Parents: Barnabas & Emily Jane Strait Smith.


Burial
St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 32577070 - buried at Jefferson National Barracks Cemetary (Quarantine Cemetery for yellow fever and small pox victims and CW sick and wounded soldiers). He most likely died of small pox or yellow fever.
(From Disneynut1928)

On 8/14/2014 10:01 AM, Education Email wrote:
> Found him!
> The St. Louis City Death Register shows he was buried at Quarantine Cemetery adjacent to the Robert Koch hospital, south of Jefferson Barracks. Here is a link to that cemetery on findagrtave http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2452320&CScn=quarantine&CScntry=4&CSst=26&
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> If the link does nbot work, you can search the cemetery on findagrave. It is listed as Quarantine Cemetery (Oakville),St. Louis Co, MO
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> So you will want to move George to the correct cemetery.
>
> Our website shows the death register information as:
> George E Smith, age 20, died 19 July 1872, born USA, Buried Quarantine Cemetery
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>On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 6:55 PM,
Hi
> I appreciate you efforts in solving our mystery regarding George Elwood Smith Find A Grave Memorial# 32577070
> I have attached the newspaper article from the Lodi Wisconsin paper
> (Lodi Weekly Journal, July 31, 1872)
> We think George was not old enough to be in the civil war, the article states George went on vacation from his home in West Point, Lodi, Wisconsin and did not return home being missing and he died from disease.
> Thanks again
> Sandy
> Judy Belford
> Education Chairperson for St. Louis Genealogical Society
>
Judy
Thanks much for your efforts regarding George Elwood Smith. You have been a great help and all the Smith relatives appreciate you. I put George in the correct cemetery, and it was not easy.
Thanks again. (Rusty)