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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