Walter J. Smith

Walter J. Smith

• Father: Walter Gibbs Smith b. 9 December 1871, d. 31 March 1946
• Mother: Lena Kent b. 6 August 1876, d. 10 July 1956

• Walter J. Smith was born on 20 September 1895 in Colorado.
• Walter Gibbs Smith and Lena Kent appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado, at 604 E Street. Other members of the household included Walter J. Smith.
• Walter Gibbs Smith and Lena Kent appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. Other members of the household included Walter J. Smith, Miles K. Smith, Fred Moxon Smith and Ethyle Smith.
• Walter J. Smith registered for the draft on 5 June 1917 in Chaffee County, Colorado, while single and living at 425 E Street in Salida, and employed there by the US government as a rural mail carrier.
• He married Dorian O. Haus, daughter of William J. Haus and Martha Y. (?), circa 1918.
• He served in the military during World War I, according to the 1930 census.
• Walter J. Smith and Dorian O. Haus appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Chaffee County, Colorado, living on the county road.. Other members of the household included Kent Larimer Smith.
• He was a mail carrier in the city, according to the 1920 census.
• Lena Kent appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, at 12 Ontario Avenue. Other members of the household included Walter J. Smith, Chester M. Phillipe, Miles K. Smith, Ethyle Smith and Allena Louise Schwebes. Also in the household is Frank Phillipe, likely Chester's father. Lena is identified as a widow, but according to the California Death Index Walter Gibbs Smith died in 1946. Walter is also enumerated with his wife and family in Chaffee County, Colorado.
• William J. Haus and Martha Y. (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Kortz, Chaffee County, Colorado. Other members of the household included Walter J. Smith, Dorian O. Haus, Kent Larimer Smith, Kedric F. Smith and Shayle Webster Smith. Walter Smith is also enumerated with his mother in Long Beach, California, apparently having gone there to find work.
• He was working at odd jobs, according to the 1930 Colorado census, and working in a cannery, according to the same census in Long Beach.

• Last Edited: 27 Jan 2011