St Woolos Parish Church Newport St Woolos Church in 1851 Smith headstone Lehi City Cemetery Images from Rayna Rogerson Smith headstone at base Home of John Y Smith Lehi Utah

Children of Jesse SMITH m 1861 Mary Ann PRICE 6. Jesse SMITH b 14 May 1836 Pensford, Somerset, England, d 1890 (death year is wrong) s/o George SMITH/Mary FLOWER SMITH [Submitted to IGI Film Number 1239611] Also Jesse SMITH chr 19 Jun 1836 Publow, Somerset s/o George SMITH/Mary [Submitted to IGI Batch Number 7408410 Sheet 55] Jesse SMITH died 13 Nov 1915 79 yrs Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA, bur 16 Nov 1915 Lehi City Cemetery (Jean Crowther) [headstone] Jesse SMITH m1. 19 Oct 1861 St Woolos, Monmouth, England, Mary Ann PRICE [marr cert provided by Jean Crowther via Wayne Sinclair] Jesse SMITH m2. 10 Oct 1906 Sarah Ann KILLBERRY b 14 May 1857, d 30 Dec 1947 aged 90 yrs d/o Thomas John KILLBERRY (b 1831) and Sarah Anne JARROTT (b 1835), bur Lehi Cemetery [headstone image provided by Rayna Rogerson] 1861 Marriage in the Parish of St Woolos, County of Monmouth, Registration District of Newport Jesse SMITH, Full age, Bachelor, Labourer, Residence: St Woolos, Father: George SMITH, Labourer, m 19 Oct 1861 in the Parish Church according to the rites and ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns by E J HAWKINS, Vicar, Mary Ann PRICE, Full age, Spinster, Residence: St Woolos, Father: Charles PRICE, Mason. Both signed in the presence of James ROBERTS (hisXmark) and Frances GREGORY (hisXmark) [Entry 164 certificate provided by JC via WS] Mary Ann PRICE b 15 Feb 1838 Cwrm Avon, Trevethin, Pontypool, Monmouth, England d/o Charles PRICE/Ann HARRIS. (Mary Ann always believed her birthday to be 20 Jan but Jean Crowther has a copy of her Somerset House birth certificate. She was the daughter of Charles Price and Ann Harris and is found with them in the 1841 and 1851 census of Trevethin but the family moved to Machen before she met Jesse.) (JC) Mary Ann SMITH d 29 Mar 1905 aged 67 yrs Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA, bur Lehi City Cemetery [headstone image RR] Emigration to USA 1866 Jesse, Mary Ann and their six-week old son, Jesse Jnr, emigrated to America on the ship John Bright out of Liverpool 30 April 1866. Cost £4 6s for adults, 20s for infant. They crossed the plains in the 'Henry Chipman' Company leaving from Wyoming Nebraska on 13 July 1866 and arriving 15 Sep 1866 in the Salt Lake Valley. They settled in Lehi about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City and lived there the rest of their lives. [British Mission Emigration Records #6184] George COMER and his wife Mary Ann had emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1865 but joined her brother Jesse and Mary Ann somewhere before Nebraska and were in the same pioneer company. They also settled in Lehi where the two families were life-long friends (George COMER was Jesse's childhood friend from Pensford). (JC) Ten children of Jesse SMITH and Mary Ann PRICE: 1. Infant son born and died at birth in Machen in 1862, birth or death not recorded. Grandmother of Jean Crowther thought he would have been named Jesse (JC) 2. Infant son born and died at birth in Machen in 1864, birth or death not recorded, also would have been named Jesse. When Jean Crowther's grandmother visited Machen in the late 1920s she took a photo of an area in the back of the cemetery of St John the Baptist Church in Machen with the inscription 'my two baby brothers are buried here'. Their parent's tombstone in the Lehi Cemetery lists their births and deaths (JC) 3. Jesse SMITH b 12 Feb 1866 Machen, Monmouth, Wales, d 28 Feb 1868 aged 2 yrs of diphtheria, Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA (JC) [headstone RR] 1866 Birth in the Registration District of Mynyddislwyn, in the Sub-district of Mynyddislwyn, County of Monmouth Jesse SMITH born 12 Feb 1866 Chatham, Machen Upper, Father: Jesse SMITH, Collier, Mother: Mary Ann SMITH formerly PRICE, Informant: The X mark of Jesse SMITH, Father, Chatham, Machen Upper, Registered 25 Mar 1866, David JONES, Registrar [Entry No 59 certificate provided by JC via WS] 4. Charles SMITH b 1 June 1868 Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA, d 7 June 1868 of a birth defect (JC) [headstone RR] 5. George Alfred SMITH (known as Alfred) b 11 Sep 1869 Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA, d 23 Jan 1931 Lehi, m1. Clara Anderson (son LeRoy b 1901), as a widower m2. Emma Ann FENTON (3 dau, 1 son Alfred Fenton SMITH) (JC) 6. John Y SMITH b 30 Jan 1872 Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA, d 21 Aug 1953 (JC) poss m Sarah Jane JONES. 7. Sarah Ann SMITH b 9 May 1874 Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA, d 1 Jan 1950 (JC) 8. Mary Rachael SMITH b 18 April 1876 Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA, d 30 Jun 1953 (JC), m 29 Jun 1898 Lehi, German Edgar ELLSWORTH [IGI Batch Number A186206] 9. Joseph Frederick SMITH b 26 Sep 1878 Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA, d 28 Dec 1941 (JC) Joseph F SMITH b 27 Sep 1879, d 28 Dec 1941 aged 62 yrs, bur Lehi Cemetery [headstone RR] Joseph Frederick SMITH m Jennie TEASDALE b 29 Jan 1884, d 7 Nov 1933 aged 49 yrs, bur Lehi Cemetery [headstone RR] 10. Jesse Norman SMITH b 28 Jun 1881 Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA, d 29 June 1938 (JC) bur Lehi Cemetery [headstone RR] More information from Jean Crowther: The loss of her first four sons greatly impacted Mary Ann's life. Grandmother said she had a lovely voice and sang solos and in choirs in castles, churches and cathedrals in Wales but after her four babies died she seldom sang. Children of George SMITH m 1823 Mary FLOWER © Created : 18 October 2007 © Last Modified : 3 December 2023 Email : juniperballarat@gmail.com URL : http://juniperballarat.net/public_html/gen/smith/smi_pri.html