IDFirstMiddleLastDOBDODCOD
173ElizabethA.Smith2/4/18556/9/1857N/A

veteran
exhumed
purchaser
cemetery
N/AFALSEN/AAdams Street

lot
plot
N/AR9 G7
relations
Possibly: Patrick (father, b. c1820) Bridget (mother, b. c1825) Martin (brother, b. c1843- d. 9 January 1872) Bridget (sister, b. c1856) Loe Anna (sister, b. 28 Jan 1859, d. 8 Jan. 1865)

comments
Elizabeth was born on 4 February 1855. She died on 9 June 1857. She could not be located in the census records because she was born between Census years. She may be a sister of Martin Smith. In the 1860 U.S. Census, the Smith family is Patrick (40), Bridget (35), Martin (17), Bridget (4), and Ann (2). Elizabeth shares a stone with "Loe Anna" who was born on 28 January 1859 and could have been been the Ann in the census record. If so, Elizabeth's father was a farmer with $300 real estate and $200 personal property. Ann's parents and brother Martin were born in Ireland. Ann and her sister, Bridget, were born in Ohio. Ann died on 8 January 1865 at the approximate age of 6. David Wylie and Emily Johnson bought this lot. August Smith bought lot 186. The white marble monument is chimney shaped, rising from a rectangular base. Traces of a floral symbol are visible under a badly repaired break above the inscriptions. The names were still legible as of 2007 as "ELIZABETH A. SMITH" and "LOE ANNA SMITH" but traces only remain of the dates. The inscription was recorded in 1904 as "Elizabeth Smith, b. June 9, 1857, d. Feb 4, 1855 [sic] Loc [sic] Anna Smith, b. Jan 28, 1859, d. Jan. 8, 1865." In 1934, the stone was recorded as "Elizabeth A. Smith June 1853-1855 Loe Anna Smith, 1859-1865". Because of the disagreement in the transcription records, neither her birth nor her death year can be conclusively established.

sources
1860 U.S. Federal Census, Series M653 Roll 954 Page unlisted; Ancestry.com E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904; Adams St Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society "Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions," Vol. I, compiled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934 Elizabeth and Loe Anna Smith tombstone photograph, Jeremy Feador, 2007.