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Grandpa (5G) Benjamin reached a Biblically respectable age, and 5G Grandma Ruth Snow Smith seems to have survived her husband by a number of years. The vital records list two local widows named Ruth Smith, one of whom died in 1822 and the other in 1826. If either of these is ours, she lived to 96 or 100 years of age.
If Grandma Ruth had a gravestone here, it has not survived. Her name does appear on her son Elkins’ marker, (see below) and other family members share space in this and other area cemeteries. In particular, the Center Cemetery includes a number of
descendants of Grandpa Benjamin’s brothers, 6GU Solomon Smith (1715-1790) and 6GU Phineas Smith (1728-1786) who appear to have come from Eastham at about the same time.
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