Daughter of Thomas Delmont Powers 1827 –
and Hannah Eliza (Hakes) Powers 1827 – 1888
Married the widow and father of one, George Nelson Smith Jr., on December 23, 1868, her first husband.
They are the parents of seven children, daughter Maud Smith married her cousin, Allen Wolfe who is the son of George's sister, Mary Jane (Smith) and Payson Wolfe.
Their daughter, Maud, died of blood poisoning, which was the common term of the day, the medical term is Septicemia, at age 24, in 1894. George and Settie raised Maud's three young children, one a mere nine-months-old, the others were two and three years of age.
George died three years after Maud, in 1897, at the age of 64. He also died of the same cause of death, "blood poisoning."
Settie was a poetess and writer, writing under the pen name of "Faustine" for many years. She was a contributor to the T. S. Arthur magazine as well as Harper's and Chicago and other newspapers. She was also the sporting writer for The Detroit Journal for several years.
On December 24, 1904, she married her second husband, B[enjamin] Frank Wright. He too was a journalist and reporter, formerly at the Detroit Journal, at the time of their marriage he was a clerk at the County Auditor's office in Detroit. They likely knew each other from their days together at the paper.
Seddie died of Uterine Cancer.
She was first married to George Nelson Smith Jr., and is buried with him in Northport.
Seddie's father was also a Powers, same as George's mother, they were possibly cousins who married.
and Hannah Eliza (Hakes) Powers 1827 – 1888
Married the widow and father of one, George Nelson Smith Jr., on December 23, 1868, her first husband.
They are the parents of seven children, daughter Maud Smith married her cousin, Allen Wolfe who is the son of George's sister, Mary Jane (Smith) and Payson Wolfe.
Their daughter, Maud, died of blood poisoning, which was the common term of the day, the medical term is Septicemia, at age 24, in 1894. George and Settie raised Maud's three young children, one a mere nine-months-old, the others were two and three years of age.
George died three years after Maud, in 1897, at the age of 64. He also died of the same cause of death, "blood poisoning."
Settie was a poetess and writer, writing under the pen name of "Faustine" for many years. She was a contributor to the T. S. Arthur magazine as well as Harper's and Chicago and other newspapers. She was also the sporting writer for The Detroit Journal for several years.
On December 24, 1904, she married her second husband, B[enjamin] Frank Wright. He too was a journalist and reporter, formerly at the Detroit Journal, at the time of their marriage he was a clerk at the County Auditor's office in Detroit. They likely knew each other from their days together at the paper.
Seddie died of Uterine Cancer.
She was first married to George Nelson Smith Jr., and is buried with him in Northport.
Seddie's father was also a Powers, same as George's mother, they were possibly cousins who married.
Daughter of Thomas Delmont Powers 1827 –
and Hannah Eliza (Hakes) Powers 1827 – 1888
Married the widow and father of one, George Nelson Smith Jr., on December 23, 1868, her first husband.
They are the parents of seven children, daughter Maud Smith married her cousin, Allen Wolfe who is the son of George's sister, Mary Jane (Smith) and Payson Wolfe.
Their daughter, Maud, died of blood poisoning, which was the common term of the day, the medical term is Septicemia, at age 24, in 1894. George and Settie raised Maud's three young children, one a mere nine-months-old, the others were two and three years of age.
George died three years after Maud, in 1897, at the age of 64. He also died of the same cause of death, "blood poisoning."
Settie was a poetess and writer, writing under the pen name of "Faustine" for many years. She was a contributor to the T. S. Arthur magazine as well as Harper's and Chicago and other newspapers. She was also the sporting writer for The Detroit Journal for several years.
On December 24, 1904, she married her second husband, B[enjamin] Frank Wright. He too was a journalist and reporter, formerly at the Detroit Journal, at the time of their marriage he was a clerk at the County Auditor's office in Detroit. They likely knew each other from their days together at the paper.
Seddie died of Uterine Cancer.
She was first married to George Nelson Smith Jr., and is buried with him in Northport.
Seddie's father was also a Powers, same as George's mother, they were possibly cousins who married.
and Hannah Eliza (Hakes) Powers 1827 – 1888
Married the widow and father of one, George Nelson Smith Jr., on December 23, 1868, her first husband.
They are the parents of seven children, daughter Maud Smith married her cousin, Allen Wolfe who is the son of George's sister, Mary Jane (Smith) and Payson Wolfe.
Their daughter, Maud, died of blood poisoning, which was the common term of the day, the medical term is Septicemia, at age 24, in 1894. George and Settie raised Maud's three young children, one a mere nine-months-old, the others were two and three years of age.
George died three years after Maud, in 1897, at the age of 64. He also died of the same cause of death, "blood poisoning."
Settie was a poetess and writer, writing under the pen name of "Faustine" for many years. She was a contributor to the T. S. Arthur magazine as well as Harper's and Chicago and other newspapers. She was also the sporting writer for The Detroit Journal for several years.
On December 24, 1904, she married her second husband, B[enjamin] Frank Wright. He too was a journalist and reporter, formerly at the Detroit Journal, at the time of their marriage he was a clerk at the County Auditor's office in Detroit. They likely knew each other from their days together at the paper.
Seddie died of Uterine Cancer.
She was first married to George Nelson Smith Jr., and is buried with him in Northport.
Seddie's father was also a Powers, same as George's mother, they were possibly cousins who married.
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