Alpheus Smith

1801 - 1842  (41 years)

• Name	Alpheus Smith
  Born	1801	of, Ontario   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-112474
  Died	10 Jan 1842  [1, 2, 3]
  Buried	Winterbourne Presbyterian Cemetery, Winterbourne, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Person ID	I112474	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Captain Thomas Smith,   b. 14 Nov 1767, , Massachusetts ,   d. 15 Apr 1850, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Mary Weaver,   b. 20 Aug 1778, of, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 5 Nov 1845, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F12721	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna Weaver,   b. 1800, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Mary "Polly" Smith,   b. 1828, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Mar 1901, Winterbourne, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 73 years)   2. Willard C. Smith,   b. 18 Jan 1831, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 23 Mar 1862  (Age 31 years)   3. Elvira Smith,   b. 1833, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 17 Aug 1856  (Age 23 years)   4. Alpheus Smith,   b. 1837, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F28499	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  High up on the hill, on the east side of the road and north of Cox's Creek at Winterbourne, there is a log house on the same site as a former one. It was here, at the home of Alpheus Smith, that the prayer meeting was being held, on a Sunday evening, during which Alpheus Smith's father, the old captain fell to the floor unconscious and remained in that state until the following Sunday when he died. Alpheus Smith married Ann Weaver, from Ancaster, and it was their daughter Mary, or Polly, a life long resident of Winterbourne, who told me the story of Captain Smith, which she alone could tell, and that but three weeks before her death.1a The Early History of Elora, Ontario, and Vicinity by John R. Connon

  
  

• Sources

  [S417] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - Winterbourne Presbyterian CC#4597 Internet Link. In Memory Of / Alpheus Smith / Who Died / Jan'y. 10th 1842 / Aged 40 Years / [Verse Illegible] / [S144] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 4. [S915] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1861, Township of Woolwich 1861 Div. 7 Page 67.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1801 - of, Ontario Buried - - Winterbourne Presbyterian Cemetery, Winterbourne, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth