Author talk:Henry Clay Smith

@Beleg Tâl: Detail that I can find. Find a death date after 1942 (last known residence) is going to be a little tricky though at least this is time and place. Seems that he ditched his first wife when in London, and got rehitched, though I couldn't see a marriage in England. The Arts! — billinghurst sDrewth 23:27, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Sources

• Smith (1885-?) was married to Lee White, ran the Lee-White Company, owned and operated the Strand Theatre in London, and toured in the UK and Australia. Info (sparse at is is) can be found
• https://www.historyforsale.com/lee-white-photograph-signed-co-signed-by-clay-smith/dc146815
• https://www.fredgodfreysongs.ca/Whats_New.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20081229072545/http://www.brucebairnsfather.org.uk:80/index_files/page0055.htm, and
• apparently in the book Horses Don’t Fly: A Memoir of World War I, by Frederick Libby (New York: Arcade, 2000)
• Interesting amount of information in Trove for Australian aspects, including some bankruptcy stuff https://trove.nla.gov.au/result?q=%22clay+smith%22+%22Lee+White%22
• Newspaper images at http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article212485970
• Full names http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222994041
• 1929 article that mentions prior death of Lee White (=> c. 1926-1929) http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245518115

Passport

• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; Roll #: 264; Volume #: Roll 0264 - Certificates: 6301-6700, 26 Aug 1915-31 Aug 1915

Name: Henry Clay Smith
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Birth Date: 12 Feb 1885
Birth Place: Batesville, Arkansas
Residence Place: St Louis, Missouri
Passport Issue Date: 26 Aug 1915
Spouse: Christine Nielsen Smith
Has Photo: Yes
Certificate Number: 9776

WWII

• The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards (Fourth Registration), for The State of Illinois; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147; Series Number: M2097

Name: Henry Clay Smith, retired
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence Age: 57
Birth Date: 12 Feb 1885
Birth Place: Batesville, Arkansas, USA
Residence Date: 1942
Residence Place: Prairie Du Rocher, Illinois, USA
Relationship to Draftee: Head
Military Draft Date: 1942

Anna Lee White Smith

Death Anna Lee White

• Dec 1927 death of Lee White, Spokane, Washington http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article121693738
  • Washington, Death Certificates, 1907-1960. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Name: Anna Lee Smith
[Anna Lee White]
Gender: Female
Marital status: Married
Age: 47
Death Date: 3 Dec 1927
Death Place: Spokane, Spokane, Washington
Father: Charles White
Mother: Mattie A. Hunt
Spouse: Henry Clay Smith
FHL Film Number: 2022418

• Find a Grave (note death transcription error on website, corrected here)

 Anna Lee White
Birth 26 Mar 1880
Death 3 Dec 1927 (aged 47) (thei
Burial Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA
Plot Mausoleum, L-15, White family vault
Memorial ID 143542237

Passport Anna Lee Smith

• Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925 > 1921-1922 > Roll 1805 - Certificates: 108276-108599, 03 Jan 1922-04 Jan 1922

Name: Lee White Smith
Gender: Female
Age: 41
Birth Date: 26 Mar 1880
Birth Place: Louisiana, Missouri
Residence Place: London, England
Passport Issue Date: 4 Jan 1922
Spouse: Henry Clay Smith, b. Batesville, Arkansas
Has Photo: Yes
Certificate Number: 108588