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Laura Ruth Wilde was born on 28 January 1895 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.¹ She and Clarence Willard Smith were married on 4 September 1926 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She died on 10 January 1984, at age 88, in Decatur, DeKalb, Georgia.¹ She was buried in Decatur, DeKalb, Georgia.

Birth: social security, insurance papers Death: death certificate.

Willard Smith was born on 9 June 1865 in Stephensburg, Morris, New Jersey. He and Louise Petty were married on 10 June 1896 in Berwick. He died on 27 February 1938, at age 72, in Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania. He was buried on 2 March 1938 in Pine Grove Cem., Berwick, PA.

Program from his funeral is in the cupboard. He died when I was 8, so I don't remember much about him except sitting at the head of the table at dinner (our lunch time) and supper. He was completely bald.
James Smith and Willard Smith came to Berwick, March 15, 1887 (obit)
Birth: Smith family bible; death cert. says birth June 19, 1865.
Death: Obituary; Smith family bible; death certificate in my file. He died of bladder cancer.
Marriage: Wedding invitation, my files
Willard Smith's obit. from the Berwick Enterprise, Feb. 28, 1938
DEATH COMES TO WILLARD SMITH Former Merchant and Widely Known Man Dies at Age of 72 Years. - Ill since December.
Willard Smith, former business man and member of the firm of Smith Brothers, for thirty years a Berwick landmark, died yesterday afternoon at 5:15 at his home at 215 West Second street. Mr. Smith had been ill since early in December and a complication of diseases was given as the cause of death. His age was 72 years, eight months and eight days. Mr. Smith, a son of Isaac Snover Smith and Elizabeth Beatty Smith, was born at Stephensburg, New Jersey. After completing school there, he served as a clerk in Hackettstown, N.J., and then went with his brother, James Smith, who was conducting a store at Stephensburg, N.J. After three years, the store was sold and James Smith and Willard Smith came to Berwick, March 15, 1887, Willard Smith taking a third interest of the firm of Smith Brothers. The store was located for years in the Jackson block at the present location of Rea and Derick. For the past sixteen years, and until his recent illness, Mr. Smith had been in the employ of the Berwick Store Company. Mr. Smith was one of the few remaining charter members of Susquehanna Commandery No. 18 Knights of Malta, and was for forty years a member of Knapp Lodge No. 462, Free and Accepted Mason, also the kindred Masonic bodies Scottish Rite, 32nd degree at Bloomsburg. He was a descendant by both parents of early Presbyterian settlers in northern New Jersey. He became a member of the church in early life and transferred his membership to First Presbyterian church when he came to Berwick, and was a faithful and consistent member. He served for a number of years on the board of trustees of the church. Surviving are his wife, one son, Clarence Willard Smith, of Lansdowne, near Philadelphia, where for some years he has filled a responsible position with the firm of Bailey, Banks and Biddle of Philadelphia, a brother, James E. Smith, of West Front street, and the following sisters, Miss Flora Smith, of Stephensburg, N.J., Mrs. Bertha Evans, of Bloomfield, N.J., and Mrs. John Baldwin, of Beattystown, N.J., and one grand child, Louise Ann Smith. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from the Seriff Funeral Home on West Second street, with Dr. D. M. Harrison, pastor of the Presbyterian church, officiating. Interment will be in Pine Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tomorrow night from 7 to 9 p.m.
(I think it is interesting that his wife's name is not mentioned.)

Louise Petty was born on 11 August 1872 in Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania. She and Willard Smith were married on 10 June 1896 in Berwick. She died on 28 August 1947, at age 75, in Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania. She was buried on 30 August 1947 in Pine Grov, Berwick, Columbia, PA.

Birth: Smith family bible
Death: Smith family bible; death certificate in my file. She died of a stroke.
BURIAL: Info from death certificate.

Isaac Snover Smith was born on 29 May 1835 in Kalarama, Pennsylvania. He and Anne Elizabeth Beatty were married on 26 October 1858 in Pleasant Grove, Morris, New Jersey, Presbyterian Church. He died on 14 May 1919, at age 83, in Pleasant Grove, Morris, New Jersey. He was buried on 17 May 1919 in Pleasant Grove, Morris, New Jersey.

ISAAC SNOVER SMITH (1835-1919) a cabinet maker and undertaker, retired about age 55. He came to Pleasant Grove, N.J. to help furnish the new Presbyterian Church on Scheeley's Mountain and there met and married Ann Elizabeth Beatty, only child of James Beatty, Jr. and Sarah Fritts, his first wife. They lived at Pleasant Grove until after their first son, James Edgar Smith (1859-1952) was born when they moved two miles to Stephensburg, N.J. and spent the remainder of their days there. Other children on this marriage were: Flora who never married; Willard (1865-1938) who married Louise Petty; Bertha who married Floyd Evans; and Kate who married John Park Baldwin. Isaac Snover Smith became an elder of the Presbyterian Church at Pleasant Grove, where he is buried in a plot adjacent to that of his father-in-law, and after retirement until his death conducted Sunday School afternoons and evening services (Christian Endeavor) each sabbath and Prayer Meeting on Wednesday evenings in the one-room schoolhouse at Stephensburg. (Roscoe Smith notes, my files)
Marriage date from Pat Lemoine - from Warren Co. records.
Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher - Has name as Isaac L. Smith, occupation, undertaker.
BIRTH: Place of birth from Willard Smith's death certificate. I don't know where Kalarama is and have sent for his death cert.
BIRTH: Date of birth from death cert.
DEATH: Date of death from death cert. Age 83 yrs., 11 mos., 15 days. Place of death: Washington, Morris Co. Cause of death diabetes mellitis. Place of burial and date.Flora Smith signed certificate which is in my file.

Anne Elizabeth Beatty was born on 27 March 1834 in Stephensburg, Morris, New Jersey. She and Isaac Snover Smith were married on 26 October 1858 in Pleasant Grove, Morris, New Jersey, Presbyterian Church. She died in 1927, at age ~93, in Pleasant Grove, Morris, New Jersey. She was buried in Pleasant Grove, Morris, New Jersey.

The name is spelled Beaty in "Copied from notes of James Edgar Smith" in my possession
BIRTH: Place of birth from Willard Smith's death certificate in his file.

Hattie L. Petty was born in October 1855 in Hanover, Luzerne, Pennsylvania.^1,2 She and James Edgar Smith were married on 1 January 1884 in Briar Creek Township, Pennsylvania.

Roscoe Smith notes: HATTIE PETTY came to Stephensburg with her grandmother to visit Mrs. Pell's sister Julia Lines Beatty, step-grandmother of James Edgar Smith. James and Hattie were married at her parents home in Briar Creek Township adjacent to Berwick, Pa. January 1, 1884. They lived in Stephensburg where their first son, Roscoe Lee Smith, born May 10, 1885, in the detached frame house on the store property which was across a commons north of the grist mill, all buildings still standing in May 1960.

James Edgar Smith was born on 22 August 1859 in Pleasant Grove, Morris, New Jersey.^1,2 He and Hattie L. Petty were married on 1 January 1884 in Briar Creek Township, Pennsylvania. He died on 9 September 1952, at age 93, in Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania.¹ He was buried in Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania.

Birth & Death: Roscoe Smith notes (his son). He attended the local Stephensburg school and then a business school at Easton, Pa. He was then employed by his uncle, Daniel Vanatta, husband of Letitia (Letty) Beatty, later becoming a partner. In 1887 James E. Smith sold the Stephensburg business to William Miller and he and his brother Willard (my grandfather) purchased the general store business of Freas Brothers in the Jackson Building on the northwest corner of Front and Market Streets in Berwick, Pa., which they together operated as Smith Brothers for the next thirty years. (See photo on den wall.) Two additional sons were born to James and Hattie; James Howard (19 May 1987) who married Gertrude Blunt; and Arthur Matthias (7 April 1893) who married Meta Shobert. Willard married Louise Petty, sister of Hattie, and to them was born one son, Clarence Willard who married Laura Wilde.
James Edgar Smith was a very active person, a devout member of the First Presbyterian Church, Berwick, a trustee at time of building a new church at Second and Vine Streets, later sold to the Reformed Congregation when the Market Street church was built, shortly thereafter becoming a lifetime elder and in 1943 received a testimonial spread on the Minutes of the Session for having served continuously as such for fifty years. At the time of his death he was the oldest living Past Master of Knapp Lodge No. 462, F. & A.M. which he had also served for more than twenty years as Secretary. At the time of his death he was Senior Vice President and only surviving member of the first board of directors of the Berwick Bank. He was also at that time senior member of the board of directors of the Berwick Building & Loan Association, and also of the Pine Grove Cemetery Association. He served on Berwick Borough Council and for many years was President of Berwick Board of School Directors. He owned and/or controlled, not as an agent nor ever too many at one time, a number of rental properties, helped to organize and for a period operated the Berwick Shirt Manufacturing Company, and later the Berwick Match Company. He also had a controlling interest in the Valley Hard Vein (roofing) Slate Company with quarry at Edlemans, Pa. which ceased operation at time of World War I as a non-essential industry and never again successfully operated on account of higher freight rates and the development of less expensive light weight roofing. He was ambitious and active until death; collapsed while mowing the lawn the afternoon of the day before his end. (Age 93.)

Florence (Flora) Smith was born in August 1862 in New Jersey.¹

FLORA SMITH never married. In her younger days she assisted her brothers in the operation of a general store in Berwick, Pa. (See photo on wall in den.) Before the death of her father she returned home to help care for him and to assist in the raising of her sister Bertha's two daughters. After the death of her mother she lived with her niece, Elizabeth Evans Latham, to assist in the care of her sister Bertha who died first and to help raise Kathy, daughter of Marie Evans Finn. Flora and Bertha are buried in Hackettstown, N.J. cemetery. Flora lived with James and Hattie many years and had a tremendous influence in the upbringing of Roscoe, Howard and Arthur, all to the good. (Roscoe Smith notes)
BIRTH: Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher - from newspaper article about her.

Bertha Smith was born in 1874 in Stephensburg, Morris, New Jersey.^2,1,3 She and Floyd Wilson Evans were married on 6 September 1904 in Pleasant Grove, Morris, New Jersey, Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church.^1,3 She died on 8 June 1947, at age ~73.³ She was buried in Union Cemetery, Hackettstown, Warren, New Jersey.³

BIRTH: Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher
DEATH: Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher
Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher - M. 6 Sep 1904, in Pleasant Grove Presb. Ch., Floyd Wilson Evans. Married by Rev. J. W. Lowden of Bloomfield, NJ. Floyd was a widower of NYC, son of W. H. and Jane DeWitt Evans. Ch. Elizabeth, m. Mr. Latham; Marie Evans (name from 78th Birthday Article for Aunt Flora, Aug. 30, 1939).

Catherine (Kate) M. Smith was born in May 1877 in Stephensburg, Morris, New Jersey.^1,2 She and John Park (Peter) Baldwin were married about 1897.³ She died in 1954, at age ~77.² She was buried in Union Cemetery, Hackettstown, Warren, New Jersey.²

BIRTH: Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher
BURIAL: Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher
DEATH: Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher
Info from Mary Sliker, Sliker family researcher - M. 1897, John P. Baldwin, b. Dec 1877, (son of Jacob C. Baldwin and Rachel A. Park), he d. 1966, buried Hackettstown Union Cem. Children: "Female" Baldwom b. 24 Jul 1898, Stephensburg, Was. Twp., Morris, NJ.; Lester S. Baldwin b. 1898, m. Edna Hazen, d. 1981, bur. Hackettstown Union Cem., Lester d. 1950, bur. same.

Floyd Wilson Evans was born on 9 December 1872 in Ulsterville, New York.^2,1,3 He and Bertha Smith were married on 6 September 1904 in Pleasant Grove, Morris, New Jersey, Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church.^1,4 He died in 1936, at age ~64.

Floyd Wilson Evans was a Mine Foreman in United States Gypsum Company.⁵

John Park (Peter) Baldwin was born on 10 December 1877 in Stephensburg, New Jersey.^3,1,4 He and Catherine (Kate) M. Smith were married about 1897.⁵ He died in 1966, at age ~89.^2,4 He was buried in Union Cemetery, Hackettstown, Warren, New Jersey.⁴

John Park (Peter) Baldwin was in American Saw and Machine Company, Hackettstown, New Jersey.²

Ruth Smith was born on 2 February 1897 in Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania. She died on 17 March 1897, at age 0, in Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania.

Birth: Smith family bible Death: Smith family bible.

Roscoe Lee Smith was born on 10 May 1885 in Morris, Clearfield, Pennsylvania.^1,2,3 He and Marguerite (Beatrice) McCombe were married on 18 August 1919 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York.¹ He died in May 1963, at age ~78.³

Roscoe Lee Smith was a Civil Engineer.⁴
Roscoe Smith notes.

Howard James Smith was born on 19 May 1887 in Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania.¹ He died after 6 April 1940.

Howard James Smith was a Physician.²
Roscoe Smith Notes.

Arthur Matthias Smith was born on 7 April 1893 in Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania.^1,2 He and Flora V. (?) were married about 1928.³ He died after 1942 in Connecticut.

Arthur Matthias Smith was an Engineer in Gas Station.³
Roscoe Smith notes.