Ancestry of
Dorothy Frances Smith

(1897–1992)

Dorothy Frances Smith

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Frank Clifton Smith 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Lou Stanwood   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Apr 1897 
  • Birth Location:
  • Washington Court House, Fayette, Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Jan 1992 
  • Death Location:
  • Hancock Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California 
  • Notes: 

  • Just before her wedding to Harold Morton, Dorothy Smith and her mother were stricken by a severe case of ptomaine poisoning (i.e. food poisoning) shortly after dinner. Her fiancee Harold broke into the house and discovered the two lying unconcious on the floor. A news paper article on the incident said the wedding was postponed until Christmas Day, but the marriage certificate shows that they actually got married on 23 DEC 1916.

• Marriages for Dorothy Frances Smith

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  • Spouse:
  • Harold Coleman Morton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Dec 1916
  • Marriage Location:
  • Los Angeles County, California

• Sources for Dorothy Frances Smith

  • ¹ California, County Marriages, 1850-1953, Marriage certificate for Richard William Wheaton and daughter Dorothy Virginia Morton.
  • ² California, County Marriages, 1850-1953, Marriage certificate for Harold Coleman Morton and Dorothy Frances Smith.
  • ³ Federal Census, CA, Los Angeles County, 1930, Los Angeles A.D. 58, E.D. 19-185, Sheet 3B, Image 6 of 45.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, TX, Bexar County, 1900, San Antonio Ward 01, E.D. 79, Sheet 7B, Image 15 of 41.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/05/2016).
  • ⁶ Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California), 04 FEB 1992, Obituary for Dorothy Morton.
  • ⁷ Ohio, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1774-1973, Birth record for Dorothy Francis Smith.
  • ⁸ San Diego Union (San Diego, California), 21 DEC 1916, p. 5, "Saves His Fiancee And Mother From Death by Poison".
  • ⁹ U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Death record for Dorothy F. Morton.
  • ¹⁰ McGroarty, John Steven, Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea, Vol. 2, Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society (1921), 400.