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Polly COMFORT & Matthew Richard SMITH of Sullivan |
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Polly COMFORT & Matthew Richard SMITH of Sullivan |
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by Joyce M. Tice Summer 1998 From Database of Sullivan-Rutland Genealogy Project of Joyce M .Tice |
Copyright Joyce M. Tice 1999 - not for inclusion
in other public databases
Name and email address of submitter: Joyce
M. Tice - JoyceTice@aol.com
Matthew and Polly are great
great grandparents of JMT
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| Deke lived on Sanitarium Hill where his parents had settled. The farm was known as the Deke Smith place within the memory of people still living. This is on the other side of the road from the sanitarium. Joan O'dell remembers a foundation in that area. Herman Tears claims to have plowed it all under when he farmed the same land. | Polly's death certificate, signed by Dr. Gustin, indicates Bronco Pneumonia as cause of death with influenza as a contributory factor. Obituary: Mrs. R.M.Smith Born at Gilett on February 22, 1842, a daughter of John and Sally Head Comfort, died in the home of her daughter Maude Newell, in the Ayers house on West Main Street yesterday morning March 24 th. The funeral will be held at the Bakersburg Church on Saturday at one o'clock and interment will be in the Hawley Cemetery in Sullivan Township. Died March 24th, 1926. |
| Husband’s name : Matthew Richard SMITH | |
| Born: 18 NOV 1840 | Place: Sullivan, Tioga, PA |
| Married: 16 NOV 1858 | Place |
| Died: 24 AUG 1903 | Place: Sullivan, Tioga PA |
| Burial Date: AUG 1903 | Cemetery: Wood Cemetery, Sullivan, Tioga PA |
| Father: Rufus SMITH | Mother: Eunice Northrup WILSON |
| Wife’s name : Polly Maria COMFORT | |
| Born: 22 FEB 1842 | Place: Gillett, Ridgebury,Bradford PA |
| Married: 16 NOV 1858 | Place |
| Died: 16 MAR 1926 | Place: Troy, Bradford, PA |
| Burial Date: MAR 1926 | Cemetery: Wood Cemetery, Sullivan, Tioga PA (a.k.a. Holly Cemetery) |
| Father: John COMFORT | Mother: Sarah HEAD |
| Children (In order of birth) | |
| 1 Sex M Name: Hiram Fred SMITH | Spouse |
| Born: 12 MAR 1860 | Place: Sullivan, Tioga, PA |
| Died: 29 JAN 1863 | Place: Sullivan, Tioga, PA |
| Burial Date: Jan 1863 | Cemetery: Wood Cemetery, Sullivan, Tioga PA |
| 2 Sex F Name: Helen SMITH | Spouse: Sumner WILSON |
| Born: 28 MAR 1862 | Place: Sullivan, Tioga, PA |
| Married: | Place |
| Died: 04 MAR 1915 | Place: Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, Bradford, PA |
| Burial Date:Mar 1915 | Cemetery: Baptist Hill Cemetery, Wells, Bradford, PA |
| 3 Sex M Name: Edson Willard SMITH | Spouse: Julia Sybil FARR |
| Born: 25 JAN 1865 | Place: Columbia, Bradford, PA |
| Married: 1884 | Place: Wellsburg, Ashland,Chemung, NY |
| Died: 10 MAY 1925 | Place: Elmira,Chemung, NY |
| Burial Date: MAY 1925 | Cemetery: Woodlawn, Elmira,Chemung,NY |
| 4 Sex F Name: Minnie Ermerine SMITH | Spouse: Samuel Wilbur SHERMAN |
| Born: 21 APR 1867 | Place: Sullivan, Tioga, PA |
| Married: 13 MAY 1886 | Place: Penn Yan, Yates, NY |
| Died: 21 JUN 1894 | Place: Sullivan. Tioga, PA |
| Burial Date: MAY 1925 | Cemetery: Watson Cemetery, Rutland, Tioga PA |
| 5 Sex F Name: Cora May SMITH | Spouse: Harvey L. TICE |
| Born: 02 DEC 1869 | Place: Sullivan, Tioga, PA |
| Married: 04 JUL 1886 | Place: Tioga County NY |
| Died: 22 MAY 1943 | Place: Bloss Hospital,Blossburg,Tioga, PA |
| Burial Date: 25 MAY 1943 | Cemetery: Gray Valley Cemetery, Sullivan,Tioga,PA |
| 6 Sex F Name: Maude E. SMITH | Spouse: Alfred NEWELL |
| Born: 09 JUN 1875 | Place: Sullivan, Tioga, PA |
| Married: 29 DEC 1898 | Place |
| Died: 13 JUL 1950 | Place |
| Burial Date: JUL 1950 | Cemetery: Stull Cemetery, Union, Tioga, PA |
| 7 Sex F Name: Florence A. SMITH | |
| Born: 25 SEP 1879 | Place: Sullivan, Tioga, PA |
| Died: 12 DEC 1884 | Place: Sullivan, Tioga, PA |
| Burial Date: DEC 1884 | Cemetery: Wood Cemetery, Sullivan, Tioga PA |
