Harriet E. Smith
Raised as Hattie Smith in North Bloomfield, Ohio, she married Herbert Stetson in Earlville, Iowa. Their five children were born in Iowa before the family relocated to Montana after 1900
Teaching was a career path for three sons of deacon Josiah T. Stetson
Insights from an 1897 biographical sketch
Where did Herbert meet Hattie?
Besides the fact of their marriage, I've found no other record that places Herbert in Ohio or Harriet in Maine.
Isetta's mother Harriet Smith descended from the Mayflower family of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley
When I showed my Stetson results to Twyla, she was interested to learn that Cornet Robert Stetson arrived in Plymouth Colony shortly after the Mayflower. But what about the family members who were actually aboard the original Pilgrim ship?
Those would be the famous couple of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, whose history and genealogy are well documented. How did the Stetson family intersect with this famous Mayflower family?
Isetta Stetson's father Herbert Stetson was a ninth generation descendant of colonial American Cornet Robert Stetson
It took some doing, but I've succeeded in tracing the Eilertsen-Bennett family's Stetson lineage back to Cornet Robert Stetson, who settled Scituate, Massachusetts in the Plymouth Colony in the first decade after the Mayflower landing.
The chart shows the family identifier code used by the Stetson Kindred of America, which has published official genealogies for more than 100 years. Cornet Robert is Stetson number 1 and members of each subsequent generation are given by birth order.
Herbert E. Stetson
Maine educator who went west and raised a family in Iowa. They later resettled in Montana, where Herbert managed a mercantile store