Birth Name: Alexi A. F. Schmidt
He changed the family's name sometime around 1940
Alexi was the youngest of three children born to Theodor Schmidt and Jenny Spigel (Spiegel) of St. Petersburg, Russia. The family was forced to flee the country during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. He and his brother, Leo, fled (mostly on foot) with their father to Finland, while his mother fled with his sister, Alice, to Canada. The family eventually reunited in England. Alexi then lived in Austria for a number of years. In early 1936 he moved from Austria to New York City, where he met his wife, Elva. They married April 9, 1936.
Alexis later went back to England and France for a visit and family business. He returned to New York in 1938 aboard the French ocean liner, S.S. Normandie.
Alexis' work in the fur trade industry resulted in a final move with his family from New York to Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he owned a fur tanning company. While in Bolivia, he became ill and was taken to Sao Paulo Hospital in Brazil where he passed away. He was buried in the Cemitério dos Protestantes in Sao Paulo.
His body was later disinterred from Cemitério dos Protestantes and reburied in the adjoining Catholic Cemitério da Consolação, where it rests today.
Parents:
Theodor Herbert Schmidt and Jenny Spigel (Spiegel)
Siblings:
Alice Anastasia Schmidt Delavier (1900-1976)
Leo Ferdinand Michael-Smith (1898-1983)
He changed the family's name sometime around 1940
Alexi was the youngest of three children born to Theodor Schmidt and Jenny Spigel (Spiegel) of St. Petersburg, Russia. The family was forced to flee the country during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. He and his brother, Leo, fled (mostly on foot) with their father to Finland, while his mother fled with his sister, Alice, to Canada. The family eventually reunited in England. Alexi then lived in Austria for a number of years. In early 1936 he moved from Austria to New York City, where he met his wife, Elva. They married April 9, 1936.
Alexis later went back to England and France for a visit and family business. He returned to New York in 1938 aboard the French ocean liner, S.S. Normandie.
Alexis' work in the fur trade industry resulted in a final move with his family from New York to Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he owned a fur tanning company. While in Bolivia, he became ill and was taken to Sao Paulo Hospital in Brazil where he passed away. He was buried in the Cemitério dos Protestantes in Sao Paulo.
His body was later disinterred from Cemitério dos Protestantes and reburied in the adjoining Catholic Cemitério da Consolação, where it rests today.
Parents:
Theodor Herbert Schmidt and Jenny Spigel (Spiegel)
Siblings:
Alice Anastasia Schmidt Delavier (1900-1976)
Leo Ferdinand Michael-Smith (1898-1983)
Birth Name: Alexi A. F. Schmidt
He changed the family's name sometime around 1940
Alexi was the youngest of three children born to Theodor Schmidt and Jenny Spigel (Spiegel) of St. Petersburg, Russia. The family was forced to flee the country during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. He and his brother, Leo, fled (mostly on foot) with their father to Finland, while his mother fled with his sister, Alice, to Canada. The family eventually reunited in England. Alexi then lived in Austria for a number of years. In early 1936 he moved from Austria to New York City, where he met his wife, Elva. They married April 9, 1936.
Alexis later went back to England and France for a visit and family business. He returned to New York in 1938 aboard the French ocean liner, S.S. Normandie.
Alexis' work in the fur trade industry resulted in a final move with his family from New York to Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he owned a fur tanning company. While in Bolivia, he became ill and was taken to Sao Paulo Hospital in Brazil where he passed away. He was buried in the Cemitério dos Protestantes in Sao Paulo.
His body was later disinterred from Cemitério dos Protestantes and reburied in the adjoining Catholic Cemitério da Consolação, where it rests today.
Parents:
Theodor Herbert Schmidt and Jenny Spigel (Spiegel)
Siblings:
Alice Anastasia Schmidt Delavier (1900-1976)
Leo Ferdinand Michael-Smith (1898-1983)
He changed the family's name sometime around 1940
Alexi was the youngest of three children born to Theodor Schmidt and Jenny Spigel (Spiegel) of St. Petersburg, Russia. The family was forced to flee the country during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. He and his brother, Leo, fled (mostly on foot) with their father to Finland, while his mother fled with his sister, Alice, to Canada. The family eventually reunited in England. Alexi then lived in Austria for a number of years. In early 1936 he moved from Austria to New York City, where he met his wife, Elva. They married April 9, 1936.
Alexis later went back to England and France for a visit and family business. He returned to New York in 1938 aboard the French ocean liner, S.S. Normandie.
Alexis' work in the fur trade industry resulted in a final move with his family from New York to Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he owned a fur tanning company. While in Bolivia, he became ill and was taken to Sao Paulo Hospital in Brazil where he passed away. He was buried in the Cemitério dos Protestantes in Sao Paulo.
His body was later disinterred from Cemitério dos Protestantes and reburied in the adjoining Catholic Cemitério da Consolação, where it rests today.
Parents:
Theodor Herbert Schmidt and Jenny Spigel (Spiegel)
Siblings:
Alice Anastasia Schmidt Delavier (1900-1976)
Leo Ferdinand Michael-Smith (1898-1983)
Gravesite Details
Alexis is interred in a sepulcher with 3 others. Their names are inscribed together on the headstone. His name was misspelled and is inscribed: Alexio Smith
