Priscilla Smith ^{2 3}

   FamilySearch ID: 9C6N-LMM.

  Burial Notes:

Thos. Witman and Priscilla Witman share a tombstone at Pottstown Cemetery.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1860 in West Brunswick Twp., Schuylkill, PA. ² The 1860 Census records Elijah Smith, black smith, age 28. His wife Catherine is 18 (she is the sister of his first wife Pasella who died in 1857); and daughters Lizzie 3 (by Elias' first wife) and Priscilla 1. Living on the same and next census pages are these related Smiths: William, Peter Sr., Peter Jr., Joseph, John. Other neighbors are Daniel Riegel (whose daughters Pasella and Catherine married Elias Smith) and Reuben Riegel.

2. Census in 1870 in Shenandoah, Schuylkill, PA. ⁵ The 1870 census recorded in Shenandoah City: Elias Smith, blacksmith, age 40, living with wife Catharine, 29; Lizzie, 10; Pracilla, 11; and Lydia, 10. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. Elias' real estate was valued at $1,500 and personal estate $500. Elias and Catharine cannot read or write.

3. Newspaper: Lebanon Daily News: Smith's Easter Reunion., 13 Apr 1903, Lebanon, Lebanon, PA. ⁶ SMITHS' EASTER REUNION.
Mr. and Mrs. Elias Smith Have Descendants With Them.
Mr. and Mrs. Elias Smith, of 443 North Sixth street, spent a joyous Easter with their children and grand-children, the occasion being a family reunion. Not in twenty-five years had all the children and their children been at home at the same time and Sunday was a happy one for all. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Smith there were present: Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Snyder, Mayd, Bertha, Blanche, Elias and William Snyder, Allentown; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Witman, Harvey and Clark Witman, Pottstown; Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Fauber, Alice Fauber, this city; Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Smith, Russel, Lester and Miriam Smith, this city, Miss Irene Smith and Claud Smith, this city.

4. Residence: on 13 Apr 1903 in Pottstown, Montgomery, PA. ⁶

5. Newspaper: Evening Herald: Mrs. Pricilla Witman, of Pottstown, who spent a few days the guest of Mrs. B. F. Beacher, left today for Danville, where she will visit relatives before returning home., 13 Aug 1920, Shenandoah, Schuylkill, PA. ⁷ Note: Mrs. Witman is nee Priscilla Smith, the half sister of Bertha Beacher's mother, Lillian Smith.

6. Cause of Death: pulmonary tuberculosis, 30 Oct 1921, Lebanon, Lebanon, PA. ⁴

7. Newspaper: Evening Herald, 2 Nov 1921, Shenandoah, Schuylkill, PA. ⁸ Mrs. B. F. Beacher today received word of the death of her aunt, Mrs. Thomas Witman, of Pottstown. The deceased was before her marrieage Miss Priscilla Smith, a former resident of town and a member of the Methodist church. The funeral will take place Thursday with services in the Fearless Methodist church and interment in at Pottstown.

Priscilla married Thomas Witman, son of Isaac Witman and Mary Kurtz, on 18 Mar 1896 in , Montgomery, PA.¹ (Thomas Witman was born on 13 Nov 1845 in Joanna, Berks, PA,^{1 3 9} died on 9 Aug 1919 in Pottstown, Montgomery, PA ³ and was buried in Pottstown: Pottstown Cemetery, Montgomery, PA ³.)