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- SMITH - Philetus Smith, second? son of Joshua and Lydia Smith, was
born in Sullivan township Jan. 13.1835 and died in Mainsburg Sept.11,
. Aug.5,1894 he was married to Lucy Emeline Scouten, of Sullivan. To
them were born eight children as follows: Mrs Barton Rumsey, of
Mainesburg; Mrs Jonathan Leiby, of Columbia Cross Roads; Mrs Leander
Austin, Mainsburg; Hosmer P. Smith of Morristown,N.J.; Mrs G. Ingham
Maynard, of Lock Berlin, N.Y.; Mrs Hubert Bartlett, deceased; Mrs Vina
L. Smith, Mainsburg; one son died in infancy. He had nineteen living
grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Besides these he left to
mourn his loss, One brother, Ephraim Smith, of Mainsburg and two
sisters, Mrs Olive Squires, of Elk Run and Mrs Diantha Watkins, of
Rutland. He obtained a good common school education and afterward
taught for fifteen years in Sullivan township and one year-in Rutland,
farming during the summer months and finally settled on the farm where
he lived until a few years ago. He was converted early in life and was
an active member of the Mainsburg M. E. church for nearly fifty years.
He will be greatly missed there as well as in his home and among his
friends whom he visited often in later years.
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