Arnold Harry Smith

Born 29 May 1896 at Tallmadge, Summit County, Ohio

Died 7 June 1987 at Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri

Arnold was the son of John B. Smith and Louisa M. Ormes Smith. He was raised at Akron, Ohio where his father was an insurance agent. His father died in 1911 and thereafter Arnold was raised by his mother who worked for a time as a paper hanger. Arnold worked for a time as a city news boy but by 1918 he was a laboratory assistant in chemistry with Bureau of Standards, United States Department of Commerce. Arnold married to Elinor More Titus on 2 July 1921 at Kingston, New York. Arnold was a graduate of Armour Institute of Technology and at the time of his marriage was head chemist for the Thermoid Rubber Company at Trenton, New Jersey. In 1930, at the time of his daughter Esther's birth, the family was living near London, England and Arnold was the British and continental representative of the rubber section of Monsanto Rubber Company. In 1932, he was a chemist with Monsant Chemical Works in London. In 1939, he was a chemist with Monsanto Chemical Company at Llangollen, Wales. Arnold returned to the United States about 1941 and the family purchased a home at Kirkwood, Missouri where they resided permanently. Arnold and Elinor were the parents of four children; Nancy Orme Smith, Sandra Sinclair Smith, Prudence Marvin Smith, and Esther Arnold Smith. Arnold was buried with his wife in a Titus family plot at Walton Cemetery at Walton, New York. He was the husband of my fourth cousin twice removed.

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Elinor More Titus Smith

Born 10 December 1893 at Walton, Delaware County, New York

Died 2 April 1975 at Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri

Elinor was the daughter of Philip Sheridan Titus and Mary More Marvin Titus. She was raised at Middletown, New York and Kingston, New York where her father was a railroad conductor. They relocated to Norwich, New York about 1915. Elinor attended Oneonta Normal School at Oneonta, New York and was elected, in 1915, as the state orator for the Arethusa United Alumnae Association convocation. Elinor was a kindergarten teacher at Akron, Ohio before she married to Arnold Harry Smith on 2 July 1921 at Kingston. He was a chemist for Thermoid Rubber Company at Trenton, New Jersey and later a Monsanto Rubber Company executive. Her husband’s work allowed the family to relocate often to such places as Illinois where their first three daughters were born and to England where their fourth and last daughter was born. When Elinor’s father died in 1937, she and her daughters returned to Walton until about 1943 when they relocated permanently to Saint Louis. Elinor and Harry were the parents of four daughters; Nancy Orme Smith, Sandra Sinclair Smith, Prudence Marvin Smith, and Esther Arnold Smith. Elinor was buried next to her parents in a Titus family plot at Walton Cemetery. She was John More Association cousin #74122 and my fourth cousin twice removed.

Elinor Titus Smith

1893 - 1975

Arnold H. Smith

1896 - 1987

 

 Photographs were obtained myself on 12 August 2015. In the plot photo, the grave marker for Elinor and Arnold are in the front on the far right. Next to them, in the center, is the grave marker for Elinor's mother and next to her's, on the far left, is Elinor's father. Behind the Titus family monument is the grave of Elinor's paternal uncle, Charles H. Titus.

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Carrie Maria Tobey Sinclair

Born 20 March 1876 at Walton, Delaware County, New York

Died 17 January 1960 at Walton, Delaware County, New York

Carrie was the daughter of Massachusetts native, Charles Clinton Tobey, and Connecticut native, Maria Betsey Barrows Tobey. She was raised at Walton where her father carried on a substantial business as a tanner. Carrie graduated from Walton Academy in 1893 and married to Page Herman Sinclair on 19 May 1904 at Walton. They made their home at that place on Townsend Street where they raised their only child, Helen Marjorie Sinclair. Carrie died at Smith Hospital following a cerebral accident on 12 December 1959. She was an active member of her community as a member of First Congregational Church and a member of the Mary Weed Marvin Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Carrie was buried next to her husband in a Tobey family plot at Walton Cemetery. She was the wife of my third cousin three times removed.

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Page Herman Sinclair

Born 23 September 1877 at Nunda, Livingston County, New York

Died 8 August 1953 at Walton, Delaware County, New York

Page was the first of three children born to Hector H. Sinclair and Caroline Maria Page Sinclair. His father was a marble cutter and the family relocated several times as Page grew to maturity. In 1880, the family resided at Jamestown, New York. Perhaps they still lived there in 1883 when Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show performed at that place in its first year of travel. In 1885, the family resided at Appleton, Missouri where Page’s sister Mary was born. In 1895, the family relocated to El Dorado, Kansas, where his parents would reside until the end of their lives. In 1899, Page’s paternal uncle at Walton, New York died and Page relocated to that place to help with his deceased uncle’s mercantile business. In July 1900, he entered the railway mail service as a mail clerk with the Ontario and Western Railroad. Page married to Carrie Maria Tobey on 19 May 1904 at Walton. They made their home on Townsend Street at that place where they raised their only child, Helen Marjorie Sinclair. Page retired on 1 October 1939 and was later a Justice of the Peace and Acting Police Judge at Walton. Page died at Smith Hospital after an illness of five weeks. He had been a Delaware County Republican committeeman; Walton Republican town committeeman; a member of Walton Lodge 559, Free and Accepted Masons; a member of First Congregational Church, of which he was a trustee at the time of his death. He was an active member of the John More Association from 1947 until his death as second vice-president on the Board of Directors of JMA, Inc. Page was buried in a Tobey family plot at Walton Cemetery. He was my third cousin three times removed.

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