Jesse P. Smith and Sarah Robinson

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Husband Jesse P. Smith ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: Jesse R. Smith 4
           Born: 9 Mar 1812 - Hopewell Twp, Huntingdon Co, PA 1 2 3 4
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           Died: Aft 1897
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         Father: [Unk] Smith (      -      )
         Mother: Jane Parnell (      -      ) 2 4

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         Father: George Smith (      -1839) 1 5
         Mother: Mary Maninee (      -1855) 1

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       Marriage: 1844 6

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   Other Spouse: Susan Gherrett (1820-1843) 6 - 16 Jan 1840 - Cass Twp, Huntingdon Co, PA 6

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Wife Sarah Robinson ^{2 3 4 6}

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           Born: 28 Aug 1820 - Tod Twp, Huntingdon Co, PA 6
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         Father: Vincent Robinson (      -      ) 2 3 4 6
         Mother: Susan Hess (      -      ) 2 3 4 6

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Children

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1 M Samuel H. Smith ^{2 4 6}

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2 F Mary S. Smith ^{2 4 6}

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         Spouse: Solomon Cook (      -      ) 2 4 6

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3 M Jesse R. Smith ^{7 8 9}

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           Born: 29 Mar 1850 - Huntingdon Co, PA 2 9
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           Died: 20 Dec 1929 - Scottdale, East Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Sarah Clara Clifford (      -      ) 3 4 7 8
           Marr: 2 Oct 1884 - near Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 4

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4 F Eliza Jane Smith ^{2 4 6}

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5 M Isaac Newton Smith ^{2 4 6}

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General Notes: Husband - Jesse P. Smith

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There are discrepencies in different sources regarding this person's parentage. Hence two sets of parents are given here. The compiler of this web-site suspects that certain sources have compressed two generations into one and confused this man's father and grandfather.

He was a soldier in the Civil war in the Union army under General George B. McClellan. He followed farming for a livelihood. In religion he was identified with the Methodist Protestant church, and was a Republican in his political affiliations.

He enjoyed no more advantages in the way of education than were afforded by the log school houses of that early day, attending the Stever school, in Cass township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. This school he attended during only a month or two of each year. When the time for this limited school training had passed, he began working on his father's farm, and continued in the same place and the same employment until he was forty years old. He then rented a farm in Cass township; after remaining upon it one year, he purchased, cleared and improved 100 acres in Tod township, a dwelling and barn being among the improvements. On this place he remained until 1884, and then went to reside on a small farm near Cook's mill.
At fifty years of age, Mr. Smith enlisted for the defense of the Union against rebellion, in Company I, Twelfth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Taggart and Capt. James Baker; he served eight months. Mr. Smith participated in the famous "Seven Days' Fight." During a large part of his term of enlistment, he was on guard duty, which so seriously affected his health that he suffered for many years from the consequences. He was for about two months in the hospital at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. He was discharged at Fortress Monroe, in November, 1862.
"Notwithstanding the hardships he then underwent, and their bad effects on his physical condition, Mr. Smith, when an octogenarian, would have willingly gone again, if it were necessary, to fight in his country's cause."
He was a Republican. He served his township two years as supervisor. He and his family were members of the Methodist Protestant church, in which he was an enthusiastic and persevering worker. He lent a hand in every department of service; was class-leader, Sunday-school superintendent and teacher, and steward of the church.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 290.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 91.

3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 156.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 103.

5 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 238.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 291.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 91, 247.

8 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 16.

9 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 103, 156.