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In 1872 he removed. with his family, to Louis- ville, Kentucky, and in March, 1876, he accompanied
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Dr. R. D. Porter's company to the Black Hills, then a wilderness.
The party reached Whitewood Creek, where the city of Deadwood now stands, in the latter part of May, and here the minister began his labors as missionary. The snow was deep, the weather in- tensely cold. On June I the snow fell to the depth of four inches, and remained on the ground three days. Mr. Smith put a shoulder to the wheel in all the labor of the pioneers, helped to rear the huts, make roads and build bridges, and was one of the founders of the wonderful western city, since he helped to build it with his own hands. He worked with the miners in digging for gold, and sent the first of his findings to help in founding the Louisville Methodist Episcopal chapel. He delivered the first sermon ever preached in the Black Hills. "He was well known and much beloved by nearly every miner in the hills; he had not an enemy in these hills except the Indians, who are the enemies of all white men," is a quotation from The Black Hills Pioncer of that date. He labored with them during the day, and preached evenings and Sab- baths. It was not uncommon for him to preach in the various camps, standing upon a dry goods box, at one end of a line, in competition with the gamb- ling, and usually one after another of the gamblers stole from their amusement to listen to his earnest address. He was popular among the pioneers, and they took every opportunity to show their apprecia- tion of his services.
It was just after the massacre of General Custer's command by the Sioux. Indian depredations were frequent, and the life of a pioneer was extremely hazardous, but Henry Smith was brave enough to venture on journeys from one embryo city to an- other to preach the Gospel, taking his way over trails where Indians lay in ambush, although he was often warned of the danger.
On Sunday, August 20, he left Deadwood in the early morning. Upon his cabin door he pinned a note: "Gone to Crook City. Expect to be back at about 3 P. M."
He reached his destination, preached at Crook City, and was on his return to Deadwood, where he had an appointment to preach in the theatre building, then just erected. As he was riding through a thick grove, and descended into a vale, about two miles from Deadwood, he was attacked by seven Sioux Indians who were lying in ambush, and mistook the minister for the mail-carrier. He was shot through both legs, but there was brave blood coursing in his veins, and he returned the fire, killing one of the savages. The remaining six rushed from their covert, he was dragged from his saddle and literally hacked and shot to death, before they discovered their mistake.
The Bihle in his pocket, a gift of the celebrated Divine, Rev. Dr. Diodate Brockway to Mr. Smith, when he was but a youth in Sabbath school, revealed the truth to the savages.
Crying out that they had killed the "Bible Man," they folded his hands over the Bible upon his breast and were turning away without scalping the dead, when they were attacked by three scouts who came upon the seene too late to save the missionary's life. Shots were exchanged from cover on both sides. One scout, Charles Mason, was killed. Henry Jorgens, who was a distant relative of Mrs. Smith, and a third scout, were in pursuit of the Sioux, who earlier in the day had murdered three white men. The Indians fled, and the two remain- ing scouts were joined by the mail carrier, who had discovered the Indians and avoided them by hiding in a bramble thicket. He witnessed the murder,
and from a partial knowledge of the Sioux dialect, understood the conversation. The three men hurried to Deadwood, and a force of seventy-five men was- sent out with teams to bring in the dead.
Texas Bill, a famous scout, and Calamity Jane, an Amazon border heroine and Indian fighter, ac- companied the party. They found that the dead. savage was a chief, gaudily attired. His horse,. gaily caparisoned after a barbaric taste, had re- mained beside his dead master. Texas Bill cut off the Indian's head and placed it on a pole; the body was dragged to the city by a lariat attached to. the pommel of Texas Bill's saddle, the chief's pony following. The bodies of the minister and Mason were placed in a cart. At 3 o'clock P. M. the minister's lifeless form was lying in the cabin; the last words he penned fluttered at his door. The ghastly relic of this murder, the Indian's skull, is in the Smithsonian Institute, together the mission- ary's Bible, field glass, and rifle.
Mrs. Smith has the few notes of the sermon her husband delivered that day, blood-stained, as they were taken from his vest pocket, and the lost words penned by his hand, which were removed from his cabin door.
Two memorials have been erected to his mem- ory; one is the chapel at Louisville, Kentucky, which he assisted in building with the first dust dug in the gold region of the Black Hills; the other a $5.000 statue, erected in Mount Moriah cemetery, Deadwood.
The sculptor was J. H. Riordan, of New York. The inscription reads :
"Connecticut 1827. Dakota 1876. In memory of Rev. Henry Weston Smith, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the pioneer preacher in the Black Hills, killed by the Indians, August 20, 1876, while on his way from Deadwood to Crook City to Preach. Faithful Unto Death. This tribute was erected 1891 by his Black Hill friends."
He was first beside "Wild Bill," the scout, and friend of "Buffalo Bill." After Mount Moriah ceme- tery was laid out his body was removed and placed' in the cemetery, and a monument placed at his grave. Later this monument was removed and the statue substituted.
Mrs. Smith has a photograph of the statue, and pronounces it a perfect likeness. It is believed that the body was petrified, and that the statue was pro- duced so perfectly by this means. Even the peculiar tracery of the veins of his left hand were faith- fully copied, and no photograph sent to aid in the work showed the back of either hand. It was re- ported that the body of "Wild Bill" was petrified when removed from the ground where the min- ister was first interred.
September 15, Mrs. Smith received a bundle of letters, mutilated and soiled. The mail from Dead- wood was taken as far as Custer City, and there accumulated, for the' reason that the road between Custer City and Cheyenne was swarming with Indians, and none cared to venture as pony rider.
When a man was found bold enough to make the trail, he was ambushed, murdered, the mail he carried was rifled, and the letters left upon the ground. These were picked up by a party of hunters, who found the dead body of the carrier near by. The letters were sent to St. Joseph, Mis- souri, and were forwarded by the postmaster to their several destinations, minus all the valuables they had contained. The letters showed that the min- ister was exceedingly anxious because he had re- ceived no news from his family. In the letter bear- ing date of August 18, he writes: "I am sick with the worry, for I have received not a word from
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my dear ones," etc. Their letters to him had been delayed for the same reason that his had been de- tained.
While his wife and children were rejoicing that he was alive and well, as stated in his letters, the terrible news came-only a few words of a tele- graphic dispatch in the Louisville Courier Journal. "The Indians raided on the road between Dead- wood and Crook City, August 20, and killed Rev. H. Weston Smith, a minister from Kentucky, and three others."
For three weeks his family suffered all the ter- rors of uncertainty. Custer's few remaining soldiers, six in number, had been burned at the stake. Had the husband and father suffered the same horrible fate? Then came news that he had been slain by bullet and knife.
Mrs. Smith was left alone, far from her native New England, to support a family of three chil- dren. She tried her pen, and was successful enough to earn bread and shelter. She wrote first corre- spondence for the Louisville Courier Journal, and serials for the Louisville Saturday Reviewe.
She has written newspaper serials for the past thirty years. The family was living at Louisville, Kentucky, when Mr. Smith was killed. Two years later they removed to Texas, where they remained for four years, when they returned to Louisville, and finally to Cincinnati, where they were living at the time of the great flood in 1883. As a result of the flood, Mrs. Smith's eldest son was taken with typhoid fever, and after lingering for weeks his physician advised that he be taken to New England. She brought him to her old home, hoping to save his life by a change of climate. It was all in vain. He died at her cousin's house, August 18, 1883, and was buried August 21, just seven years to the day and hour after his father's burial in Dakota. Her second son, Legrand, died in Louisville, Kentucky, two years previous to his father's death. He was buried in Cave Hill cemetery, at Louisville.
After the remainder of the family came to Wor- cester, Mrs. Smith learned stenography and type- writing, and assisted her daughter, Mrs. Edna Tyler, in the office, until within a few years. She is now devoting her time to literary work and household duties. She lives at 28 Belmont street, Worcester, with her two daughters, Mrs. Tyler and Mrs. Ger- trude Aglae Dudley, and her granddaughter, Geraldine Weston Dudley.
The author of the Genealogy of the Stevens, Chase, Lawrence and Townley families says of her : "An indefatigable worker and capable assistant of the compiler of this pedigree."
Two of Mrs. Smith's books have been pub- lished, "Black Mask," and "Lords of the Soil." The latter was published in 1905 by the C. M. Clark Publishing Company, of Boston. She has written regularly for Woman's Sunshine, the New York Weekly; Peterson's Magazine; the Boston Globe; and the Chicago Ledger.
The titles of some of her longer serials are : "Star of the Night;" "Oath Bound ;" "Judge Ross- more's Will:" "Two Faces' Defeat;" "Slaves of Bell and Whistle:" "Pretty Goldie's Love Match ;" "Little Erlamond's Fortune;" "Carolyn, the Factory Girl ;" "Cuba's Dark Secrets;" "A Shadowed Love;" and "Old Fan's Prophecy."
The children of Rev. Henry Weston Smith and Lydia Annie (Joslyn) Smith are: I. Gerald Ackland Smith, born at Tolland, Connecticut, March 27, 1859; died at Tolland, August 18, 1883, minmarried ; buried at Tolland. 2. Edna Ione Smith, born at South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, October 20, 1861; married Erastus D. Tyler ; no children. 3.
Elmer Legrand Smith, born at Tolland, May 12, 1863; died at Louisville, Kentucky, of spinal menin- gitis, April 4, 1874; buried at Cave Hill cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky. 4. Gertrude Aglae Smith; born at Springfield, Massachusetts, September 16, I870; married Fred George Dudley, at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, April 29, 1893. Geraldine Dudley, daughter of Fred G. and Gertrude Aglae Dudley, was born at Worcester, February 28, 1894.
The genealogy of Edna Ione (Smith) Tyler is as follows:
(I) John Hathaway was an emigrant ancestor of Edna Ione Tyler, of Worcester, Massachusetts. He married (second) Ruth -, who was born 1643; died September 10, 1705, aged sixty-two years. She was buried at Berkley, Connecticut. Hathaway came from London in the "Blessing" in 1635, at the age of eighteen years. He became a proprietor of Taunton, Massachuseets, and held various offices under the colonial government. The genealogy says that he died intestate, subsequent to October 5, 1704, and prior to September 10, 1705, and that his widow Ruth was administratrix. Possibly this is his son John. The father made a will August 3, 1689. It was proved February 15, 1696-7. He lived at Barnstable in 1656 and later removed to Yarmouth, Massachu- setts. His children were: I. John, born Angust 16, 1658. 2. Hannah, born May, 1662. 3. Edward, born February 10, 1663. 4. Thomas. 5. Gideon. 6. Daughters by a former wife; widow Elizabeth was directed to bestow on them in John, Sr.'s will. 7. Abraham, not mentioned in will, indicating perhaps that there were two John Hathaways at Taunton, one with widow Ruth, the other with widow Elizabeth.
(II) Abraham Hathaway, son of John Hatha- way (1), was born 1652. He lived in that part of Taunton now the town of Dighton. He was deacon of the church there. He was the owner of the iron works at Freetown, Massachusetts. He had a ferry on the Taunton river; he purchased of Henry Pitts, November 7, 1712, an iron mine at Dighton. His will was made August 18, 1725, and proved April. 29, 1726. He died August, 1725, aged seventy-three years; was buried at Berkeley or Berkley, as it is now spelled. He married Rebecca Wilbur, of Taun- ton, August 28, 1684. She died August 30, 1727, aged sixty-five years. Their children were: I. Abraham Hathaway, born September 11, 1685; yeo- man, lived at Dighton; died June, 1726. 2. Thomas, born January 26, 1686. 3. Ebenezer Hathaway, born May 25, 1689; colonel of militia ; died February 16, 1768 in his seventy-ninth year; buried at the Hatha- way homestead at Freetown, Massachusetts. Will made September 24, 1764; proved February 29, 1708; married (first) Hannalı Shaw, March 6, 1710-II ; married (second), December 20, 1727. 4. Shadrach, died prior to 1725, had son Simeon Hathaway, of Suffield, Massachusetts, now Suffield, Connecticut. 5. Samuel Hathaway, bloomer, living in 1728. in Suffield. 6. Rebecca Hathaway. 7. Benjamin Hath- away, bloomer living October 3, 1739; removed to Hanover, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. 8. John Hathaway, (see forward). 9. Eleazer Hathaway, living 1728, settled in Rochester, Massachusetts.
(111) John Hathaway, son of Abraham Hath- away (2), born at Taunton, now Dighton, Massa- chusetts, in 1695; he married Mercy -, who died May 15, 1786, in her eighty-third year. She ad- ministered his estate. He was a saddler by trade; executor of his father's will; died September 13, 1733. She married (second) George Babbitt, a joiner, and lived at Berkley. He was the son of Edward and Elizabeth Babbitt and was born Oc- tober 9, 1717; married Mercy Hathaway, June 15,
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1735, and had Silas and Ruth. Children of John Hathaway were: I. John, born August 10, 1724; colonel of Second Regiment militia Bristol county, Connecticut, at the head of which he fought through the revolutionary war; died June 27, 1800, in his seventy-sixth year. He married (first). February 16, 1744, Elizabeth Eldridge, born February 17, 1724; died July 12, 1758, in her thirty-fifth year; married ( second), December 2, 1761, Alice King, born Sep- tember, 1736; died January 28, 1818, in her eighty- second year. 2. Mary ( see forward). 3. Ruth. 4. Samuel. 5. Martha, married Abiel Hathaway, son of Seth Hathaway, of Dighton, and wife Damaris Paul, daughter of Edward Paul. Abiel's sister mar- ried Noah Dean, of Taunton, Massachusetts.
(IV) Mary Hathaway, daughter of John Hathaway (3), born at Dighton, Massachusetts, November 8, 1726; married Robert Stephens, Janu- ary 3, 1745. (See Stephens family for her de- scendants.)
STEPHENS FAMILY. (1) Richard Stephens was an emigrant ancestor of Edna Ione Tyler, of Worcester. He was a weaver and wool comber from Plymouth, England, and was the first ancestor in America of Robert Stephens of Canterbury, Con- necticut. Ile was one of the proprietors of Taun- ton, Massachusetts. About 1695 he owned a forge or bloomery at the Taunton line, on Three Mile river, near the present site of North Dighton, Massa- chusetts, and he had a furnace for making charcoal iron. He died intestate at Norton, Massachusetts, at the home of his son Thomas Stephens, to whom he had given his property with the provision that he should be cared for the rest of his life. He was probably the brother of Henry Stephens, of Ston- ington county, Connecticut. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Lincoln, a miller, of Taunton, Massachusetts, prior to May 30, 1670, the date of his father's deed of property to Richard. Their children were: I. Richard, born March, 1667-8; millwright; lived at Taunton; married Priscilla. 2. Nicholas (see forward). 3. Thomas, born February 3, 1674; lived at Norton, Massachusetts; planter ; married Mary Caswell, sister of John Caswell, of Berkley, Massachusetts. 4. Tamsin, born July 3, 1677; married Edward Wilcox, of Westerly, Rhode Island, May 5, 1698. 5. Mary, born June 4, 1679; married Ephraim Minor, of Stonington, Connecti- .eut, May 24, 1694. 6. Nathaniel, born July 30, 1680, in Taunton; removed to Roxbury, Massachusetts ; married Hannah
(II) Nicholas Stephens,
son of Richard Stephens (1), born February 23, 1669; died prior to November 9, 1747; subsequent to April 22, 1746; married (first) Remembrance -; married (sec- ond) Anne Spurr, daughter of John Spur or Spurr, of Taunton ; married (third) Mary (Rossier) Dean, widow of Seth Dean, of Taunton. Her children by first husband were: Jacob, Silas, Paul, Edward and Sarahı Dean. Children of Nicholas Stephens were : I. Daniel, born April 29, 1696. 2. Son, born Feb- ruary 24, 1698. 3. Nicholas, born February 24, 1702; shipwright; lived at Dighton; died April 30, 1753. 4. Joseph, born April 23. 1704: blacksmith; lived at Dighton. 5. Isaac Stephens, born October II, 1706; yeoman; lived at Taunton. 6. Josiah Stephens, born November 23, 1707; cordwainer; lived at Taunton. 7. Hannah Stephens, born October 6, 1710. 8. Anne Stephens, born May 8, 1715; married (first) Joseph Jones, of Taunton ; married (second) Ro- bert Emmes, of Scituate, Massachusetts. 9. Robert, see forward.
(III) Robert Stephens, son of Nicholas Stephens (2), was horn about 1718. He was executor of liis father's will. He removed to East Thompson, Con-
neetieut, about 1760, and later settled at Canterbury, Connecticut. He died at Pomfret, Connecticut, De- eember 6, 1791, and was buried at Abington Four Corners. He married January 3, 1745, Mary Hath- away (q. v.), of Berkley, Massachusetts. Their children were: I. Ann, born at Berkley, Massa- chusetts, baptized November 23, 1746; married Asa Rose, of Jewett City, Connecticut, had children. 2. Mary (see forward). 3. Marcy, baptized at Berk- ley, May 5, 1751; died March 15, 1819, in her sixty- eighth year; buried at Ellington, Connecticut; mar- ried Meletiah Martin of Killingly, April 25, 1782. 4. Robert, married Lydia Adams, born April 28, 1760; died March 24, 1824; buried at Canterbury, Connecticut. He was born at Berkley, January 15, 1753; baptized there June 21, 1753: died February I, 1813; married and buried in Canterbury. 5. Darius, baptized at Berkley, February 25, 1755; re- moved with parents to Canterbury; killed at bat- tle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. He was shot through both knees but refused to have himself re- moved from the field. He loaded and fired his musket several times before receiving his death wound. He was unmarried. 6. Lemuel, baptized at Killingly, Connecticut, June 12, 1757; removed with his parents to Canterbury and thence to Han- over, New Hampshire; was a non-commissioned officer in the revolutionary war under General Is- rael Putnam; was a pensioner until his death in March, 1838, aged over eighty years; married Mary Pike, of Canterbury, who was born June 28, 1763; died October 10, 1839, aged over seventy-six years. 7. Sylvia, born March 25, 1763, in Canterbury ; married Chester Ingalls, of Pomfret, Connecticut, April 4, 1784. He was born August 9, 1762; died May 29, 1842; removed with her husband to Han- over, New Hampshire; died August 28, 18 ; in 1794 she went with her brother Lemuel, his wife and son Lemuel, to visit her mother at Canterbury, Connecticut. 8. Patty, died unmarried. 9. John Hathaway, born at Canterbury, Connecticut, Sep- tember 20, 1766; installed pastor over the First Con- gregational Church at Stoneham, Massachusetts, where he preached over thirty years; died at Stone- ham, August 9, 1851, aged eighty-five years, and is buried in the old cemetery in the town of Stoneham. He married (first) Lora Flint, of Windham, Con- necticut. She died at Stoneham, September 2, 1817. He married (second) Elizabeth, widow of - Andrews, of Salem. She died January 7, 1855, in Stoneham, and is buried there. She was eighty-five years old.
(IV) Mary Stephens (Stevens), daughter of Robert Stevens (3), born at Berkley, Massachusetts, and baptized there, May 2, 1749; died in Thompson, Connecticut, October 8, 1823, aged seventy-four years ; married Ebenezer Starr (a Quaker). He was born in Killingly, Cannecticut, February 10, 1741; died October 13, 1804. He was proprietor of a large hotel, and was murdered in his own house, by one Dr. Weaver, on account of his refusal to sell liquor to a sot. He pointed out his murderer to his daughter, Mary Starr, and groaned, "Mary, see the wretch !" (This Mary Starr was Mrs. Smith's grandmother.) Ebenezer Starr was buried at Brandy Hill, East Thompson, Connecticut. He was grandfather of the late William Eli Starr, for many years Actuary of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company, of Worcester. His children were: I. Eli, born February 6, 1774, in Thompson, Con- neetieut ; died June 1, 1829, of hemorrhage of the lungs, while singing in the church choir; buried at Stoneham, Massachusetts; was proprietor of a wholesale shoe store on Cornhill street, Boston; married Lydia Richardson, of Stoneham, Massachu-
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setts; had one child, a daughter, Lydia, who mar- ried John Bigelow, of Boston. 2. Darius, born Au- gust 30, 1775; married Sarah Wilson; died in Will- ington, Connecticut, aged more than ninety years. Children' were: Amelia; John Wilson; William Eli; Catherine; Sarah; Darius; Maria. 3. Isaac, born May 23, 1777; married (first) Eliza Emmons, of Hadden, Connecticut; married (second) Chloe Upham. 4. Ebenezer, of Thompson, Connecticut, born August 2, 1780, married Anna Stevens Rose (his cousin), who was born August 2, 1782; married at Lisbon, Connecticut, October 18, 1803; died Oc- tober 2, 1869. 5. John Hathaway, died unmarried in Dinwiddie county, Virginia. He was a Preshy- terian clergyman; died of consumption at the age of thirty-eight. 6. Comfort, died at Thompson, Connecticut, unmarried. 7. Sarah, married (first) Abijah Fuller, and had three children: Ebenezer Starr Fuller, Adeline, Friendship Fields. She mar- ried (second) David Lamb, of Charlton, Massachu- setts. Her daughters, Adeline and Friendship, mar- ried the sons of David Lamb, Eebenezer and Ziba Lamb. 8. Sylvia, died at the age of two years, of scarlet fever. 9. Mary (see forward).
(V) Mary Starr (Mrs. Smith's grandmother), daughter of Ebenezer Starr, born in Thompson, Connecticut, March, 1785; married Jonas Wilson, son of John Wilson, of Thompson, Connecticut, who served through the entire period of the revolutionary war. He was the son of John Wilson, an officer who fought under the English flag with Israel Put- nam, until near the close of the French and Indian war, when he was taken prisoner by the Indians, ran the gauntlet, and was fearfully mutilated. He received the gauntlet belt from the Indians as a token of his bravery, and a guarantee against any harm from the Indians. Jonas Wilson served in the war of 1812. The marriage of Mary Starr and Jonas Wilson took place at Thompson in the year 1805. Their children were: I. Sylvia Ann, born in Thompson, Connecticut, 1806; married Abial Smith, of Putnam, Connecticut. Their children were: Albert, Laura, and John. 2. Laura, born in Thompson, Connecticut, 1808; married Welcome Eddy; died of consumption at the age of twenty- one years, four months and three days; buried in Thompson, Connecticut; no children. 3. Elizabeth Prince, born in Thompson, Connecticut, March, 1810; married Welcome Eddy. Their children were : Henry, Thomas Learned, Edwin, and Laura. 4. Lydia Starr, (see forward). 5. Hannah, was born 1815, at Thompson, Connecticut; married Osmer Wilson, of Ashtord, Connecticut. Their children were: Perry Potter, born at Tolland, Connecticut, 1840; David, born in Vernon, Connecticut; Lewis Cass, born in Pomfret, Connecticut; Perry Potter, was a soldier in the civil war, where he lost a leg. He was just commissioned lieutenant. He was postmaster at Putnam, Connecticut, for fifteen years. 6. Jonas, Jr., born at Thompson, Connecticut, 1817; married Merinda Bickford. He left numerous descendants. 7. Mary Sophronia, born 1819, at Thompson, Con- necticut ; married in 1837, Captain William Clapp, grandson of John Day, the owner of the village of Davyville, Connecticut. Children were: Horace, born 1838; Albert, born 1839; Ellen, born 1841 ; married John Dexter, of Killingly; Sarah, born 1843; married - Tirrell; Lowell, graduated from Yale, studied Theology and died from the mental strain. Captain William Clapp served in the civil war, as did his two sons, Horace and Albert. Lieu- tenant Albert Clapp was killed during the war, at Napoleonville, Louisiana, shot by his dearest friend, by his own order. He, with a number of his com-
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