Daughter of Nathan Woodruff, Sally came with her family from Connecticut, and rode all the way on horseback carrying a weaver's reed on her lap, which she afterwards made good use of in the new settlement. In 1821, she spun and wove the cloth for her husband George Smith's fine suit to wear in the legislature at Albany as the first representative in the new County of Livingston.
She was tall, of fair complexion with dark brown hair and blue eyes, of cheerful and benevolent disposition and ever ready with sympathy and relief for the suffering of others. She had a strong constitution and good health naturally.
However, she was bitten by a rattlesnake at the age of 19 while crossing a field in Livonia; the poison "rankled in her system ever afterwards." (Botsford Genealogy, Faucher and Botsford, 1977)
"Her life was saved, but regularly, every year thereafter, on the day of the month on which the bite was inflicted, the symptoms of the poisoning violently returned. The part bitten, her ankle, became black and swollen, and the entire leg was affected by it. The paroxysms of pain that followed the original injection of the poison reappeared and the victim suffered terribly. The symptoms gradually grew less violent during the day, and on the day following, entirely disappeared. These visitations became more violent every year, and on the thirty-second appearance, the paroxysms were so violent that Mrs. Smith died in the most intense agony." (Auburn News and Bulletin, 8 Aug 1884)
She was tall, of fair complexion with dark brown hair and blue eyes, of cheerful and benevolent disposition and ever ready with sympathy and relief for the suffering of others. She had a strong constitution and good health naturally.
However, she was bitten by a rattlesnake at the age of 19 while crossing a field in Livonia; the poison "rankled in her system ever afterwards." (Botsford Genealogy, Faucher and Botsford, 1977)
"Her life was saved, but regularly, every year thereafter, on the day of the month on which the bite was inflicted, the symptoms of the poisoning violently returned. The part bitten, her ankle, became black and swollen, and the entire leg was affected by it. The paroxysms of pain that followed the original injection of the poison reappeared and the victim suffered terribly. The symptoms gradually grew less violent during the day, and on the day following, entirely disappeared. These visitations became more violent every year, and on the thirty-second appearance, the paroxysms were so violent that Mrs. Smith died in the most intense agony." (Auburn News and Bulletin, 8 Aug 1884)
Daughter of Nathan Woodruff, Sally came with her family from Connecticut, and rode all the way on horseback carrying a weaver's reed on her lap, which she afterwards made good use of in the new settlement. In 1821, she spun and wove the cloth for her husband George Smith's fine suit to wear in the legislature at Albany as the first representative in the new County of Livingston.
She was tall, of fair complexion with dark brown hair and blue eyes, of cheerful and benevolent disposition and ever ready with sympathy and relief for the suffering of others. She had a strong constitution and good health naturally.
However, she was bitten by a rattlesnake at the age of 19 while crossing a field in Livonia; the poison "rankled in her system ever afterwards." (Botsford Genealogy, Faucher and Botsford, 1977)
"Her life was saved, but regularly, every year thereafter, on the day of the month on which the bite was inflicted, the symptoms of the poisoning violently returned. The part bitten, her ankle, became black and swollen, and the entire leg was affected by it. The paroxysms of pain that followed the original injection of the poison reappeared and the victim suffered terribly. The symptoms gradually grew less violent during the day, and on the day following, entirely disappeared. These visitations became more violent every year, and on the thirty-second appearance, the paroxysms were so violent that Mrs. Smith died in the most intense agony." (Auburn News and Bulletin, 8 Aug 1884)
She was tall, of fair complexion with dark brown hair and blue eyes, of cheerful and benevolent disposition and ever ready with sympathy and relief for the suffering of others. She had a strong constitution and good health naturally.
However, she was bitten by a rattlesnake at the age of 19 while crossing a field in Livonia; the poison "rankled in her system ever afterwards." (Botsford Genealogy, Faucher and Botsford, 1977)
"Her life was saved, but regularly, every year thereafter, on the day of the month on which the bite was inflicted, the symptoms of the poisoning violently returned. The part bitten, her ankle, became black and swollen, and the entire leg was affected by it. The paroxysms of pain that followed the original injection of the poison reappeared and the victim suffered terribly. The symptoms gradually grew less violent during the day, and on the day following, entirely disappeared. These visitations became more violent every year, and on the thirty-second appearance, the paroxysms were so violent that Mrs. Smith died in the most intense agony." (Auburn News and Bulletin, 8 Aug 1884)
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