Edna healey Pace's Blog (3)

How far have you gotten on the Smith's? Vermilya's,  etc.  There is lots on Google, including biographies of George. B. R. Smith, and Theophilus Washington Smith, and etc. 

I have Thomas Smith's will from 178?? something.  Where he lists all his 6 children.  oldest son: Richard, married well and was a great realestate developer, etc in NYC.  George, a bank president, Theo W. a Supreme Court justice in Illinois.  (btw , he is the only person ever impeached in Illinois, before…

Have been searching high and low for the last member of Thomas Smith- Mary Greene Smith (Fosbrook) family.

SARAH SMITH BORN ABOUT 1774. in New York, lived in New York City.

Her 5 siblings are: Thomas Robert Smith, Mary Greene Smith, Charlotte Clara Smith, Theophilus W. Smith and George Bridges Rodney Smith.

Have a fair amount of information on all of them, but nothing on Sarah Smith.

The brothers and sisters married into old New York families like…

Ran across your post of Healy-Crosby from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

the Comfort Healy you show as your gggrandfather, is my grandfather's grandfather. (Also named Comfort Haley)

I have the copy of the same inscription from his tombstone: They are taken frp, Watt's Psalms and Hymns, - the first four lines of Hymn No. 18, and the last four lines of Hymn No. 19.

His son, Ebenezer Haley, the California pioneer , has the samae four lines on Hymn No. 18 on his gravestone in the…