STEPHEN E. SMITH (1896)
Ellen MANGAN prior to marriage 1888
STEPHEN SMITH
Born:Mar.11,1864 Eganville,Ont.
Died:Nov.1,1953 Sault Ste. Marie,Ont.
and
ELLEN MANGAN SMITH
Born:June4,1865,Maynooth,Ont.
Died:Dec.9,1945,Sault Ste.Marie,Ont.
Steve and Nellie fell in love and married in Maynooth,Ont.
Nov.1,1888. They settled in Barry's Bay,Ont. and started
to raise a family of fifteen children.Steve worked as a
carpenter and also at various times was a Justice of the Peace,
a Game Warden,and a Sherriff.Life was tough and a doctor
was not always available for births or illness.Sometimes
they had to go get him by horse and buggy through
the snow.Steve and Nellie were strong,caring and loving
parents but life dealt them hard and they lost nine
children either at birth or else to various
 childhood diseases.After the last four of her children
were taken at the same time by a flu epedemic,it was too hard
on Nellie to keep looking out her window and seeing the graves
of her children,and since the two oldest,Eva and Jim,
 had married and moved away,Steve and Nellie decided to move
with the rest of their children, to Sault Ste.Marie Ont.where
Steve's sisters lived. There he continued to work as a carpenter
building churches and houses.
Steve was a big man and Nellie was a very small
woman with a big heart.They made a great and loving couple.
We are their legacy........we are their descendants
and WE ARE ALL ONE FAMILY!!!!
The information that I have compiled so far is incomplete.
Please forgive any errors or ommissions. Any corrections
to dates or spelling of names or additional information
that anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Please send to:
Steve Conway
Email: catsteven@cogeco.ca
I sincerely hope that no one feels that this is an intrusion into
their privacy. In creating this website and compiling this information,
I am trying to create a sense of family, a history of us and who we are
and what we belong to, both for us and for future generations.
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