daughter of Cornelius Filkin & Charity Smith and they had 3 children - Lewis, Laban & George. 

And here we are Hezekiah Smith of 1835-1912. 

A farmer like his father, he too married twice - first, the mother of his children was a girl named Catharine. Then he married Nancy May Thorn, the daughter of Joseph J Thorn & Elizabeth Collins. Of his children, they were Byron, Birdie, Charles, Homer, Ella & Elmer.

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Geneva Daily Times, Thurs, 10 Oct 1912

Death of Hezekiah Smith

Waterloo, Oct 10 - Hezekiah Smith, a retired farmer and one of the most highly esteemed residents of Junius, died at his late home there last night, aged 76 years. The cause of death was nephritis. Mr Smith was a native of Half Moon, Saratoga County, but had resided for more than a half century in Junius. He is survived by four sons, Byron, Charles, Homer and Elmer Smith, all of Junius, a daughter, Mrs Ella Hamilton, of East Rochester, and a granddaughter, Mrs George Stephens, also of East Rochester. The funeral will be held from the home of Charles Smith, Saturday afternoon at two o'clock, the Rev T S Day, pastor of the Junius Presbyterian Church, of which the deceased was a member, officiating. Burial will be in the Southwick Cemetery.

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Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Wed, 18 Feb 1891
Mrs Nancy Smith, wife of Hezekiah Smith, of Junius, died yesterday morning of malarial fever.

Hezekiah & Catharine's sons Homer & Elmer never married.  Homer tried to kill himself when he was 21 but he lived until he was 75 years old!

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Seneca County News, 2 Dec 1943
Homer Smith, 75, lifelong resident of Junius, north of Waterloo, died tuesday night, November 23, in the home of his brother, Charles Smith, after a long illness. Surviving besides his brother is a niece, Mrs George W Stevens of Rochester. Private funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon in the Charles Smith home by Rev Herbert w Lamb, Jr, rector of St Paul's Episcopal Church, with burial in Southwick Cemetery, Junius.

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Rochester Times Union, Wed, 25 Sep 1935
Waterloo - Elmer Smith, 61, town of Junius, died here yesterday, Sept 24, 1935.  He is survived by three brothers, Byron and Charles Smith, Junius, Homer Smith, South Lyons, and a sister, Mrs Ella Hamilton, East Rochester.  Funeral services will be at 11 am tomorrow in [46] West Main Street, with burial in Southwick Cemetery, Junius.