Clara Alexander Smith

ID Number: T04140

Biographical Data

Basic Identification

Gender: female Ethnicity: Immigration: Attributed Race: black Free or Enslaved: free

Birth & Family

Birth Date: 1872/03/06 Birthplace: Bedford County, Virginia Mother: Amalia Terry Alexander Father: Royal Alexander 1st Spouse: Theodore Parker Smith 2nd Spouse: none

Age Details

Age: 49 Age Group: adult (20-59)

Life Details

Occupation(s): school teacher; professor at Tuskegee Institute Last Church: Military Service: Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia Last Address: 1301 Filmore Street

Death

Death Date: 1921/04/25 Death Note: none Place of Death: home Cause of Death: pulmonary tuberculosis

Burial & Undertaking

Burial Date: 1921/04/27 Funeral Home: People's Undertaking Company Indigent?: private interment

Gravesite and Grave Marker Data

Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: none Section: unknown Confirmation Source for Location: Grave Marker Erector(s): Confirmation Source for Interment: official ledger

Others In Same Plot (T0189)

Full Name

Birth Date

Death Date

James Hayes Alexander

Amalia H. Terry Alexander

1846/02/15

1925/07/28

Obituary and Biographical Detials

According to her death certificate, she contracted tuberculosis in Alabama. She was living on the Tuskegee Institute campus in the 1920 census (31 January 1920), working as a teacher in the normal school.

Husband was owner/president of Smith’s Business College, 900 Fifth Street

According to Tuskegee University Archives, she was a faculty member from 1919 to 1921.