Merton Smith, Tenterfield, NSW FFF

Name: Merton Smith
Date and place of birth: 25th November, 1839 at “Merton” on the Hunter River, New South Wales (now near Denman)
(Parents and older siblings arrived Sydney, New South Wales on 2nd October 1838 on “The Coromandel” )
Names of parents: Robert Smith and Henrietta Driver
Date and place of baptism: 2nd February 1840 “Merton” Hunter River,NSW
Marriage: 8th October 1861 at “Moleville” near Grafton, New South Wales to Sarah Ware
Occupation: Stockman and Grazier; renowned horseman and bushman; Tenterfield community civic leader; respected by Aboriginal elders, as he understood and respected their culture and spoke a number of Aboriginal languages
Military service: Nil
Addresses where he lived: Born on Ogilvies Station “Merton” on Hunter River, NSW; grew up Jerry’s Plains, Hunter River and Smith’s Family Inn and Cheviot Hills property near Fairfield, in Northern NSW; worked as stockman at” Moleville” near Grafton prior to marriage; purchased “Cheviot Hills South”, on the Rocky River near Fairfield, (Drake) in Northern NSW; then about 1873 also purchased “Merton Villa” on the edge of Tenterfield NSW
Date, place and cause of death: 30th October 1916, Merton Villa, Tenterfield, pneumonia & pleurisy
Date and place of burial: Row J Lot 13 Old Church of England Section of Tenterfield Cemetery
Details of will: Need to find my copy - extensive obituary
Memorial inscription: BLACK MARBLE PILLAR/OBELISK – Wording:
IN LOVING + + MEMORY OF
MERTON SMITH
DIED 30TH OCT 1916
AGED 76 YEARS
JUST AS I AM OF THAT FREE LOVE,
THE BREADTH, LENGTH, DEPTH,
AND HEIGHT TO PROVE,
HERE FOR A SEASON THEN ABOVE,
O LAMB OF GOD! I COME.
Children: 14 children – 2 died as babies, 2 before maturity. Adela Mary 1862, Henrietta Sarah 1863, George Ernest 1864, Merton Andrew David 1866, Emmeline Eliza 1868, Isabel Lucy Emma 1869, William Harry 1871, Elizabeth Mignonette (Eveline Lisette) 1872, Ernest Charles Ware 1874, Walter Harold Driver 1875, Leonard Hubert Lionel 1878, Edgar Cecil John 1880, Adrian Stuart 1882, Raymond Stanley 1884