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Racheal M Smith, the daughter of Isaac J Smith & 2nd wife, Mary, married George A Arnold, the son of Alvin Arnold & Mary Mulken; they 1 daughter Racheal Mary.
Racheal M Smith died in 1868. George remarried and he died in 1917.
The Saratogian, Sat, 19 May 1917
George Arnold, a lifelong resident of the Town of Saratoga, died at his residence about one mile east of Cedar Bluff at 630 o'clock yesterday morning aged seventy-seven years. He is survived by his widow, and one daughter, Mrs Rachael M Hazard; also one brother, Charles E Arnold of this city; two grandchildren, Mrs Stanley Searing of Cleveland, O., and Mrs Fred Kmen, Jr of Saratoga, also one great grandson. The funeral will be held Monday morning at 1030 o'clock at the home, the Rev Leon R Randall of Ketchum's Corners officiating. Burial will be made in Hudson View Cemetery, Mechanicville.
Their daughter Racheal Mary Arnold married twice. She first married Benjamin Salters Jr.
At first I thought he died before she remarried in 1910 and no matter how much I dug, I couldn't find anything. Then in revisiting this pair, I stumbled across an ancestry tree that suggested he died in 1914 in Albany simply because the father of that Benj was Benj. I worked through every combination but no matter what I found, the evidence did not support this and add to that that a death entry for Onenta kept appearing but I couldn't prove that either...........UNTIL.....
The 1905 directory & census has Racheal listed without her husband - did they divorce or did he abandon her? Along with his obituary, there were several adverts posted in the all the local papers trying to locate his family, one that mentioned he had a daughter.
Ballston Spa Daily Journal, 21 Nov 1913
A News despatch from Oneonta states that Benjamin Salters died suddenly yesterday morning in that city of acute indigestion, aged 60 years. The despatch indicates that the whereabouts of his relatives is not known. He is supposed to be the Benjamin Salters who resided here several years ago, a one-armed man. He married a Miss Arnold of this village and for some time resided on the Arnold farm in Malta.
Racheal had moved on by this time. She had remarried a fella named Nicholas John Hazard in 1910 at Vancouver, BC. He was the son of John D Hazard & Rose M Michaels - they divorced around 1924.
While Racheal & Nicholas had no children, she did have 2 girls with Benjamin - Mary & Margaret.
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The Saratogian, Thurs, 4 Jan 1940
Mrs R N Salters died at the Grand View Sanitarium, Greenfield, this afternoon. Mrs Salters had been ill four years. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs Fred Kmen, 76 Caroline St, and Mrs Stanley Searing, East Chicago, ILL. Mrs Salters was born in Halfmoon, April 16, 1868. Private funeral services will be conducted at the Kark Funeral Home Friday. The Rev I g Roulilard will officiate. Burial will be in Hudson View Cemetery, Mechanicville. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight from 8:30 until 10.
Great work Christine! Hope you're well.
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