Mae Smith

Mae Smith was the second to the last daughter of Silas Derryfield Smith and his first wife, Ellen Johanna Larson Smith. She was born April 15, 1905, in Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona. In the 1910 U.S. Census for Snowflake, the family was listed as: Silas, 42, Ellen, 42, Silas Reuel, 22, Ethel, 20, Seraphine, 18, Mons, 14, Alof, 12, Josephine, 10, Mae, 5, and Ella, one month old. Silas was working as a contractor building irrigation ditches. Ellen was working as a retail merchant, Silas Reul was working as a farm laborer, and Ethel was working as a photographer with her own shop.

By 1911, Mae's sister, Ethel, had married her husband Howard Randall, and was probably already expecting their first of 13 children. Their brother, Silas Reuel, had married Mary Elizabeth Bates, however, tragically he was killed in 1920 at the young age of 32 when a loaded wagon ran over him and broke his neck. Their sister, Charity, born in 1893, had died five years before Mae was born in 1900 when she was crushed under the back wheel of a wagon. Their sister, Seraphine, had married Clarence Alfred Frost, and they had their first of five children, Willamelia, in 1913. Their brother, Alof Omni, was also killed in a tragic accident when he was only 27 years old in 1926 from a compound fracture at the base of his skull when he was struck by a rock in a mine accident. And later her sister, Josephine, would also die in a tragic automobile accident.

By 1920, the family had moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, and were listed in the census as follows: Silas, 52, Ellen, 52, Mons, 24, Josephine, 19, Mae, 14, and Ellen, 9. Silas was working as a farmer, and his son, Mons as a farm laborer, and Josephine was in training as a nurse at a hospital. By 1930, Josephine was living in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1930, with her husband, Nicholas Francis Hackett, and she was working as a nurse in a dentist's office.

On April 10th, 1930, Mae was 24 years old, living at 468 3rd Avenue in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her parents, Silas, 62, and Ellen, 62. They were renting their home for $30.00 per month. Silas and Ellen had been married for 41 years. Silas was working as a genealogist for a society and Ellen was working as a book canvasser.

On December 13, 1930, Mae Smith, 25 years old, was on the ship, S.S. City of Los Angeles, sailing from Wilmington, California, arriving in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 19th. She must have been going to visit her sister, Josephine. Mae had been living in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the time of her trip to Hawaii. Her sister, Josephine, was killed in an automobile accident in Utah during July of 1935. By that time, Josephine and her husband, Nicholas Francis Hacket, had moved to Los Angeles, California.

I don't know what happened to Mae after 1930, as I could not find her in the census records after that, but she lived another 56 years and passed away at the age of 80 in January of 1986. I don't know if she was ever married or had any hildren.