Best Little Family

Me and my weakness for small families - it's all about remembering they were here....

courtesy of Alice - Find A Grave

John K Smith was the son of Isaac J Smith & his second wife Mary. Like his father, he was a farmer and he married a girl named Deborah D Visscher, the daughter of Nanning Vischer & Phebe Ketcham. They had one daughter, Bertha E.

Troy Daily Times, Sat, 18 Mar 1899
John K Smith, whose illness was mentioned in last night's Times, died at 730 o'clock last night. Mr Smith was a respected resident of the town of Halfmoon.  He leaves one daughter, Mrs Lewis Best. He was about fifty years old.

Bertha E Smith married Lewis Howard Best, the son of Tristram Coffin Best & Harriet Lamb. 

Bertha & Lewis had one daughter, Hazel Deborah Best who married a jeweler named Arthur Robert Mosier, the son of George W Mosier & Barbara Mischler. They had no children and the line ends here.

The Saratogian, Mon, 25 Apr 1966
Best - Mechanicville - Mrs Louis H Best, 92, many years a resident on South Second Street, Mechanicville, died Sunday evening April 24, 1966 at Cramer House, Saratoga, following a long illness. She was the oldest member of the First Methodist church of Mechanicville, widow of Louis H Best, daughter of the late John K and Deborah Vischer Smith. Survived by a daughter Mrs Arthur R Mosier, Pruyn Hill, Mechanicville, a cousin, Willard Lasher, Round Lake. Funeral Wednesday 10 am from Dunn Funeral Home, 319 Park Avenue, Mechanicville with the Rev Frank J Reid, pastor of First Methodist Church officiating. Interment in Hudson View Cemetery. Funeral home open Tuesday 7-9 pm. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Association of the blind or the Program of progress of the First Methodist Church.

courtesy of Rocky Higginbotham - Find A Grave

The Saratogian, Wed, 17 Apr 1929
Mechanicville, April 17 - (Special) - Lewis Howard Best, a highly respected resident, died yesterday afternoon at his home on Pruyn's Hill after an illness of several months. Mr Best was born in the town of Halfmoon on April 3, 1864, the son of Triftram C and Harriet Lamb Best. He always resided in the town of Halfmoon. Mr Baker, at one time owned a farm on the Mechanicville-Clifton park road, but for a number of years had been retired. At the time of his death he was a member of the official board of the Methodist Episcopal Church and president of the Cemetery Association. Mr Best was formerly a director of the Cemetery Association. For the past 35 years he has been a member of Halfmoon Lodge, of Odd Fellows. The Best family were pioneers of this village. An uncle of the late Mr Best at one time owned a farm west of the old canal which now takes in the territory known as East and West Streets where the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company now stands was a large orchard, part of the Best farm. Mr Best is survived by his wife, Bertha E; a daughter, Hazel, wife of Arthur Mosier of North Side, Cohoes; one brother, G F Best of Round Lake and a niece, Blanch E of Round Lake. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 230 o'clock at the resident on Pruyn's Hill. The Rev E J Cummings will officiate. Friends are asked to omit flowers. Burial will be made in Hudson View Cemetery.