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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: September 5, 2015
Caption: Interlocking Ties
Additional Description: Margaret Spear's marriage to Sam Smith in 1778 linked several generations of Baltimore's leading Scots-Irish families, the Spears, Smiths, and Buchanans. Margaret's grandfather, Irish-born John Spear, came to America with his uncle, Robert Buchanan, in 1720. Buchanan's daughter, Molly, was Sam Smith's mother. Margaret Spear Smith (1759-1842), depicted here after Sam's death, was buried in this vault in 1842.

Margaret Spear Smith by William Edward West, oil on canvas, ca. 1839-1841 The Maryland Historical SocietyClose-up of painting on marker
Submitted: September 7, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p327670
File Size: 1.292 Megabytes

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