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Mary Herrick Bonney Smith

Birth
Massachusetts, USA
Death
24 Aug 1930 (aged 76)
Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
Plot
86-107
Memorial ID
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Mary was the daughter and third child of Dr. Franklin Bonney and Priscilla Pierce Whipple and granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Jeffrson Whipple and second wife Priscilla Pierce of Wentworth NH.

Mary grew up in Hadley Massachusetts attending Hadley Academy and later Smith College and she began her career teaching in Hadley where she resided until her marriage in 1880 to Attorney Fred Smith. Fred was born in Iowa, his parents coming from New England. They married in Clarkston New York where Fred was engaged in his profession.

By the following year, the couple had moved to Saginaw and started a family. Fred and Mary had three children, Clinton and Sidney and a child who died young. After Fred died in 1910, Mary remained in Saginaw where she died at age 76 and was buried with her husband. She was survived by one brother, Charles Bonney of Hadley Mass.



SAGINAW DAILY NEWS, Monday, August 25, 1930
SMITH, MARY HERRICK (Bonney)
Widow of FREDERICK E. SMITH
Birth Date: 01/17/1854
Birth Place: HADLEY, MA
Death Date: 08/24/1930
Death Place: SAGINAW, MI
Cemetery: OAKWOOD

Mary was the daughter and third child of Dr. Franklin Bonney and Priscilla Pierce Whipple and granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Jeffrson Whipple and second wife Priscilla Pierce of Wentworth NH.

Mary grew up in Hadley Massachusetts attending Hadley Academy and later Smith College and she began her career teaching in Hadley where she resided until her marriage in 1880 to Attorney Fred Smith. Fred was born in Iowa, his parents coming from New England. They married in Clarkston New York where Fred was engaged in his profession.

By the following year, the couple had moved to Saginaw and started a family. Fred and Mary had three children, Clinton and Sidney and a child who died young. After Fred died in 1910, Mary remained in Saginaw where she died at age 76 and was buried with her husband. She was survived by one brother, Charles Bonney of Hadley Mass.



SAGINAW DAILY NEWS, Monday, August 25, 1930
SMITH, MARY HERRICK (Bonney)
Widow of FREDERICK E. SMITH
Birth Date: 01/17/1854
Birth Place: HADLEY, MA
Death Date: 08/24/1930
Death Place: SAGINAW, MI
Cemetery: OAKWOOD



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