Frank Smith (1858 - 1899)

Frank Smith

Born 1858 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Ancestors

Son of Chappel Brand Smith and Jane Harriet Dimmock

Brother of William Henry Chappell Smith, Frederick John Smith, Harry Thomas Smith, Emily Alice Smith, Charles Herbert Smith, Edmund Alexander Smith, Albert Cecil Smith and Ernest Octavius Smith

[spouse(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

Died 14 Jan 1899 at about age 41 in Charter, Rhodesia

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Frank Smith was born in Cambridgeshire, England.

Biography

Frank Smith emigrated to Rhodesia, (now Zimbabwe) South Africa with the Pioneer Column raised by Cecil Rhodes in 1890 to annex the territory of Mashonaland before the Germans and Portugese. [1] The Pioneer Corps was disbanded in 1890 and each member was granted land on which to farm. Click here for more information about the Pioneer Forts in Rhodesia 1890 - 1897 by P.S. Clark [2]

Frank Smith died at Fort Charter, Rhodesia on 14th January 1899. He was just 30 years old.

Frank is remembered in the Family monument in Cambridge "Sacred to the memory of Frank seventh son of Chappel Brand Smith who died at Charter, Rhodesia on January 14th 1899"

'There is a large monument to the Smith family in the Holy Trinity parish section of Mill Road Cemetery a "tall, square-section, tapered stone column with four panels, on a triple plinth." The panels commemerate 12 members of the family for whom the Friends of Mll Road Cemetery have provided biographies on their web site. Click here [3] to take you to the Friends of Mill Road Cemetery web pages