George Melvin Smith & Mary Wedman, My GG-Grandparents

George was born January 13, 1840 in Milltown, ME or Nova Scotia, and died 
January 15, 1885 in Milltown,Washington, Maine.  He married MARY WEDMAN 
August 08, 1861 in First Baptist Church, Calais, Washington, Maine,
daughter of CHARLES WEDMAN and JANE LAMBERT. Mary was born February 22,
1842 in Oak Bay or Bayside, New Brunswick, and died February 05, 1929
in Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

George Melvin Smith was about 8 years old when his father Isaiah died, at that point he
went to work to help support the family.

George built his house (between 1861-1864) on School Street in Milltown,ME in which
Julia and Charles were Born. This building burned in the late 1870's and George started
another on the same site; about 1879 the family moved into their new but unfurnished
home. This home remained until the late 1920's until it burned again.  George was a 
devout Christain and when the family gathered for devotions on Christmas day he read
to them the parable of the man who "built his house upon the rock" (Matt 7:24-29).

Mortally injured in a mill explosion in Milltown, Washington, Maine the day after 
Christmas 1884, George died two weeks later on Jan 15, 1885.  He is buried in Calais
Cemetary Block 56, Lot 3 EA (Calais, Washington, Maine).

Notes by Stacey Tash, cmstacey@comcast.net