SMITH, Bartlett Campbell II^[1]

1874 - 1949  (75 years)

• Name	SMITH, Bartlett Campbell
  Suffix	II
  Nickname	Grampa Bart
  Birth	1 Jan 1874	Columbia, ME   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  FindaGrave	FindAGrave Memorial 25573077
  Residence	1920	Gardner, MA   [3]
  	Address: Gardner State Colony
  _COLOR	6
  Death	1 Sep 1949	Steuben, ME
  	Cause: Gouldsboro
  Burial	Columbia, ME
  	Address: Columbia Cemetery
  Person ID	I20467	Puffers
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2020

  
  

  Father	SMITH, Orland Eri,   b. 1849   d. 1880 (Age 31 years)
  Mother	SMALL, Augusta A.,   b. 7 Apr 1853, Columbia, ME d. 10 Apr 1914 (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	15 Aug 1872
  Family ID	F3634	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	DORR, Bessie Graham,   b. 4 Jan 1882, Columbia, ME d. 13 Apr 1901, Columbia, ME (Age 19 years)
  Marriage	18 Oct 1899	Columbia, ME   [1, 4]
  Residence	14 Jun 1900	Columbia, ME   [2]
  Children	1. SMITH, Frances Alma,   b. 24 Jan 1901, Columbia, ME d. 18 May 1979, Canaan, CT (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F10753	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 2	THOMPSON, Lucy A.,   b. 15 Mar 1887, Rouge Bluffs, ME d. 28 Sep 1970, Jonesport, ME (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	1 Dec 1904	Addison, ME   [5]
  Residence	1910	Columbia, ME   [6]
  	Address: Saco Road
  Divorce	Bef 1915
  Children	1. SMITH, Lurline Bartlett,   b. 25 Feb 1906, Columbia, ME d. 22 Aug 2005, Milbridge, ME (Age 99 years)   2. SMITH, Merline,   b. 17 Jul 1907, Columbia, ME d. Yes, date unknown   3. SMITH, Orland Leroy,   b. 14 Jan 1908, Columbia, ME d. 15 May 1979, Gardner, MA (Age 71 years)   4. SMITH, Baby Boy,   b. 14 Dec 1908, Columbia, ME d. 15 Dec 1908, Columbia, ME (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F10755	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 3	OVER, Edith C.,   b. Abt 1886, ME d. Bef 1983, ME (Age < 96 years)
  Marriage	CA 1925	Gardner, MA
  Residence	1930	Gardner, MA
  	Address: Gardner State Colony
  Residence	1 Apr 1935	Steuben, ME   [7]
  	Address: Smithville Road
  Residence	1940	Steuben, ME   [7]
  	Address: Smithville Road
  Family ID	F10754	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

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• Notes

  According to his daughter Lurline B. Smith, B. C. Smith was a womanizer and philanderer. After his first wife Bessie died, he married Lucy Thompson (Lurline's mother). After Lucy left him, he moved to Massachusetts (ca 1920) and was employed as a boilerman at the state asylum/hospital in Gardner, MA. There he met and married Edith Over? daughter of Ebenezer? According to his daughter, Lurline, Bartie, as he was called, was hooked on morphine due to an injury he received while a lumberman. Under the influence of it, he was abusive to his first wife Bessie and threw her medicine out the window (hastening her death?). Dr. Fred Chandler, the family doctor, knew of this and offered to testify in divorce proceedings. According to Roberta Puffer, Bart and Gramma Bessie lived in a little house across the road from the Alden Worcester house, so called. On the night of Frances' birth Bart and Bessie were at the home of Roberta Puffer (then Ed Puffer's house). Later they lived in the Will Grant house, so called, about half-way down Saco Hill on the right. Bessie died there.

  
  

• Sources

  [S500] Maine Marriage Records, 1705-1922. Birth date: abt 1874 Birth place: Marriage date: 1 Dec 1904 Marriage place: Addison [S304] _1900 United States Federal Census. [S306] _1920 United States Federal Census. [S198] Maine Marriages 1892-1996 (except 1967 to 1976 ). [S934] Maine Marriage Index, 1670-1921. [S444] _1910 United States Federal Census. [S437] _1940 United States Federal Census.