John W. Smith

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.

Family/Spouse: 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]

Family/Spouse: James Kinney. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Kist. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

Information from Robert Moore, Canada: m. 11 June 1832 ?? to John F. Shipman (differs from Wintermute book)



NJGM v.51, #1, Jan 1976, Knowlton Prebyterian 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"

Rachel married John F. Shipman on 11 Jun 1832. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth & Death: Roscoe Smith notes (his son). He attended the local Stephensburg school and then a business school at Easton, Pa. He was then employed by his uncle, Daniel Vanatta, husband of Letitia (Letty) Beatty, later becoming a partner. In
1887 James E. Smith sold the Stephensburg business to William Miller and he and his brother Willard (my grandfather) purchased the general store business of Freas Brothers in the Jackson Building on the northwest corner of Front and Market
Streets in Berwick, Pa., which they together operated as Smith Brothers for the next thirty years. (See photo on den wall.) Two additional sons were born to James and Hattie; James Howard (19 May 1987) who married Gertrude Blunt; and Arthur
Matthias (7 April 1893) who married Meta Shobert. Willard married Louise Petty, sister of Hattie, and to them was born one son, Clarence Willard who married Laura Wilde.

James Edgar Smith was a very active person, a devout member of the First Presbyterian Church, Berwick, a trustee at time of building a new church at Second and Vine Streets, later sold to the Reformed Congregation when the Market Street church
was built, shortly thereafter becoming a lifetime elder and in 1943 received a testimonial spread on the Minutes of the Session for having served continuously as such for fifty years. At the time of his death he was the oldest living Past
Master of Knapp Lodge No. 462, F. & A.M. which he had also served for more than twenty years as Secretary. At the time of his death he was Senior Vice President and only surviving member of the first board of directors of the Berwick Bank. He
was also at that time senior member of the board of directors of the Berwick Building & Loan Association, and also of the Pine Grove Cemetery Association. He served on Berwick Borough Council and for many years was President of Berwick Board
of School Directors. He owned and/or controlled, not as an agent nor ever too many at one time, a number of rental properties, helped to organize and for a period operated the Berwick Shirt Manufacturing Company, and later the Berwick Match
Company. He also had a controlling interest in the Valley Hard Vein (roofing) Slate Company with quarry at Edlemans, Pa. which ceased operation at time of World War I as a non-essential industry and never again successfully operated on account
of higher freight rates and the development of less expensive light weight roofing. He was ambitious and active until death; collapsed while mowing the lawn the afternoon of the day before his end. (Age 93)

James married Hattie Petty on 1 Jan 1884 in Briar Creek Twp, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

FLORA SMITH never married. In her younger days she assisted her brothers in the operation of a general store in Berwick, Pa. (See photo on wall in den.) Before the death of her father she returned home to help care for him and to assist in
the raising of her sister Bertha's two daughters. After the death of her mother she lived with her niece, Elizabeth Evans Latham, to assist in the care of her sister Bertha who died first and to help raise Kathy, daughter of Marie Evans Finn.
Flora and Bertha are buried in Hackettstown, N.J. cemetery. Flora lived with James and Hattie many years and had a tremendous influence in the upbringing of Roscoe, Howard and Arthur, all to the good. (Roscoe Smith notes)

BIRTH: Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher - from newspaper article about her.

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: Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher

DEATH: Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher

Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher - M. 6 Sep 1904, in Pleasant Grove Presb. Ch., Floyd Wilson Evans. Married by Rev. J. W. Lowden of Bloomfield, NJ. Floyd was a widower of NYC, son of W. H. and Jane DeWitt Evans. Ch. Elizabeth, m.
Mr. Latham; Marie Evans (name from 78th Birthday Article for Aunt Flora, Aug. 30, 1939).

Family/Spouse: Floyd Evans. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher

BURIAL: Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher

DEATH: Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher

Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher - M. 1897, John P. Baldwin, b. Dec 1877, (son of Jacob C. Baldwin and Rachel A. Park), he d. 1966, buried Hackettstown Union Cem. Children: "Female" Baldwom b. 24 Jul 1898, Stephensburg, Was.
Twp., Morris, NJ.; Lester S. Baldwin b. 1898, m. Edna Hazen, d. 1981, bur. Hackettstown Union Cem., Lester d. 1950, bur. same.

Family/Spouse: John Baldwin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Roscoe Smith notes

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Roscoe Smith notes

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Roscoe Smith Notes

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Birth: Smith family bible Death: Smith family bible

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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]