Robert F. Smith and Lucy M. Hough

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Husband Robert F. Smith ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 10 Jun 1869 - Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: Joseph Smith (1837-Aft 1906) 1 4
         Mother: Debbie A. Francis (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 21 Oct or 25 Oct 1894 2 3

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Wife Lucy M. Hough ^{2 3 5}

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           Born: 12 Sep 1871 3
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         Father: Jacob R. Hough (1845-1922) 3 6
         Mother: Susan Hough (1846-1922) 3 6

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Children

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1 F Sue Frances Smith ^{2 3}

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           Born: 13 Dec 1895 3
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2 F Ora Dale Smith ^{2 3}

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           Born: 4 Sep 1897 3
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3 M Robert H. Smith ^{2 3}

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           Born: 1899 3
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4 M Thomas Harlow Smith ²

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General Notes: Husband - Robert F. Smith

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He was born on the old family estate in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He received his education at the local public schools, and later took a commercial course in Scio College, Scio, Ohio, and subsequently became interested in the milling business at Smithton. In this place there had been erected by Jacob R. Hough, in the year 1896, a frame flour and feed mill and this property was purchased from him in the year 1900 by David H. Smith and Robert F. Smith, and in the year 1911 the latter became sole owner, his partner, David H. Smith, having gone to California, where his death occurred. In the mill there was a fifty-barrel roller process with a capacity of five hundred bushels. Winter wheat was used for the making of flour there and there was turned out the famous Surprise brand of flour. The mill represented an investment of some fifty thousand dollars.
Mr. Smith was assistant postmaster of Smithton, under William McCune, who succeeded his father, Joseph Smith, as postmaster.
Mr. Smith was a prominent figure in the social and fraternal life of the community, and was a particularly active figure in the Masonic order, in which he reached the thirty-second degree of Free Masonry. He was affiliated with all the Masonic bodies in that region, including Lodge. No. 252, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Fayette City; Uniontown Lodge of Perfection, and Pittsburgh Consistory.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 282.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 320.

3 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer (Milton, NJ: The Evergreen News, 1903), Pg 87.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 319.

5 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 260.

6 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 259.