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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
per FInd-a-Grave: "This cemetery has nothing left, even the historical marker is missing. Many years ago it was plowed over to be used as farmland and now all is lost"
Author: Richard Eugene Smith
Catherine Smith was born at Pennsylvania about 1730. She married Peter Smith, who died in 1773, about 1750. They had a daughter Catherine, born circa 1754, and a son, John, enlisted as a private in Thompson's First Rifle Regiment under Captain John Lowdon in 1775.
Catherine and Peter had land near the mouth of White Deer Creek. Catherine started building "a grist and saw mill" in 1774. The mill was completed in 1775. In later years Smith's Mills became Candor's Mills.
In the summer of 1776, Catherine added a "boring-mill" to produce gun barrels for the Continental Army. In July 1779, the mills were burned in an attack, with one man killed.
Catherine died 3 July 1829, while residing at White Deer Township.
References:
John Blair Linn: "Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvnia, 1755-1765," Pg. 50, 60, 80, 90, 175, 195.
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