Frank William Smith

Frank William Smith

• Frank William Smith was born on 24 May 1878 in Allegany County, New York.
• Frank William Smith registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Cattaraugus County, New York, while living with his wife Elizabeth Agnes on Estate Street in Olean, self-employed there as a blacksmith at 110 North 3rd Street.
• Frank William Smith appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Shinglehouse, Potter County, Pennsylvania. Other members of the household included Gertrude Millicent Cleghorn, Abbie M. Armstrong, James Albert Armstrong and Jay Earl Armstrong. Gertrude Armstrong, employed as housekeeper by widowed blacksmith Frank Smith, boarding in his household with her six children.
• He was working as a blacksmith in his own shop, according to the 1930 census.
• He married Gertrude Millicent Cleghorn, daughter of John C. Cleghorn and Barbara Stahle, in 1931.
• Frank William Smith and Gertrude Millicent Cleghorn appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Oswayo Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania. Also in the household was one hired hand.
• He was self-employed as a blacksmith, according to the 1940 census.
• Frank William Smith registered for the draft on 27 April 1942 in Potter County, Pennsylvania, while living with his wife in Oswayo Township, self-employed farming there.
• Frank William Smith became a widower at the 5 February 1972 death of his wife Gertrude Millicent Cleghorn.
• The following appeared on 9 February 1972 in The Patriot & Free Press: Gertrude Cleghorn Smith, 84, of 9 Pelton Court, died in Cuba Memorial Hospital Saturday, February 5, 1972, following a long illness.
       Born Jan. 25, 1888 in Lewiston, she was a daughter of John. C. and Barbara Stahle Cleghorn, and had lived in Cuba 22 years. In 1931 she was married to Frank W. Smith, who survives.
       Also surviving are six sons, Warren B. Armstrong, Wooster, Ohio, Laurence A. Armstrong of Canisteo, Robert Armstrong of Clermont, Pa., James Armstrong of Staunton, Va., Jay E. Armstrong of Cuba, and Joseph F. Smith of Delevan; six daughters, Mrs. Moeton Grossman of Los Angeles, Mrs. Earl Troupe of Dallas, Tex., Mrs. Joseph Lyden of Petersburg, Va., Mrs. Leslie Wakefield of Falls Church, Va., Mrs. Grover Moore of Hialeah, Fla., Mrs. William Ingalls of Cuba; a step--daughter, Mrs. Charles Wilson of Warren, Pa.
       Also two sisters, Mrs. Montie Fainer of Los Angeles and Mrs. Hugh Barber of Black Creek; two brothers, Harold J. Cleghorn of Delevan and Robert B. Cleghorn of Clarksburg, [W.] Va; and 48 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.
       Funeral services Tuesday at the Voorhees Funeral Homer were conducted by the Rev. Alan Merrill, pastor of the Independent Congregational Church of Black Creek. Burial was in Cuba Cemetery.
       Memorials may be made to Cuba Memorial Hospital Inc.
• Frank William Smith died in March 1974 at age 95.
• He was interred at Cuba Cemetery, Cuba, Allegany County, New York.

• Last Edited: 13 Feb 2014