Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Rev. Wesley Smith and [Unk] Ford




Husband Rev. Wesley Smith 1 2 3

           Born:  - near Belfast, Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Oct 1888 - Sharpsburg, Allegheny Co, PA 1 2 3
         Buried: 


         Father: Stewart Smith (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: 


       Marriage: 



Wife [Unk] Ford

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: Hugh Charles Ford (      -      ) 2 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Brown (      -      ) 2 3 4 5




Children
1 M Rev. Charles W. Smith, A.M., D.D., LL.D. 1 2 3 6

           Born: 30 Jan 1840 - Jefferson Twp, Fayette Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Caroline Lou "Carrie" Lindley (      -1907) 2 6 7
           Marr: 1864 or 1865 1 2 6 7



General Notes: Husband - Rev. Wesley Smith


For fifty-five years he was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Eastern Ohio, and a resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, for twenty-six years, until his death.

He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1833, and continued therein until his death. He was a man of marked intellectual attainments, and a champion in the defense of the Christian faith and the doctrines and polity of the Methodist Episcopal church.

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Sources


1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 316.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 844.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 437.

4 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 827.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 816.

6 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 406.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 438.


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