Hazel Leona Sutton Smith

Born 29 June 1898 at Wyoming County, Pennsylvania

Died 31 March 1989 at Roscoe, Sullivan County, New York

Hazel was the daughter of George E. Sutton and Ada May “Addie” Terry Sutton. She was raised at Eaton, Pennsylvania where her father was a railroad tie maker. The family relocated to Tompkins, New York about 1905 where her father was a mill sawyer. The family relocated again about 1910 to Walton, New York where her father purchased their home at 77 High Street and was the proprietor of a saw mill. Hazel was a resident of De Lancey, New York when she married to Harold Amasa Smith on 10 September 1917 at the parsonage of Northfield Church at Northfield, New York. He was a cheese maker at Bovina, New York. They resided first with her husband’s parents at Bovina but soon relocated to Sterlington, New York. Sterlington is a hamlet in the town of Ramapo near Sloatsburg, New York. At this place, her husband was employed at Skyland Farms. They resided there only a couple of years before relocating to 20 High Street at Walton. About 1957, they relocated to Beers Brook at Walton. Hazel and Harold were the parents of six children; Glenon Marie Smith, Gertrude Maye Smith, twins Reva Leah Smith and Reta Letha Smith, Dorothy Nedra Smith, and the youngest daughter still living. Hazel was buried next to her husband in a Smith family plot at Walton Cemetery. She was the wife of my fourth cousin twice removed.

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