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Edna May (Trace) Smith (1879 - 1965)

Edna May Smith formerly Trace aka Horth
Born in Woodcock Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United Statesmap
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Wife of — married 18 Oct 1899 in Saegertown, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United Statesmap
Wife of — married about 1938 in Crawford, Pennsylvania, United Statesmap
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Died at about age 85 in Pennsylvania, United Statesmap
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Biography

Edna (Trace) Smith has German Roots.
Edna (Trace) Smith was a Pennsylvanian.

Edna, daughter of Francis "Frank" Trace and Flora Etta Peiffer, was born 30 January 1879 in Woodcock Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.[1] On 18 October 1899 in Saegertown, Crawford County, she married Clinton I. Horth,[2] son of John "William" and Julia Horth. They had one daughter before divorcing:

Following their marriage the newlyweds Edna (age 21) and Clinton (26, bridge builder) returned to his native New York, where they lived next to his parents in Salamanca, Cattaraugus County, in 1900.[1] Clinton J. (age 31, mail carrier) and Edna M. Horth (24) moved to Jamestown, Chautauqua County, before 1905, when they were living with Edna's widowed 77-year-old maternal grandmother, Sarah Peiffer.[6] They remained in Jamestown, where the household in 1910 encompassed Clinton J. (age 36, mail carrier), Edna (31), their daughter Evelyn M. Horth (3), and an English-born boarder named Grace Cooper (27, nurse).[3]

Clinton appears to be living alone in New York on the 1915 state census.[7] In September 1918, her husband was working as a carpenter for Firestone Tire and Rubber in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, while she was living in Meadville.[8] He lists her as his contact, but they may already be separated legally as well as physically.[8]

Edna divorced her husband and returned to her parental home, which had been moved to Meadville, Crawford County, before 1920.[4] Thus, the household they rented at 274 Prospect Street included her parents Francis (age 68) and Flora Trace (66), Edna T. Horth (40, dry goods store saleswoman) and her daughter Evelyn M. Horth (14), and a roomer named Anna Haines (20, clerk for the railroad).[4]

After the death of her father in 1922[9] and her daughter's marriage in 1927,[5] Edna Trace Horth (age 50, saleslady in ready-to-wear shop) and Flora Trace (76) moved to a smaller residence on Walnut Street, where they were found in 1930.[10]

Some time following her mother's death on 1 June 1937,[11] Edna remarried to Cassius Laban "Cash" Smith. In 1940, Cassius Smith (age 58, men's clothing merchant) and Edna M. Smith (61) resided in Mead Township, Crawford County, with her widowed aunt [[Peiffer-196|Charlotte M. (Peiffer) Trace (76).[12] Edna and Cassius had each completed their sophomore year in high school; Charlotte finished grammar school.[12]

Edna died in 1965 and was buried at Greendale Cemetery in Meadville.[13]

Research Notes

  • Much of the 1880 census for Crawford County is illegible. It appears to have been recorded with a hard pencil, making most of the image appear blank.

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 United States Census, 1900, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 5 January 2020), Edna M Horth in household of Clinton Horth, Salamanca Township West Salamanca, Cattaraugus, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 134, sheet 12A, family 250, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,011.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950, database with images, FamilySearch (12 November 2019), Clinton I. Horth and Edna May Trace, 18 Oct 1899; citing Marriage, Saegertown, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States, multiple County Clerks, Pennsylvania.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 United States Census, 1910, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 5 January 2020), Edna Horth in household of Clinton J Horth, Jamestown Ward 4, Chautauqua, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 157, sheet 1B, family 19, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 930; FHL microfilm 1,374,943.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 United States Census, 1920, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 5 January 2020), Edna T Horth in household of Francis Trace, Meadville Ward 1, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States; citing ED 26, sheet 11A, line 16, family 269, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1556; FHL microfilm 1,821,556.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950, database with images, FamilySearch (12 November 2019), George L. Reid and Evelyn M. Horth, 31 Dec 1927; citing Marriage, , Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, multiple County Clerks, Pennsylvania.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 New York State Census, 1905, database with images, FamilySearch (20 July 2018), Edna M Horth in household of Clinton J Horth, Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, United States; citing various county clerk offices, New York.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 New York State Census, 1915, database, FamilySearch (8 November 2014), Clinton Horth, Jamestown Ward 04, A.D. 01, E.D. 01, Chautauqua, New York, United States; from "New York, State Census, 1915," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing p. 54, line 15, state population census schedules, 1915, New York State Archives, Albany.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, database with images, FamilySearch (24 August 2019), Clinton Horth, 1917-1918.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Find A Grave: Memorial #60265698 for Francis Trace, 1922, buried at Saegertown Cemetery in Saegertown, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States of America (retrieved 13 December 2015).
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 United States Census, 1930, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 5 January 2020), Edna Trace Horth, Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 25, sheet 15A, line 43, family 1008, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2022; FHL microfilm 2,341,756.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Find A Grave: Memorial #60265697 for Flora Etta Peiffer Trace, 1937, buried at Saegertown Cemetery in Saegertown, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States of America (retrieved 11 July 2016).
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 United States Census, 1940, database with images, FamilySearch (28 July 2019), Edna M Smith in household of Cassius Smith, West Mead Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 20-70, sheet 8B, line 58, family 175, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3477.
  13. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #95668921 for Edna Trace Smith.




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