George Brigham Smith and Mary Elizabeth "Minnie" Curtis

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Husband George Brigham Smith ¹

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           Born: 5 May 1867 1
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           Died: 
         Buried:  - Maple Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, KS

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         Father: Absalom Smith (1839-1891) 2 3
         Mother: Lydia Eliza Brigham (1835-1875)

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       Marriage: 18 Dec 1904 4

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Wife Mary Elizabeth "Minnie" Curtis ⁴

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           Born: 2 Jun 1863 - Perry, Wyoming Co, NY 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried:  - Maple Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, KS

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         Father: Dexter Curtis (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Jane L. McCumber (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M George Brigham Smith, Jr. ⁴

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           Born: 9 Sep 1908 - Kansas City, Jackson Co, MO 4
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           Died: 1 Jul 1959 5
         Buried:  - Maple Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, KS

         Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth Burns (1908-      ) 5
           Marr: 21 Aug 1928 - Olathe, Johnson Co, KS 5

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General Notes: Husband - George Brigham Smith

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He left home when he was about 18 years old. After his mother's death his father remarried, this time to a woman only eight years older than George. He didn't get along well with her.
He went first to Colorado, where he prospected unsuccessfully for gold and silver. From there he went to Argentina, Kansas, (now a part of Kansas City), and became a painter of tank cars for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway for 25 years. After leaving there he worked for the Argentine Refinery of Sinclair Oil until retirement in 1940.

1 Virginia Gordon Russell, Gordons of Western Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981), Pg 19p.

2 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 762.

3 Virginia Gordon Russell, Gordons of Western Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981), Pg 19.

4 Virginia Gordon Russell, Gordons of Western Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981), Pg 19r.

5 Virginia Gordon Russell, Gordons of Western Pennsylvania (Cochranton, PA: Specialty Printers, 1981), Pg 19s.