OUR SMITH FAMILY STORY PART TWO by Lorena May Smith Stahlbaum, my Aunt. 4/24/2009

My mother's father was Richard Lippard, her mother Mary Anne Snook Lippard. They were born near Liverpool, England, I believe, came to Cheboygan in 1884. My mother, Fannie Elizabeth Esther Lippard was born in London, England (also) April 16, 1883, so was an infant when she arrived in America. Her father was a sailmaker with plenty of work for the ships that were still sailing the Great Lakes. Also in the family was a son, Samuel Lippard, and another daughter, Anna. My mother always wished she had been called by another one of her names because she said that every horse, dog, cow, and cat were called Fannie at that time. It was really a diminutive for Frances. At Aunt Ellen's and Uncle Jim's boarding house Mama worked with their daughter, Jennett and her husband, Martin Hicks, who did the cooking and helped manage the place. They had a son Leroy and a daughter, Irene were closer to Mama's age, as Papa was fifteen years older than she was. Mama must have been about eighteen, Papa 33 when they married. A daughter, Ellen, was born to them in 1904, a son, Richard in 1905. Both died of pneumonia as infants. In those days, in those areas, with few doctor and no miracle drugs many babies did not survive.