... George Smith son of George the 2nd Married Mary Barbara Martin.
G.S. was born July 26 1780, his wife Nov. 22nd 1781. They had six
children two sons and four daughters. He was a carpenter by trade.
The Lutheran steeple in Emmitsburg Md. stands today as firm as the
day he completed it in the year 1815 with prospect of its standing for
centuries to come.
He changed his business to that of a merchant and did business in the
storeroom corner of Main Street and Lutheran Church Alley, owned
the house and store, living in the house. Later he purchased the
property known as the Hyder lot corner of Square, a large brick house
and store room combined, into which he moved in the Spring of 1817.
He was a jovial man, a very stout built man, few better developed men
of the town. Like all others, his life must have an end. When, where,
or how is only known after their demise. The subject of this narrative
went fishing at night. He contracted a cold which settled on his lungs.
He declined so perceptibly that his friends became alarmed. All
efforts to cure proved of no avail. A few weeks prior to his death his
daughter Margaret (afterward Mrs. H. Beam) accompanied him to
Arendtsville Adams Co Pa to see a Physician there who had a
reputation for pulminory diseases, but all to no avail, as he died Oct
30th 1817 was brought home, and buried from the house he so recently
purchased, and expected to enter on a successful business career.
Here is illustrated and fulfilled the saying, Man proposes, God
disposes.
His widow purchased the property (now owned and occupied by
Margaret Smith widow of his Son Eli) where she raised her family. ...
