Mary Augusta Smuts

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Mary Augusta Smuts (Yohé)

Also Known As: "May"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Bethlehem, Northampton, PA, United States
Death: August 29, 1938 (72)
Boston, Suffolk, MA, United States (heart and kidney disease)
Place of Burial: ashes sprinkled into the Atlantic Ocean.
Immediate Family:

Daughter of William W Yohé and Elizabeth Yohé
Wife of John Adley Smuts
Ex-wife of Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle; Capt. Putnam Bradlee Strong and Jack McAuliffe
Ex-partner of Newton Brown

Occupation: American concert hall singer
Managed by: Douglas Arthur Kellner
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About Mary Augusta Smuts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Yoh%C3%A9
Mary Augusta "May" Yohé (April 6, 1866[1] – August 29, 1938) was an American musical theatre actress
Yohé was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the daughter of William W. and Elizabeth (nee Batcheller) Yohé. Her father, a veteran of the American Civil War, was either the son or nephew of Caleb Yohé, proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, where Yohé was born.
In 1894, she married Lord Francis Hope and possessed the Hope Diamond.
By 1924, she and her last husband, John Smuts, had settled in Boston, where she died in near poverty.



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Mary Augusta Smuts's Timeline

1866
April 6, 1866
Bethlehem, Northampton, PA, United States
1938
August 29, 1938
Age 72
Boston, Suffolk, MA, United States