Maria Ward (Chapin) Smith (1819 - abt. 1842)

Born 31 May 1819 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York

Ancestors

Wife of Eli Smith — married 9 Mar 1841 (to 27 May 1842) in Rochester, Monroe, NY, USA

Died about 27 May 1842 at about age 22 in Beirut, Syria

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Biography

Maria (Chapin) Smith was a New Yorker.

Maria was a Protestant missionary.

Maria Chapin was born May 31, 1819 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York. She became the second wife of the Rev. Eli Smith, a missionary to Beirut who translated the Bible into Arabic, on March 9, 1841. She set sail from Boston on April 27, 1841 and subsequently arrived in Beirut in June 1841.

Maria's only son Charles was born on May 11, 1842. She passed away May 27,1842 in Beirut only 16 days after her only son was born.

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Sources

Eli Smith Papers Guide at Houghton Library, Harvard University :http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00061

Personnel Card for Maria W. Chapin Smith of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.^[1]

American Board in Turkey, "Personnel records for Maria W. Chapin Smith," in Digital Library for International Research Archive, Item #15617, http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/15617 (accessed August 19, 2014).

"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SYV6-JHH : accessed 2013-12-14), entry for Maria Ward /Chapin/.

Death

"The Evening Post", August 4, 1842

DEATH OF MRS. ELI SMITH. -- Private letters from the Rev. Eli Smith and Dr. De Forrest, of the Syrian mission, confirm the newspaper accounts of the death of the wife of the first named gentleman, one of the American missionaries at Beyroot.^[2]

Footnotes

1. ↑ Thank you to WikiTree user G.E. Gaffin for providing this link.
2. ↑ "The Evening Post", New York, New York, August 4, 1842, page 2, http://www.newspapers.com/clip/3210417//

Acknowledgments

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