Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Elizabeth Johnson Smith

birth: January 7, 1862
location: Goodsprings, Alabama
death: May 18, 1945
location: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama

father: Pascal Johnson
mother: unknown Thomas

spouse: Col. Gaines Chisholm Smith


1870 census

marriage to Gaines C. Smith





1940 census

death

burial

Published in The Alabama Courier, Athens, Alabama, Thursday, May 18, 1945

Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson Smith, 84, wife of the late Colonel Gaines Chism Smith who was a veteran of the Mexican, Civil and Spanish-American Wars, and the mother of the late Ewell Smith, died Friday, May 18, at the Woodson Convalescent Home after being transferred there from the Jefferson Hospital where she was carried March 15 and operated on for a broken hip.

Funeral services were conducted Sunday at 2 o'clock from the home of her grandson, William D Smith, at 502 North Houston Street, with Dr. B. T. Waites in charge.

Pallbearers were John Coffman, Joe Sarver, Fletcher Rogers, W. B. Buchannon, Pierce Hunter and Leslie Nelson.

Interment was in the City Cemetery, McConnell directing.

The only survivors are her two grandson, William Smith of Athens and Gaines Smith of Birmingham.



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