Clarissa Montfort (Fay) Hill Smith (1845 - 1881)

Born 10 Jul 1845 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Francis Hill Smith — married 25 Jul 1874 in West New Brighton, Straten Island, NY

Descendants

Died 16 Feb 1881 at age 35 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Clara is named for her maternal Gramma, Clarissa Montfort Shellman

The only proof for her father is the marriage record for Samuel Howard and Susan Shellman, because he passed before the 1850 census.

Biography

1850 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Age 20

Birth Year (Estimated) 1830

Birthplace Georgia

House Number 2276

Susan Fay F 42 Georgia

Anna M Fay F 22 Georgia

Hannah E Fay F 20 Georgia

Wm G Fay M 11 Georgia

Susan E Fay F 7 Georgia

Clara M Fay F 5 Massachusetts

John H Wilcox M 25 Georgia

Ann Loclann F 32 Ireland

Maria Dunn F 25 Ireland

Eliza Taffe F 17 Ireland

Citing this Record

1870 P.O. New York, 15th Dist. New York

Age 42

Birth Year (Estimated) 1827-1828

Birthplace Georgia

Page Number 47

Susan Fay F 60 Georgia

Anna W Fay F 42 Georgia

Clara Fay F 24 Massachusetts

Mary Lyons F 23 Ireland

Kate Torls F 17 Ireland

Citing this Record

Married Frank Hill Smith in West New Brighton, Straten Island, NY, on July 25, 1874.B Dies in childbirth to 4th child Clarence. Clara's older sister Anna Maria Fay raised their four children; Rosamond, Montfort, Frank Fay, & Clarence.

Sources

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fayfamily/clara_montfort.html
• FindAGrave
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M685-J4L : 12 April 2016), Hannah E Fay in household of Susan Fay, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States; citing family 3287, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

1880 census says she was born in New York.

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M869-QHM : 12 April 2016), Anna W Fay in household of Susan Fay, New York, United States; citing p. 47, family 268, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,508.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHXV-BKT : 11 August 2016), Clara Smith in household of Frank H Smith, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district ED 641, sheet 294B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0554; FHL microfilm 1,254,554.
• Find-A-Grave Memorial #119013787 in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. Plot: Cedar Avenue - Lot 95