Clarence Willard Smith

Notes:

Birth: Smith family bible Death: death certificate

Clarence married Laura Ruth Wilde on 4 Sep 1926 in Philadelphia, PA. Laura was born on 28 Jan 1895 in Phila., Phila., PA; died on 10 Jan 1984 in Decatur, DeKalb, GA; was buried in Decatur, DeKalb, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living

Notes:

Program from his funeral is in the cupboard. He died when I was 8, so I don't remember much about him except sitting at the head of the table at dinner (our lunch time) and supper. He was completely bald.

James Smith and Willard Smith came to Berwick, March 15, 1887 (obit)

Birth: Smith family bible; death cert. says birth June 19, 1865.

Death: Obituary; Smith family bible; death certificate in my file. He died of bladder cancer.

Marriage: Wedding invitation, my files

Willard Smith's obit. from the Berwick Enterprise, Feb. 28, 1938

DEATH COMES TO WILLARD SMITH Former Merchant and Widely Known Man Dies at Age of 72 Years. - Ill since December.

Willard Smith, former business man and member of the firm of Smith Brothers, for thirty years a Berwick landmark, died yesterday afternoon at 5:15 at his home at 215 West Second street. Mr. Smith had been ill since early in December and a
complication of diseases was given as the cause of death. His age was 72 years, eight months and eight days. Mr. Smith, a son of Isaac Snover Smith and Elizabeth Beatty Smith, was born at Stephensburg, New Jersey. After completing school there,
he served as a clerk in Hackettstown, N.J., and then went with his brother, James Smith, who was conducting a store at Stephensburg, N.J. After three years, the store was sold and James Smith and Willard Smith came to Berwick, March 15, 1887,
Willard Smith taking a third interest of the firm of Smith Brothers. The store was located for years in the Jackson block at the present location of Rea and Derick. For the past sixteen years, and until his recent illness, Mr. Smith had been in
the employ of the Berwick Store Company. Mr. Smith was one of the few remaining charter members of Susquehanna Commandery No. 18 Knights of Malta, and was for forty years a member of Knapp Lodge No. 462, Free and Accepted Mason, also the
kindred Masonic bodies Scottish Rite, 32nd degree at Bloomsburg. He was a descendant by both parents of early Presbyterian settlers in northern New Jersey. He became a member of the church in early life and transferred his membership to First
Presbyterian church when he came to Berwick, and was a faithful and consistent member. He served for a number of years on the board of trustees of the church. Surviving are his wife, one son, Clarence Willard Smith, of Lansdowne, near
Philadelphia, where for some years he has filled a responsible position with the firm of Bailey, Banks and Biddle of Philadelphia, a brother, James E. Smith, of West Front street, and the following sisters, Miss Flora Smith, of Stephensburg,
N.J., Mrs. Bertha Evans, of Bloomfield, N.J., and Mrs. John Baldwin, of Beattystown, N.J., and one grand child, Louise Ann Smith. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from the Seriff Funeral Home on West Second
street, with Dr. D. M. Harrison, pastor of the Presbyterian church, officiating. Interment will be in Pine Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tomorrow night from 7 to 9 p.m.

(I think it is interesting that his wife's name is not mentioned.)

Willard married Louise Petty on 10 Jun 1896 in Berwick. Louise was born on 11 Aug 1872 in Berwick, Columbia, PA; died on 28 Aug 1947 in Berwick, Columbia, PA; was buried on 30 Aug 1947 in Pine Grov, Berwick, Columbia, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: Smith family bible

Death: Smith family bible; death certificate in my file. She died of a stroke.

BURIAL: Info from death certificate

Notes:

ISAAC SNOVER SMITH (1835-1919) a cabinet maker and undertaker, retired about age 55. He came to Pleasant Grove, N.J. to help furnish the new Presbyterian Church on Scheeley's Mountain and there met and married Ann Elizabeth Beatty, only child
of James Beatty, Jr. and Sarah Fritts, his first wife. They lived at Pleasant Grove until after their first son, James Edgar Smith (1859-1952) was born when they moved two miles to Stephensburg, N.J. and spent the remainder of their days
there. Other children on this marriage were: Flora who never married; Willard (1865-1938) who married Louise Petty; Bertha who married Floyd Evans; and Kate who married John Park Baldwin. Isaac Snover Smith became an elder of the Presbyterian
Church at Pleasant Grove, where he is buried in a plot adjacent to that of his father-in-law, and after retirement until his death conducted Sunday School afternoons and evening services (Christian Endeavor) each sabbath and Prayer Meeting on
Wednesday evenings in the one-room schoolhouse at Stephensburg. (Roscoe Smith notes, my files)

Marriage date from Pat Lemoine - from Warren Co. records.

Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher - Has name as Isaac L. Smith, occupation, undertaker.

BIRTH: Place of birth from Willard Smith's death certificate. I don't know where Kalarama is and have sent for his death cert.

BIRTH: Date of birth from death cert.

DEATH: Date of death from death cert. Age 83 yrs., 11 mos., 15 days. Place of death: Washington, Morris Co. Cause of death diabetes mellitis. Place of burial and date.Flora Smith signed certificate which is in my file.

Isaac married Anne Elizabeth Beatty on 26 Oct 1858 in Presby. church, Pleasant Grove, Morris, NJ. Anne was born in 1834 in Stephensburg, Morris, NJ; died in 1927; was buried in Pleasant Grove, Morris, NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The name is spelled Beaty in "Copied from notes of James Edgar Smith" in my possession

BIRTH: Place of birth from Willard Smith's death certificate in his file.

Notes:

The Kinney family originated in Holland and first settled near Stroudsburg, Pa. We presently know nothing of them. John W. and Catherine Smith had one son, Isaac Snover Smith (1835-1919) and three daughters: Sarah; Catherine (Mrs. John Kist
- no issue); and Rachael. Sarah and Rachael did not marry. John W. was injured early in his career as a millwright and lived quietly in Kalarama thereafter. (Roscoe Smith notes) (I bet his middle name was Wintermute. LP)



Birth and christening dates from Stillwater Presbyterian Church Records in Genealogy Magazine of New Jersey, Vol. 42, No. 1, Whole No. 160. Copy sent to Louise SP by Mary Miller in La.

John married Catharine Ann Kinney. Catharine (daughter of Frederick M. Kinney and Margaret "Peggy"(Anne) Snover) was born on 21 Jun 1806 in Sussex County, NJ; died on 8 Nov 1899; was buried in Knowlton Presbyterian Churchyard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NJGM v.51, #1, Jan 1976, Knowlton Presbyterian Churchyard - "John W. Smith "father" b. 1803, d. (27 Sep) 1862, (aged 59.4.12); wife Catharine A., b. 1806, d. (8 Nov.) 1889, (aged 83.4.17); dau. Sarah M. 1833-1909; dau. Rachel M., 1839-1922.
There is a new stone for the parents with their old stones still standing; additional data from old stones"

IGI has her as Caty Ann b. ca 1808