FROM: HISTORICAL GAZETTEER AND BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL OF CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NY, ed. By WILLIAM ADAMS, pub 1893
Chapter: Town of Conewango
Page 511-523

SURNAMES: SMITH, EDWARDS, ROWE, MAYO, OSBORNE, KNAPP, LINDSLEY, ROBERTS, BUSHNELL, BIGELOW

Isaac Smith, son of Isaac, was born Nov. 1, 1791, in Milford, Conn. He came to this State in the spring of 1814, married Elizabeth, daughter of Alanson and Elizabeth Edwards, of Skaneateles, NY, April 1, 1817, and in 1827 removed to Napoli, then little more than a wilderness. They built a log house and commenced farming, where they remained until 1865, when they moved to Conewango to live with their son Thaddeus. Elizabeth Smith died April 9, 1866, at the age of sixty-nine years; Isaac Smith died Feb. 20, 1883. They were members of the Presbyterian Church. The eldest son, Edward Smith, was born Dec. 30, 1817, and married, April 4, 1847, Eveline Rowe; James Henry Smith, born April 18, 1819, married Sarah Mayo, June 10, 1844; William Clark Smith, born April 16, 1821, married Mary Ann Osborne, Aug. 28, 1853; a son born April 30, 1823, died same day; Elizabeth Smith, born Aug. 9, 1824, married Stephen C. Knapp, June 15, 1846; Ann Smith, born Feb. 27, 1828, married Harvey Lindsley; Melissa Edwards Smith, born Aug. 20, 1830, married Albert Roberts, Oct. 14, 1850; Cynthia Smith, born Aug. 21, 1832, married Elias Bushnell; and Thaddeus C. Smith, born Aug. 15, 1836, married Mary J. Bigelow, NOV. 29, 1864, and has had two children-Frank Clayton Smith, born Sept. 8, 1865, died Sept. 15, 1889, and Ralph Bigelow Smith, born March 15, 1868. Edward Smith is a prominent schoolteacher in Syracuse, NY., having been superintendent of the city schools twenty-three years.