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GIRL IN SECRET SERVICE.

Miss Smithwick is a Real, Live Detective.

New Albany. -Special Correspondence.- Miss Eva Smithwick, of this city, the youngest and one of the most clever of the women secret service operatives in the employ of the government, who has been visiting her home here, has returned to Chicago, whence she will go to Washington, D. C. On her arrival here a week ago she had just returned from Mexico, where she had been in quest of evidence for the postal authorities.

Miss Southwick is 22 years of age, and has been engaged in detective work for the past two years. Her most intimate friends did not know that she was employ of the secret service. It was known to her friends that she spent a great deal of her time from home and that she traveled a great deal.

Miss Smithwick is one of the prettiest young women in Albany, and is a clever conversationalist. Her work in the government service has been confined to the investigation of postal frauds, and she bore a prominent part in the Cuban investigation. Mrs. Cora Smithwick, mother of Miss Smithwick, has admitted that for the past two years her daughter had been engaged in secret service work.

Francesville Tribune September 24, 1903

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Mrs Eva A. Friedenheimer, 81, died in the hospital at the Soldiers home at 8:35 a.m. Monday. She was a patient there two weeks.

Born in New Albany, she was the widow of Frederick Friedenheimer, a veteran of the Spanish-American war, and entered the home from New Albany 15 years ago.

Surviving is a brother, James O. Smithwick of Helena, Mont. The body was sent to New Albany. (Note- James O. died in Sept 1961)

Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) Nov 6, 1961 p 8

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She married Clarence S. Cross on May 24, 1913 in Clark Co., IN. Her 2nd marriage was to Fred Fosdick Friedenheimer on Oct 01, 1919 in Jeffersonville, Clark Co., IN. She did not have any children.

Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011
Name: Eva A Friedenhmeier
[Eva A Smithwick]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 81
Birth Date: 7 Jun 1880
Birth Place: New Albany, Indiana
Death Date: 6 Nov 1961
Death Place: Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana, USA
Marital Status: Widowed
Father: James Oliver Smithwick
Mother: Cora E Barnette

Home in 1900: New Albany, Floyd, Indiana
Cora Smithwick 38
Eva A Smithwick 19 June 1880
James Oliver Smithwick 18
John T Smithwick 18
Ralph Smithwick 8

Home in 1910: New Albany, Floyd, Indiana
Cora E Smithwick 48
Eva A Smithwick 29
Ralph L Smithwick 17

Home in 1920: New Albany Ward 1, Floyd, Indiana
Fred Friedenheimer 45
Eva Friedenheimer 39

Home in 1940: New Albany, Floyd, Indiana
Eva Friedenheimer 59 widowed

U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Eva Smithwick Friedenheimer
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 7 Jun 1880
Birth Place: New Albany, Indiana
Father: James O Smithwick
Mother: Cora E Barnett
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Signature on SSN Card: EVA A FRIEDENHEIMER
Notes: Jun 1938: Name listed as EVA SMITHWICK FRIEDENHEIMER