CFHS code : PL469
Parish : St Paul
Inscription : In Loving Memory of my dear husband HENRY JAMES SMITH d Nov 13 1924 aged 49 also ALICE SOPHIA SMITH d Jan 26 1977 aged 97
Monument : Headstone (broken)
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
The headstone is located under this large tree towards the north of the parish. Little can be seen of it as it has a larger stone on top of it.
Inscription
‘In Loving Memory of my dear husband Henry James Smith died Nov 13 1924 aged 49 years
Also Alice Sophia Smith died Jan 26 1977 aged 97 years’
Henry James Smith (d 1924)
Henry was born in Arrington – nine miles south west of Cambridge and was the son of James and Caroline Smith. By the age of 15 he was working as an agricultural labourer like his father. He married Alice Miller in 1909 and they had at least one daughter: Sylvia Grace (1910-1987). In 1911 the family were living at 40 Eden Street and Henry was working as a brewery hand. He died in November 1924 aged 49 years old,
Alice Sophia Smith (née Miller) (3 May 1879 – 26 January 1977)
Alice was born in Barrington and was the daughter of John and Sophia (née Christmas) Miller. Her father was a road labourer, and by the time she was 21 Alice was working as an assistant school teacher. She married when she was 30 years old. After she was widowed she ran a Lodging House at 47 Russell Street (1939). She died in Cambridge aged 97 years old.
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen
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