Deputy Smith’s Oath Certificate. Strafford County High Sheriff John H. Pingree swore in Charles E. Smith as his deputy on July 8, 1889. This photo shows the actual appointment document and was taken form the files of the Strafford County Superior Court Clerk. Deputy Smith’s signature appears after the Oath of Office.

continued to receive the $8.00 a month pension payment until she remarried Walter Lewis Beebe and it was dropped on August 6, 1901.
     The federal pension file provided a description of Private Smith. He was reported to be 5 feet, 10 and 1/4 inches in height, had light complexion, brown hair and blue eyes.
    The 18th New Hampshire listed 3 members of its regiment killed in battle, 34 died as a result of disease, accidents or causes not recorded, and 6, including Private Charles E. Smith, were discharged for disability.
    The census for the Town of Barrington in June of 1870 listed Charles E. Smith living with his parents and brothers. His father, Winthrop L. was said to be 50 at the time and a farmer. His mother, Nancy was 48 and was “keeping house. Charles was 26 at the time and his occupation was listed to be “works for shoe factory.” His brothers, all younger, were recorded as Winthrop E., 21 and a “farm laborer,” William H., 19 “working for shoe factory,” Lewis W., 16 and a “farm laborer,” Walter H., 12 “at

school” and Wilson W., age and occupation unlisted.
  The next identifiable record of Deputy Smith’s early life was recorded in the Town of Barrington on June 17, 1876, when he married a 25-year-old schoolteacher by the name of Ellen J. Decateur, also of Barrington. Smith was 31 years old and his occupation on the marriage certificate listed him as a “shoemaker” and that prior to this marriage both he and his new bride were “single”. Federal Pension Records cited the marriage as being held in Dover, NH on June 20, 1876 and the ceremony being conducted by the Reverend Ezra Haskell. The Reverend Haskell later conducted Deputy Smith's funeral ceremony. The marriage resulted in the birth of one son, Jasper L. being born in about 1879. This son died on September 13, 1880 at the age of 2 years from what was listed as the cause of death on his death certificate to be “severe seals”. This son, and the only known child of the union between Charles and Ellen Smith, is buried in the Cater Cemetery in the Town of Barrington alongside his mother and father.
    The town census for Barrington taken in 1880 listed the Smith family as living in that town, Charles E. being 36 years of age, Ellen J. being 29, and their son, Jasper being age 1.
    As previously declared, Charles E. Smith became a prominent citizen in his hometown. He was active in several fraternal orders such as the Order of Odd Fellows and the Ivanhoe Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle. At the time of his death in 1891, Smith had been the Town Clerk for the Town of Barrington, and was at the time the elected representative to the New Hampshire Legislature, was one of the Selectmen, was the Collector of Taxes for the previous 3 years, and had been appointed as a Deputy Sheriff for the County of Strafford for 6 years. Accounts surrounding his death listed him as being in the lumber business and grocery business with a William Waterhouse. The official death certificate signed by Dr. William Waterhouse listed his death to be as a result of a “bullet wound from pistol through pelvic region - gangrene.” è