... Lewis Smith married twice, first to Elizabeth Eichelberger of Frederick County Md, second to Catharine Ann Baugher of Adams County, Pa. He married his first wife in 1810, his second in 1826. By the first he had six children, by the second, one daughter. He was a good man, meek and lowly, always exemplifying a Christian spirit. Morning and evening his voice ascended in prayer and praise at the family alter. It was said of him, truly, he was a good man.
George, His first child was born 1812, extremely gifted and Sensitive, a heart overflowing with kindness and trust. At 21 years he became a wreck never to be himself again, shattered nervous system. At that age, he became a partner in a wholesale dry good house in Baltimore, Md. the particulars as follows. His father was deceived by a life long friend and next door neighbor, Tobias Nixdorf. He had been a merchant in Georgetown where George F. had clerked for him for four years. Nixdorf went to Baltimore and entered into partnership with a Mr. Hager, the firm being Nixdorf & Hager. Seeing that the firm was nearly bankrupt he induced Lewis Smith to take his place in the firm, he selling his interest in it to him at a high cash price. George F. was 21 years old. His father put him in the store, only to grapple with rascality and villianny {villainy} at that tender age. It was not long before Lewis Smith was startled by the news that Hager had decamped with all the cash funds, leaving George F the idol of all that knew him, with liabilities to a large amount. Thus in one hour he found all that he had amassed with much care swept away and the debts of a bankrupt firm to pay. The shock was too great on George F. He became despondent, he was advised to take a rest from business cares. He went to Texas to get away from this care and recuperate, where he spent the following years of his life, and died in 1853, is buried amongst strangers in that far away state. ...
