Elsie Fay "Fay" Smith

1903 - 1925  (22 years)

• Name	Elsie Fay "Fay" Smith  [1, 2]
  Born	5 May 1903	Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA   [1, 3]
  	The Smith book offers the same day and month of birth, but 1902 as the year. Fay's death certificate offers the year as 1903. Her given ages in the 1910 census (7) and the 1920 census (16) leave the year ambiguous.
  Gender	Female
  Parents	Death certificate names her parents as "Jack Smith," born in Mountain View, Missouri, and "Mary Walker," born in Tennessee.  [3]
  Residence	Mar 1920	Liberal, Barton County, Missouri, USA   [2]
  	Her mother's 1920 obituary names her as "Fay Smith" of Liberal.
  Died	24 Sep 1925	Leroy Township, Barton County, Kansas, USA   [3]
  Buried	I. O. O. F. Cemetery, Liberal, Barton County, Missouri, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I1060	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	27 Apr 2014

  
  

  Father	Andrew Jackson Smith,   b. 20 Sep 1858, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA ,   d. 24 Feb 1940, Bryan County, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Mary Carolina "Molly" Walker,   b. 29 Jan 1860, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 26 Feb 1920, Liberal, Barton County, Missouri, USA  (Age 60 years)
  Married	17 Jan 1878	Howell County, Missouri, USA   [1, 4, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F1174	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Oliver Russell Newsom
  Married	1 Apr 1922	Liberal, Barton County, Missouri   [1]
  	Date from Smith book. Husband's name and the fact of their marriage prior to September 1923, from her death certificate.
  Last Modified	18 Oct 2012
  Family ID	F449	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Elsie Fay Smith's marriage to Oliver Newsom, cited in the Smith book and confirmed by her death certificate, has not been located. Her death due to "valvular heart disease" occurred less than a year and a half after her marriage to Newsom (date as reported in Smith). No known issue.

  
  

• Sources

  [S11] Alta A. Dayton, Record of the Posterity of Samuel Harrison Smith and Caroline Mooney Smith and Mary Ellen Batman Smith (Publisher: [N. p.], 1957). [S4285] “Obituary” Liberal (Missouri) News, 5 March 1920, for Mary C. Walker (Mrs. A.J. Smith), p.1, col. 3; [likely reel no. 26575], State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia. [S2782] Missouri Secretary of State, “Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1961,” digital images, Missouri State Archives (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives : accessed 18 Oct 2012), for Elsie Fay Newsom, certificate no. 26343, Barton County, Missouri (1925). [Indexed as "Newson" on the website.]. [S2717] Howell County, Missouri, Marriage Book [1978]: 17, A. J. Smith-Mary Walker, 17 January 1878; digital image, "Missouri Marriage Records, 1850-2002," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 August 2013); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City. [S2709] 1880 U. S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 52, p. 25 (penned), p. 469 (stamped, recto), dwelling 200, family 200, A. Jackson Smith household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 691; FHL film no. 1,254,691. [S4372] Howell County, Missouri, Marriage Book C:17, A. J. Smith-Mary Walker, 1878, certificate and return; Recorder's Office, West Plains.