Husband: Fred Anderson Smith
Census name: Freddie Smith 1
Born: Mar- 8-1896 at Central Station, Doddridge Co, WV 2,1,3,4
Died: Feb-12-1975 5,6,4
Buried: in Fairmount Cemetery, Libertytown, Frederick Co, MD 7
Resided: in Wilmington, New Castle Co, DE 6
Resided: 1957 in Washington, DC 8
Resided: 1942 in Wilmington, New Castle Co, DE 9
Census: 1940 in Wilmington, New Castle Co, DE
Census: 1930 in Charleston, Kanawha Co, WV
Census: 1920 in Washington, DC (see note 1)
Resided: 1911, 1917 at Central Station, Doddridge Co, WV 10,2
Census: 1900, 1910 in Central District, Doddridge Co, WV
Occupation: 1930, 1940 Internal Revenue Service agent 11,12
Occupation: 1917 railroad brakeman, B & O, Grafton WV 2
Education: West Union H.S. (1916, Valedictorian) 13,14
Military: Mar- 5-1918 - Mar-29-1921 World War I 5,15 (see note 2)
Father: David G. Smith (1863 - 1911)
Mother: Lavina E. Pigott (1865 - 1900)
Wife: Etta M. Swadner Census name: Etta M. Sweadner Married: ca 1921 11
Born: Jan- 6-1884 in Maryland 6,4 (see note 3) Died: Jan- -1977 Buried: in Fairmount Cemetery, Libertytown, Frederick Co, MD 7 Resided: 1942 in Wilmington, New Castle Co, DE Census: 1940 in Wilmington, New Castle Co, DE Census: 1930 in Charleston, Kanawha Co, WV Census: 1910, 1920 in Washington, DC Occupation: 1920 saleslady in millinery 16 Occupation: 1910 milliner 17 Father: Mother:
Sources: (1) 1900 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Central District) (2) National Archives and Records Administration, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (Ancestry.com online database) (3) West Virginia Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. (4) Headstone (year only) (5) U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. (6) Social Security Death Index. (7) Findagrave.com. (8) West Union Herald, 11/7/1957. (9) National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (Ancestry.com online database) (10) Obituary of father. (11) 1930 Census, Kanawha County, WV. (12) 1940 Census. (13) West Union Herald, 5/25/1916. (14) Doddridge County Republican, 5/25/1916. (15) Doddridge County Republican, Local news item, in its entirety: "Fred Anderson Smith, one of the last, if not the last of the National Army men now in the service from this county, and who for the pas 13 months has been a patient in the Raritan Hospital at Metuchen, N.J. and the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., is spending a brief furlough at home.", 11/21/1918. (16) 1920 Census. (17) 1910 Census. Event Notes Note (1) Listed as Fred A. Smith, 23, b. WVa, single, occupation US Army soldier, one of many patients at Walter Reed Hospital. Note (2) Local news item, "Doddridge County Republican," Nov 21 1918, in its entirety: "Fred Anderson Smith, one of the last, if not the last of the National Army men now in the service from this county, and who for the past 13 months has been a patient in the Raritan Hospital at Metuchen, N.J. and the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., is spending a brief furlough at home." Note (3) Birth date given in Social Security Death Index as Jan 6 1884, and the date on her headstone is also 1884. But age 29 and 49 in the 1920 and 1940 censuses put it in about 1891, while age 23 in 1910 puts it at 1887, and age 37 in 1930 puts it in 1893.