Heloise Cornelia Smith

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Heloise Cornelia Smith (Drexel)

Birthdate:
Death: October 15, 1895 (60-61)
Place of Burial: Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Francis Martin Drexel and Catherine Drexel
Wife of James Charles Smith
Sister of Mary Johanna Lankenau; Anthony Drexel, Founder: Drexel University & J.P. Morgan Chase; Caroline Watmough; Joseph Wilhelm Drexel and Francis Anthony Drexel

Managed by: Alissa Ann Smith
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About Heloise Cornelia Smith

She and her husband had one child who died quite young, and for whom they mourned for the rest of their lives. She was the daughter of Francis Drexel, Sr.

After her death in 1895, she left her estate, Oakbourne, in Westtown Township, Chester County, to the Protestant Episcopal City Mission, who turned the estate into the James C. Smith Memorial Home for Convalescent Women. Today, the estate is known as Oakbourne Park.

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Heloise Cornelia Smith's Timeline

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1834
1895
October 15, 1895
Age 61
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Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA