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My Brother Before Me

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George Wellington Smith was the son of Eliud Wellington Smith (1869-1932) and his wife Anna Josephine Coughell (1876-1966). Eliud and Anna's firstborn was also named George Wellington Smith. This earlier George was born in Thorold, Ontario, Canada on 18 September 1893 but died when he was just a few months old on 18 February 1894. According to one of Eliud and Anna's children, Mabel Smith Westfall (1906-2001), her Smith grandparents "had a little house with a cemetery where my mother buried her first child." (See the Ontario, Canada: Smith et al page for additional information on the Smith family). The second George was born 21 November 1903 likely in Ontario, Canada. A record of his birth is not readily found in Familysearch.org's Ontario Births 1869-1911. His sister Mabel was born in April of 1906 in the town of Stamford in Welland County, Ontario, Canada.  I have no pictures of George. The best I can do is a photo of his tombstone. He was laid to rest