Person:Mary Smith (1134)

Watchers
m. 17 Aug 1794
  1. Mary Estabrook Smith1795 - 1837
  2. Henry Smith1797 - 1866
  3. Elizabeth Gilbert Smith1799 -
  4. Sarah Noyes Smith1800 -
  5. William Smith1803 -
  6. Hezekiah Smith1805 -
  7. Andrew Smith1807 -
m. 22 Apr 1819
  1. Eliza Ann Wright1819 -
  2. Mary Rice Wright1821 -
  3. Sarah Smith Wright1823 -
  4. Eugene Wright1825 - 1875
  5. Henry Wright1828 - 1828
  6. Nancy Bridge Wright1829 - 1834
  7. Marcus Anthony Wright1831 - 1834
  8. Ellen Wright1833 -
Facts and Events
Name Mary Estabrook Smith
Gender Female
Birth[2] 29 Jan 1795 Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 22 Apr 1819 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Anthony Wright
Death[1] 8 Jan 1837 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Burial? Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Personal History

Mary Estabrook Smith (1795-1837)

The son of Anthony Wright and Mary Estabrook (Smith) Wright, Eugene Wright (1825-1875), was a cousin with William Henry Leland (WHL) Smith (1824-1889). Together, they built an oil refinery in the height of the oil boom in the 1860's in Corry, Pennsylvania soon after oil was first discovered nearby. The business collapsed in the wake of JD Rockefeller's Standard Oil expansion which may have contributed to his suicide at age 50. Following is their relationship as cousins.

Eugene Wright and WHL Smith are cousins through their mutual grandparents Hezekiah Smith and Mary Rice (married 17 Aug 1794).

  • Henry Smith (b. 1797) and Maria Leland had William HL Smith (b. 1824).
  • Mary E. Smith (b. 1795) and Anthony Wright had Eugene Wright (b. 1825).
References
  1. Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1891)
    p. 350.

    Mary E. Wright wife of Capt. Anthony Wright died Jan. 8th, 1837. [aged 42. g.s.]
    [Birth about 1795]

  2. Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
    p. 134.

    SMITH, Mary Estabrook, d. Hezekiah and Mary, [born] Jan. 29, 1795.

  3.   Find A Grave: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA, in Find A Grave
    Mrs Mary E. Wright.

    In memory of
    MRS. MARY E.
    wife of Mr.
    Anthony Wright,
    who died
    Jan. 8, 1837,
    AEt. 42.