Capt. Raphael C. Smead and Sarah M. Radcliffe

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Husband Capt. Raphael C. Smead ¹

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           Died: 1848 2
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         Father: Selah Smead (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Cummings (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 1829 2

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Wife Sarah M. Radcliffe ¹

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           Died: Aft 1886
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         Father: John Radcliffe (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Jane Van Ness (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M Capt. John R. Smead ³

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           Died: 30 Aug 1862 - ? Prince William Co, VA 4
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         Spouse: Annie B. Ege (      -      ) 4

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2 F Elizabeth C. [1] Smead ⁴

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           Died: in infancy
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Elizabeth C. [2] Smead ⁴

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4 F Jane Van Ness "Jennie" Smead ^{5 6 7}

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           Born:  - New York City, NY
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         Spouse: John Hays (      -Aft 1886) 5 7
           Marr: 8 Aug 1865 3

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5 M Raphael C. Smead ⁴

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           Died: 25 May 1869 4
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 M Alexander D. Bache Smead ²

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           Born: 24 Mar 1848 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 2
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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Raphael C. Smead

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He was a graduate of West Point, and captain in the Mexican war. He died of yellow fever while on his way home at the close of the war.

Fourth United States Artillery.
His parents removed to Genesee County, New York, and from there he was sent to the West Point Military Academy in 1821, graduating four years later. He passed unhurt through the Florida and the Mexican wars, but had barely reached American soil, on his return from the latter, when he fell a victim to yellow fever contracted at Vera Cruz. Having, in 1847, been sent north for a short time to Carlisle Barracks to recruit additional men for his regiment, he had left his wife and children in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when he himself rejoined Gen. Scott's army. Her husband's sudden death, in 1848, left Mrs. Smead among comparative strangers and in very straightened circumstances. But adversity could not overcome her energetic nature. Deciding to make Carlisle her home, she at once took up her increased burden of responsibility, and carried it to the end without flinching.

1 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 378, 395.

2 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 395.

3 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 378.

4 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 396.

5 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 150.

6 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 378, 396.

7 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 644, 662.