Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Henry Hartman Smith and Celia Jane Smith




Husband Henry Hartman Smith 1

           Born: 19 Dec 1848 - Fairfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: Robert Smith (Abt 1819-1876) 1
         Mother: Susan Hartman (1826-1873) 1


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Wife Celia Jane Smith 2

           Born: 10 May 1853 - Ligonier Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Father: Henry Smith (Abt 1827-1859) 3
         Mother: Mary (Marie) Boyd (1830-1906) 4




Children

• They had no children of their own.


1 M Samuel Alvin Work 2 5

           Born: 30 Jul 1877 2 5
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         Status: Foster Child
        Child-Par.Rel.: Father: Foster, Mother: Foster
         Spouse: Ellen Adams (      -      ) 2



General Notes: Husband - Henry Hartman Smith


He received his education in the Fort Palmer School. Until the age of twenty-five, when he married, he assisted his father on the farm, and upon the death of his father became by purchase the owner of the James Wylie farm, which his father had bought during his latter years. It comprised one hundred and sixty-seven acres, only about one-half of which were then cleared. Mr. Smith's farming was of a general character. He put up an entire set of new buildings, house, barn and others, and made a number of other improvements. In May, 1914, he sold to Rush Wineland the entire farm with the exception of thirty-eight acres, and in the spring of 1917 he disposed of the remainder to A. K. Rennick, who became a coal operator on the tract. Mr. Smith built a residence on North Market street in 1906.
Reared in accordance with Republican traditions, Mr. Smith early identified himself with that party, but for many years voted the Prohibition ticket. His religious belief was that of the United Presbyterians and he was formerly a member of the Fairfield church, but later associated with that of Ligonier. For many years he was superintendent of the Sunday school and for an even longer period a teacher in it.


General Notes: Wife - Celia Jane Smith


She was educated in local schools and at the Ligonier Academy, afterward studying for one term at the Millersville Normal School. After teaching for two years in the schools of Ligonier township, she became the wife of Henry Hartman Smith. She was a member of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Ligonier United Presbyterian Church and of the Foreign and Home Missionary Society. For forty-five years or more she was a teacher in the primary department of the Sunday school, and in the dark days of the first world war she took a helpful interest in the work of the Red Cross.

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Sources


1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1018.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1019.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1020.

4 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 80.

5 M. T. Steele & Edith Work, The Work Family (Marion Center, PA: Privately published, 1894), Pg 22.


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