Francis SMITH (1879- )
1 Francis Hill SMITH1,2 (1879- ) [13605]. Born 3 Jun 1879.2
Birth year shown 1877 and 1879.
2 Francis Hill SMITH1,3,4 (1842- ) [13602]. Born 15 Oct 1842, Boston, MA.3 Marr Clara Montfort FAY 25 Jul 1874, West New Brighton, Staten Island, NY.3 Buried Middlesex County, Cambridge, Mt. Auburn Cemetery.5
3 Clara Montfort FAY1,3 (1845- ) [13601]. Born 10 Jul 1845, MA.1,3 Buried Middlesex County, Cambridge, Mt. Auburn Cemetery.5
6 Samuel Howard FAY3,6 (1804- ) [4362]. Born 21 Jul 1804.3,6
12 Samuel Phillips Prescott FAY3,6,7,8,9 (1778-1856) [4360]. Born 10 Jan 1778, Concord, MA.3,6,7,8 Marr Harriet HOWARD 1801.3 Died 18 May 1856, Cambridge, MA.3,8,10
From the History of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts compiled by D. Hamilton Hurd, 1890.
"Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay, son of Jonathan Fay, of Concord, was born in that own January 10, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1803, in the class with John Farrar, James Savage and Samuel Willard. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1803 and first settled at Cambridgeport. He was a councilor in 1818-19, member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, and an overseer of Harvard College from 1825 to 1852. On the 12th of May, 1821, he was appointed judge of Probate and afterwards lived in old Cambridge until his death, May 18, 1856."
From the Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA).
May 20, 1856 - "DEATH OF JUDGE FAY. The venerable Hon. Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay, of Cambridge, died in that city on Sunday last. The deceased was Judge of Probate for Middlesex County for a long term of years, and was a man universally respected and esteemed. He was the disciple of Dr. William E. Channing, Judge Story, Rev. Dr. Tuckerman, and other noted men, having graduated at Harvard in 1798. His age was 78.".
13 Harriet HOWARD3,6,9 (1782-1847) [4361]. Born 1782.6 Died 28 Jul 1847, Cambridge, MA.11
7 Susan Montford SHELLMAN6,12 (1808-1887) [4363]. Born 1808.6 Died 13 Jan 1887, Boston, MA.13
Sources
| 1 | "1880 MA, Suffolk, Boston census". |
| 2 | "1920 OH, Montgomery, Van Buren census". |
| 3 | "Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants by Orlin P. Fay, 1898". |
| 4 | "Biography of Francis Hill Smith in Men of Progress, One Thousand Biographical Sketches by Richard Herndon, 1896". |
| 5 | "MA: Middlesex County, Cambridge, Mt. Auburn Cemetery records". |
| 6 | "Information provided by Jeffery H. Lloyd". |
| 7 | "History of the Town of Concord by Lemuel Shattuck, 1835". |
| 8 | "History of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts compiled by D. Hamilton Hurd, 1890". |
| 9 | "Ancestors of George W. Bush *1946 (explanations) by William Addams Reitwiesner". |
| 10 | "Obituary of Judge Fay in the Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), May 20, 1856". |
| 11 | "Death notice of Mrs. Harriet Fay in the Daily Atlas (Boston, MA), August 5, 1847". |
| 12 | "Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application of Howard Fay". |
| 13 | "Death notice of Susan Fay in the New York Times, January 15, 1887". |
