Catharine McCord Smith (1803-1874)

Catharine McCord Smith, born in 1803, was the daughter of Revolutionary War veteran James Trowbridge of Bedford, who served in Colonel James Holmes' Regiment in 1775 and the following year under captains Elijah Hunter and Samuel Lawrence. In 1820 she married James McCord, also the son of a Revolutionary War veteran, whose family owned a farm of more than 200 acres above the village of Sing Sing, and they had three children, Sarah, James, and Hannah, before James died in 1826. After joining the Methodist Church in 1827, she raised her children as a widow within the large McCord family. In 1854 she married Captain Isaac C. Smith, a successful Hudson River ship builder and river captain known as the Father of Sing Sing Methodism; she had known the Smith family through the church, and seven years earlier her daughter Hannah had married Isaac's son Malcolm, who later became Westchester County Clerk. Catharine and Isaac spent 20 years together before her death in 1874, and she was buried with her first husband, James McCord, while Captain Smith was buried three years later with his first wife nearby.

Ossining, New York · United States