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Anna M <I>Rice</I> Smith

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Anna M Rice Smith

Birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death
6 Mar 1917 (aged 65)
French Lick, Orange County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.9859799, Longitude: -87.6795231
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On the 14th of December, 1871, Mr. Orson Smith was married to Miss Anna M. Rice, the youngest daughter of the Hon. John Blake and Mary Ann Rice. Her father was for two terms mayor of Chicago and represented the first district in Congress.

On the 1900 Census, she is Anna Smith, wife of Orson Smith, b. September 1851 in Illinois, age 48, mother of 3, none living.

Wednesday March 7, 1917 in the Chicago Tribune
Mrs. Orson Smith, wife of the former president of the Merchants Loan and Trust company bank, died suddenly yesterday at French Like Springs, Ind.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith had long been residents of Chicago and lived for many years at 50 Bellevue place. Mrs. Smith was one of the founders of the Illinois Training School for Nurses and made a strenuous fight for the nurses against the county commissioners in 1911. She was the aunt of Capt. Henry J. Reilly of THE TRIBUNE staff.

Thursday, March 8, 1917 in the Chicago Tribune Death Notices
SMITH - Anna Rice Smith. March 6, 1917, at French Lick, Ind., wife of Orson Smith. Funeral at 2 p.m. Friday, March 9, from lat residence. 50 Bellevue place. Burial private.
On the 14th of December, 1871, Mr. Orson Smith was married to Miss Anna M. Rice, the youngest daughter of the Hon. John Blake and Mary Ann Rice. Her father was for two terms mayor of Chicago and represented the first district in Congress.

On the 1900 Census, she is Anna Smith, wife of Orson Smith, b. September 1851 in Illinois, age 48, mother of 3, none living.

Wednesday March 7, 1917 in the Chicago Tribune
Mrs. Orson Smith, wife of the former president of the Merchants Loan and Trust company bank, died suddenly yesterday at French Like Springs, Ind.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith had long been residents of Chicago and lived for many years at 50 Bellevue place. Mrs. Smith was one of the founders of the Illinois Training School for Nurses and made a strenuous fight for the nurses against the county commissioners in 1911. She was the aunt of Capt. Henry J. Reilly of THE TRIBUNE staff.

Thursday, March 8, 1917 in the Chicago Tribune Death Notices
SMITH - Anna Rice Smith. March 6, 1917, at French Lick, Ind., wife of Orson Smith. Funeral at 2 p.m. Friday, March 9, from lat residence. 50 Bellevue place. Burial private.


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