Ancestry of
O. Henry

Short Story Writer

Mary Smith

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of O. Henry — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 33 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Smith 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Hewett   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 30 Jan 1686 
  • Christening Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • 16 Jun 1780 
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Memento Mori Cemetery, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Porter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Jun 1711 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  David Porter (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  Mary Porter

  Lydia Porter

  John Porter

  William Porter

  Joseph Porter

  John Porter

• Sources for Mary Smith

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Baptism record for Mary Smith.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Farmington, p. 136, Marriage record for William Porter and Mary Smith.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/17/2022).
  • ⁴ Cowles, Col. Calvin Duvall, Genealogy of the Cowles Families in America, Vol. 1, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co. (1929), 38.
  • ⁵ Farnam, Charles H., History of the Descendants of John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass., New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, Printers (1889), 502.
  • ⁶ Hurlburt, Mabel S., Farmington Town Clerks and Their Times (1645-1940), Hartford, Connecticut: Press of Finlay Brothers (1943), 369.