Philip Smith and Elenor Fismire

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Husband Philip Smith ¹

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           Born: Abt 1754
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           Died: 23 Jun 1842 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: Thomas Smith (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 12 Sep 1782 2

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Wife Elenor Fismire ¹

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           Born: 11 Sep 1765 - Germantown, near Philadelphia, PA 2
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           Died: 26 Sep 1836 2
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         Father: Christian Fismire (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Martha [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M Robert McFarland Smith ^{1 3}

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           Born: 24 Jul 1804 - near Elizabeth, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: 27 Jan 1881 2
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         Spouse: Caroline Black (Abt 1810-1885) 2 4
           Marr: 12 Aug 1828 2

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General Notes: Husband - Philip Smith

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In 1783 or 1785, he and his wife came hunting for themselves a home in the then western wilderness. After a long and toilsome journey they reached Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, then only a settlement with three or four dwellings, the principal one, that of Col. Stephen Bayard, being built of logs. Within less than a mile the newcomer built his first home. It was a one-room log cabin on the hill plantation, called "Salisbery," which comprised three hundred acres bought from Joseph Carle in 1790. In 1798 he bought from Thomas Liming the plantation of 160¼ acres called Newry, nearer the Monongahela river. On this he built his house, containing one large room, second story, a hall and stone kitchen, a porch length of the front, a large barn and other outbuildings for a farmer's use. These buildings were made of hewn logs. A few years afterward he weather-boarded his house, and it is said to have been the first weather-boarded house west of the Alleghany mountains. Often while engaged in this work he was obliged to take up the old musket which he had carried at Valley Forge and Trenton, in order to repel the attacks of Indians. A few years after his house was finished the first public worship ever held in that region was conducted there; and there, in the providence of God, was first organized the Old Stone M. E. Church of Elizabeth, which by his blessing has been the means of converting multitudes, who with Philip Smith have long since passed away. This church was dedicated to the worship of God in 1832, the stone to build the same having been donated by Philip Smith and taken from his old homestead.

He was owner of large tracts of land, which he sold and gave to his children.
The children settled in the west and south, until almost every state in the Union could furnish a relative.

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General Notes: Wife - Elenor Fismire

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Her grandparents were Quakers, who came from Wales in 1682, being among the number of about two thousand colonists who founded Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 775.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 776.

3 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 154.

4 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 151.