Accept dear girl this block from me
As a pledge of my friendship for thee
Oxford, Oct. 3rd, 1851 Authelia Smith
Attended neighorhood Chestnut Tree Hill School in Oxford (See l887 school picture)
The house he owned was later occupied by his daughter who married Benjamin Beach, Cheshire soldier who was killed in the Civil War.
Read B. H. Davis Reminiscenses of the family here.
The Chester Smith Homestead is # 137 in Early Houses of Oxford (available from the Oxford Historical Society, Inc.)
There are many notes in Elijah B. Treat's diary of days when he "worked at Authelia's" -- apparently a kindness done for the Civil War widow.
Authelia was a near-neighbor of Harriet Crittenden Chatfield.