SMITH, Adelaide

Name – SMITH, Adelaide
Born – 1867
Died – 30/07/1940
Location – No 23 Methodist Section
Mother – Caroline Toll
Father – James Plant

Notes – Adelaide was born in either 1866 or 1867 (conflicting info), to Caroline and James Plant at Terang, Victoria. Her siblings were Ellen, Grace, Walter, Alfred, George, Clara, Annie, Lilly and Albert.

Adelaide Plant married Edward (Ted) Smith at Gunbower, Victoria on the 7th April, 1887. They had at least 7 children Lousia (Dolly) 1888, Ida May 1889, Edith Maud (Queenie) 1890, George Edward 1892, Leslie Gordon 1893, Stanley Roy 1897 and Adeline Lilian Annie Myrtle 1895.

Edward and Adelaide moved to Tara in 1911. Of their daughters, all but one married and lived in the close proximity to their parents. Arnold, Taylor and Potter all lived close by.

Adelaide was a member of the CWA raising money for the Rest Room at the Hospital and a holiday house at Redcliffe. At the time of her death Adelaide and Edward were living at Bon Accord, Tara.

Adelaide shares a gravsite with her husband Edward and the inscription on the headstone reads – In loving Memory of My dear Wife and 0ur Mother Adelaide Smith 1866 to 1940.

Newspaper Article – Read here.

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