SMITH - On April 4, WALTER GEORGE SMITH, son of the late General Thomas Kilby and Elizabeth Budd McCullough Smith, aged 69 years. Funeral private from his late residence in Torresdale, Pa. Please omit flowers. --
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 1924
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"...Mr. Smith is little known outside of his home city. He comes of a distinquished family, being the son of Gen. Thomas Kilby Smith, USV, of whom he has written a biography. He was born in Logan County, Ohio, November 24, 1854. Graduating at the University of Pennsylvania in 1874, he won the degree of mastery of arts two years later, and in 1877 was given his bachelor of laws and began the practice of law in Philadelphia. In 1890 he married Elizabeth Drexel, but she lived only a few months afterward..." --
Sun (Baltimore, Md.) June 26, 1918
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Originally buried in Eden Hall Cemetery (Convent of the Sacred Heart)
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Inscription
BELOVED HUSBAND
OF
ELIZABETH DREXEL SMITH
Gravesite Details
Grave photo taken November 2017 (Blessing of the Drexel Family graves)
Family Members
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Thomas Kilby Smith
1820–1887
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Elizabeth Budd McCullough Smith
1827–1899
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Elizabeth Langstroth Drexel Smith
1855–1890 (m. 1890)
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Elizabeth Barnett Smith Esler
1850–1942
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Arabella T. Smith
1852–1868
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Theodore Dehon Smith
1857–1894
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Adrian Worthington Smith
1860–1892
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Caroline Genevieve Smith
1864–1935
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Helen Grace Smith
1865–1959
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William Butler Duncan Smith
1869–1934
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Thomas Kilby Smith
1871–1944
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Records on Ancestry
Walter George Smith
Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968
Walter George Smith
U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925
Walter George Smith
North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
Walter George Smith
1880 United States Federal Census
Walter George Smith
1870 United States Federal Census
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