Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-30
NOTED FAMILY GATHERING
Was That OF the Famous Smith
Family ofNew Jersey.
OF CURIOUS FAMILY ODDITIES.
A Lewiston, M, wemnn HAS IT chill
dren, ioa grandchildren and .2s
Grcat-crandchiid


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ono ~ ,he ,nos, w.,..n
rnthsrin,s nr * ,"",sN"p,e fanny
pnrt,e,,inr ,r,n.,' ~, M. VI
widely ,,rcad e,n,.,,. 'v s,eAs uno
DAYS or tha ssyarsss,,,. !" wv 'Ar'y
tain peter smith Ia, ,i,,,''1 : g.
tied IN New .farsny ,,,,,~. NV ~
pered ana bcca,,,, a., ~ p,"s
noiirlshis- e,,n,,, -
,.,a. Siui'hH every
80 nat Two hundred and
ntN lis descendants have heie
az IN, homestead, where the head
OF the family rnsidas a., -. .s'e
On me last recorded occasion OF this
meet no fewer than hive thousand
ak hundred and fortv.ae,,o,, e,,,,,,,.
nut In nm npnoor,,,.,. ,. '''s
whom ,a. ,s. SN.'s one OF
was descendant OF "old
inter
AZ ten O'Clock In tho ,ror,,,., a..
order wna giv.,, ~, -, 80 '''''h NV
.,,at,., 49,. W eNetS smith 10
a,.s .'',sH WIN every other smith"
anu, considering the numbcrR. IL may
well be supposed that thcrc was s,me
pretty lively action tntl ,hn nrno...
OF sa,ntetto,, ,,.,,. -. -, ~ f'SNes'
sN"'"uuh was over ana done with,
WIZ uhtll one o'clcck, and even
then, no doubt thcro were a good many
Of the possible combination. isft ,,.o.
upoompiet,d ,,h,n ~, 49,. 49,
,,,,, .',,,, M"Vn Wv "lhner hour
'.u'utu anu the active party aat
down To dinner NJ long tablcs ret ~ in
the hprlo orchard. Everyboay bhd Il,
call his nelahhnr M, "a. az,
rool,,. NJ, ,,r'.,,'.. "ls' m'l'e'
iSun.l surname. The oldest Smith was
uNne,N'tN ana t'a youngest fuur
months, anu al, young and Old, made
g point OF pansug through the IA
home end panslns FOR momont by
,,i 1ld hg'sts ehar etlll b0pt In its
place
n very curious bit ~ family history
Va thht tod Of the daughter OF sir
STEPHEN luN.grandfAther Of the famous
Charles james Fox. involving the at
htHl night impossible statement that
twp sisters should die ut dis
tance OF i7Q years from each
nthrr neither of whom lived 10 nm tn
credible ng0. Vet this abatement coq-
tlina no catch N figures, but IL literally
true OF the ladies IN question Sir Ste
phen married first In 1854, and the fol-
lowing rear n little gitl was born. who
died In the same year 1Gh5, He had
other children, who gruw w and mar
RED but most ~ these unlona proving
oltldlcrs, ana hlr stephen heng IN.
VIKING thOt hla great estate should
pass out " Ms family he married
nNaln, ana his last daughter was born
III iiGN She lived 10 the axe uf NS. and
dled In 1888, no fewer than no year,
after the death OF her eldest sister
Ihat = lady who may have seen Quren
Nlctoiln should have had q sister who
miBht have been looked NJ by Oliver
Cromwell, " one OF those curiosltlcH Of
thn feglster once which, though un
nctnal inct would seem far too daring
for the ho'dcst roinanoer TO venture to
make use OF,
IL IL stated TINT, IN vienna, twins
were once reHlsterod ~ having been
Dorm IN different years. The trat
was born on the 3lst OF December.
lNs-' anu the second on the Int OF Jnnu-
nry lMH, a curious result II that, ps
th1y npih happaned To be boys, they
WIN nave 70 do thcir military service
IN tWo uWctent years, ns the one VIII
he gunAldrred 20 have reached the age
OF ~ ~ l'la ana tho other In 1913,
Iho nllsialon OF o Spanlsh gentlc-
man VINO having made nus fortune In
AlncrlNh' Iee,nily returned 10 BARGE
lonn TO Hpcnd the evening OF his days
IN nus nnilNe lHnd' reaombled nothing
30 murh nh tho Hetting out OF Jacob
ana all his family for Egypt For thla
modern patriarch, aged %, has sixteen
dnuEhirrs, tWenty-threr sons, thirty
four Ernnddnughtern.f orty-seven grand.
sons, furty-lve great granddnuRhtcrs,
thlrty.nluo greHt grandnonH, thrCn great
great groat-grandsons, aud seventy two
siepsonu ana daughters. and the whole
family futntinu pl1 Rupuafu fuf,k gh.fr
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