According to a memoir of Stephen R Smith, the text of the memorial reads:
HOPE SMITH
Aged 72 years. Interred at Delta, N.Y.
Died April 16, 1843***. (***NOTE: He was aged 72 in 1823, not 1843)
Rachel Smith
Aged 79 years
Died March 20, 1846.
Erected by S. R. & M.C. Smith
This memorial is either a reinterment or a cenotaph. There is a memorial for him, HERE, in the original Delta Cemetery.
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Revolutionary War Veteran: 1777, served in Capt. Joseph Kimball's Company of Scituate.
He married, first, Elizabeth Mathewson.
He married, second, in Jun 1787, Rachel Horton. *See comments below.
Children(by first marriage): Obadiah Smith(husband of Catherine Parker), Sarah Smith Bowen Potter, and Mial Smith.
Children(by second marriage): Stephen Rensselaer Smith and Maria C Smith.
*Data provided by Rev. Stephen Smith in his memoir: "About the close of the Revolutionary War, one of the greatest domestic misfortunes befell him. His wife, after bearing two sons and a daughter, became a confirmed maniac, and so remained till her death. In June 1787, he married a second wife - my mother - Rachel Horton of Gloucester, RI."
[Memoir of Rev. Stephen R. Smith, page 15]. There was no legal marriage on record, and after Hope's death, his first wife Elizabeth, received his war pension.
According to a memoir of Stephen R Smith, the text of the memorial reads:
HOPE SMITH
Aged 72 years. Interred at Delta, N.Y.
Died April 16, 1843***. (***NOTE: He was aged 72 in 1823, not 1843)
Rachel Smith
Aged 79 years
Died March 20, 1846.
Erected by S. R. & M.C. Smith
This memorial is either a reinterment or a cenotaph. There is a memorial for him, HERE, in the original Delta Cemetery.
*******************
Revolutionary War Veteran: 1777, served in Capt. Joseph Kimball's Company of Scituate.
He married, first, Elizabeth Mathewson.
He married, second, in Jun 1787, Rachel Horton. *See comments below.
Children(by first marriage): Obadiah Smith(husband of Catherine Parker), Sarah Smith Bowen Potter, and Mial Smith.
Children(by second marriage): Stephen Rensselaer Smith and Maria C Smith.
*Data provided by Rev. Stephen Smith in his memoir: "About the close of the Revolutionary War, one of the greatest domestic misfortunes befell him. His wife, after bearing two sons and a daughter, became a confirmed maniac, and so remained till her death. In June 1787, he married a second wife - my mother - Rachel Horton of Gloucester, RI."
[Memoir of Rev. Stephen R. Smith, page 15]. There was no legal marriage on record, and after Hope's death, his first wife Elizabeth, received his war pension.
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