Notes for Hannah SMITH

The following obituary notice of Hannah Smith was printed at the time of her
death, February 9, 1830:“Died in Burlington, on the 9th inst., Mrs. Hannah
Smith Pope, in the 88th year of her age. She was the relic of Gershom Pope who
died in 1810. He was a soldier of the Revolution and with him she suffered all
the privations, cares, and anxieties,incident to that interesting period of
our country. They were among the first settlers of a new country exposed. She
was a native of Sterling, Conn. Through a long life, in all her relative
duties, she supported a respectable and amiable character. Herdescendants
were twelve children, 129 grandchildren, and 115 great-grandchildren, in whole
256. She was truly a mother in Isreal.”