Earl Smith


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Earl E. Smith (b.1882 - d.1957) was born on May 27, 1882 in California. His parents were David A. Smith, born in Indiana and Mary E. Breen, born in California, dates unknown.  Earl married twice but his first wife is unknown. He married for the second time to Mary Alice "Mollie" Crouch. He worked for the Goldwater Brothers as a clerk in their mercantile stores in Phoenix and Prescott, Arizona for several years. Later, he worked in the rock and gravel business.

Handwriting on back of photograph reads: "This is Earl Smith born in Colton, California. The family moved to Phoenix approximately 1890. Earl worked for the Goldwater store in Phoenix, then went to Wickenburg, Arizona and from there to Prescott, where he lived and worked for Goldwater Brothers for many years. Was a great friend of Willy Stewart. Earl moved to Los Angeles, California and engaged in the rock and gravel business and was known as Dump Truck (?) Smith. Made a lot of money and lost a lot. Married twice-boy and girl by first marriage. Second wife - Mollie Crouch, an old Prescott family. Smith now retired and living in Los Angeles."

Earl died on November 15, 1957, in Los Angeles, California. Burial in Melrose Abbey Memorial Park in Anaheim, California.

Sources: US Census 1900,1940; Findagrave.com; California County Birth and Death Records 1880-1994; US WWII Draft Registration Cards, 1942.

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