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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: female

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

Diuguid ID Number:

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
1876/02/15
1903/03/17
Royal Alexander
1844/06/18
1919/07/06
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.