Descendants of William (W.) Smith Generation No. 1 1

14. JOHN AUGUSTIS⁴ SMITH (JOHN SULLIVAN³, WARREN S.², WILLIAM (W.)¹)⁶⁰ was born 13 Dec 1910 in Rendville, Perry Co., OH, and died 15 Apr 1975 in Good Sam. Hsp, Zanesville, Muskingum Co., OH⁶¹. He married THERESA ELIZABETH VIDA⁶² 28 Jul 1934 in Holy Name Ch., Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH, daughter of GEORGE VIDA and MARY VLASZACS. She was born 21 Dec 1914 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, OH, and died 13 Aug 2001 in Porter Hospice, Denver, Denver Co., CO⁶³.
Notes for JOHN AUGUSTIS SMITH:

My father loved life especially if it did not entail going to work (he was not lazy just enjoyed other things!!) He was born in Rendville, Ohio on December 13. 1910, (birth certificate # 8915, registration district # 3094, Perry County, Rendville OH. with his name being "Jr." He never used this.) Warren and Mary Jane Roberts Smith, His grandparents, mostly raised him in the little village of Hemlock, Ohio. He loved the outdoors & especially hunting and fishing. He did not finish grade school nor did he attend high school. Hence he was limited in reading & writing. He was an A+ student when it came to the school of life however. It was not easy to put one over on him. He was very street-wise & knew the ways of the world. My father saw Buffalo Bill in person when he was a little boy & I live about 3 miles from Buffalo Bill Cody's grave in Colorado.

He moved to Dayton, Ohio after working as a miner in the coal mines of Southern Ohio. He went to work at General Motors, Frigidaire division, in Moraine City, OH as a metal finisher of refrigerator bodies & held that job until he retired in about 1972. This was a back breaking job & he had the upper body strength to prove it. He was a jack-of-all-trades & a master at all; especially when it came to fixing cars. He ran a car repair business from his home garage and did quite well because of the quality of his work.

He met Theresa E. Vida, a waitress, at a restaurant in Dayton called "Brandt's". They were married on July 28, 1934 at St. Stephen's rectory in the old Hungarian Village, a walled city for immigrants. They had a large traditional Hungarian wedding He was a convert to Catholicism in 1951. He thought that education was every thing and hence his sons got the best education they wanted and/ or he could provide. In his younger years he could drink with the best of them and he always won. He took great pride in his home & living in North Dayton, far from his work in Moraine City. He was adored by his mother-in-law hence lots of meals were eaten at Grandma Vida's house. His wife loved him dearly but at times was perplexed with his obsessions dealing with hunting & fishing. He also liked to drink & smoke to excess periodically and this would cause problems with his tee-totaling, non-drinking wife.

During World War II, he was drafted by the Army but was declared "ineligible for service" due to a duodenal ulcer. He went back to Moraine City and made airplane propellers. I think that the great depression of 1929 and WW II severely impacted both my parents and made them overly frugal, suspicious, and cautious.

He loved to set trotlines in the Scioto River and catch huge catfish, hence his nickname "Catfish". His prize was a fifty-pounder. Later in life he began going deer hunting in Pennsylvania, New York and Canada. He usually got his deer and one time shot a large wildcat. He usually worked 16 hours a day either on fixing up other peoples cars or at another part time job. This made possible his many hobbies. He had all the paraphernalia for hunting & fishing. He would trap mink, muskrats and beaver. I would go on fox drives with him. He would gig frogs, catch turtles, hunt rabbits, squirrels, pheasant, and deer. He also tied fishing lures and loaded shells for his 30.06 rifle. His big desire was to go to Kodiak Island, Alaska and go bear hunting, but never got to live this fantasy. He did however become an honorary Indian. The tribe that he hunted with in Canada gave this honor. They liked him and his ability and made him a member...he even had a name. I believe they were the Algonquin Indians. He looked at Sports Afield and Outdoor Life religiously every month. He liked boating and we always had a boat. He liked to take 8 mm. movies of his family & the out of doors. He had a very nice gun collection. He was always busy doing things in the garage or basement. He was a religious man & liked to attend Mass. He liked to sing! & when we took auto rides " a reetso" he would sing in the car & had a good voice. He liked new cars & he enjoyed riding around in a green Karmen Ghia which he kept in perfect shape for many years. He loved to smoke cigarettes, eat cheese & crackers, especially Limburger, & get a jug of beer on Friday nights much to his wife's chagrin.

In 1949 the Smith's & Vida's leased a restaurant along old route 42 near Waynesville, OH. It was called the "Log Cabin Inn" because that is what it was a log cabin. It was nice, on a very busy highway with lots of trucks. Theresa was the head cook & Geo. & Phyl the backup crew. We did this one year...very hard & time consuming. We made a profit & closed the place. It was torn down & a shiny Interstate highway is where it was. While we were there Dale went to St. Brigid GS in Xenia, OH. It was coed & differant. He had a very good time!

In later life he spend a lot of time and eventually did retire on "the Muskingum River" in southern Ohio and do all his fun things. They lived in a new trailer home, off of Kosky Lane, on the banks of the river at R.R. #2, Box 123, Stockport Ohio. Historically, there is a small Revolutionary war cemetery nearby & the site of the very picturesque Big Bottom Indian Massacre is just down the road. He was a short, fun-loving, honest, hard workingman who always had a twinkle in his "elf-ish" eyes. He was a great dad who always wanted to protect his son's from the travails of life. He was able to enjoy retirement to the fullest & loved every moment of it although it wasn't very long.

He also enjoyed travel. When his son was in the USN, he got to travel to various cities and enjoy something new in his life. A different kind of adventure. Of course, the main reason to go was to see his grandchildren. He got to Calif., PA, NM, & Colorado which he loved.
His greatest pleasure however was his three, lovely grand-daughters & his daughter-in-law that he adored. He said he was never around them enough & at one point was planning to move to Colorado to be near them. He developed angina about 1973 which curtailed his activity and he said "if he couldn't hunt or fish; life would be unbearable." He came to Colorado in March of 1975 to attend the First Holy Communion of his three granddaughters at Christ the King Church. He developed severe angina and was hospitalized at Porter Memorial Hospital, had a cardiac catherization by Dr. Art Levine & advised to have bypass surgery & repair of a myocardial aneurysm. He returned to the river to "take care of things" & make a final decision about the surgery. On Tuesday, April 15. 1975 he went fishing. He came home to his trailer and died suddenly in the bedroom. He was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, Zanesville, Ohio and pronounced dead at 2:49 P.M. He had an acute myocardial infaction. His only wish would have been that he had died on the riverbank while fishing. He was 64 years, 4 months, 2 days.

He was buried from St. Stephens Church, Troy St, Dayton Ohio after Mass of Christian burial. He now lies on a knoll in Calvary Cemetery, Montgomery Co., OH (Patterson Blvd., in South Dayton-394329N 0841216W overlooking the very route that he took every day to work and "gets to see the workin' stiffs on their way to work, & I'll just smile." He is buried on St. Marks Dr. in Section 31, Lot 92, northeast corner.

Many photographs exist of him along with movies he took of his hunting trips to Canada with his friend Oscar Vorhees and fishing with the Filke family. His father (John S.) is shown helping him take the deer off the car X 2. He always said we were related to Amelia Earhart but I do not know how this could be. His brother, Delmar, knew her & participated in her last flight according to a cousin who knew him well as a young girl.

Dale J. Smith, M.D. 1994

More About JOHN AUGUSTIS SMITH:

Burial: 19 Apr 1975, Calvary Cem., Dayton, OH

Cause of Death: Acute Myocardial Infarction

Fact 2: raised by Grandparents- Warren & Mary Jane Roberts

Fact 5: 1971, retired-Stockport OH, Muskingum river

Medical Information: Dale J. Smith, MD

Social Security #: # 291-10-3241
Notes for THERESA ELIZABETH VIDA:

My mother was the child of an immigrant family from Hungary. She was born on Monday, 12-21-1914 at 10:15 AM at home by a midwife (Birth cert #7089) while they lived in a walled colony called Kossuth colony that was near the current St. Stephen's church at 1114 Troy St. The address was 130 Kossuth Colony. She was born on the shortest day of the year & hence she said that is why she was short (4 feet, 11 1/2 inches tall.) She had a younger brother, George, whom she dearly loved but there was sibling rivalry.

Theresa Vida's baptismal certificate & family hx is enclosed with a loose translation. It was translated by Gene Megassy, Hungarian Consul for Colorado. (10,000 Hungarians live in Colorado in 2002.)
Theresa Vida baptismal certificate & family hx a loose translation is as follows:
December 29, 1914

Greetings in the name of the Lord....In 1914 on December 21 a daughter was born & baptized on the 25th at Holy Name church, 416 Dale Ave., Dayton, OH. Her name is Theresa Vida. Vida, Gyorgy (George) and (W should be V) ie. Vlaszacs, Ida of the county of Szatmor in Sa'rkozujlok for George Vida. Jo'ssefhasar for (Marie or Mary) Ida Vida. They live in Dayton, Ohio at Kossuth colony (a closed, walled, area with factory-owned houses. They had to pay rent, buy food, clothes, necessary things at the company store to repay probably part or all of their ship fare.) Father Karoly (Carl or Charles) Policsek baptized her. Her Godparents in Hungary are Janos (John) Magyr and Csaki Eossebet (Elizabeth, from whom she received her middle name) She had substitute Godparents here.

(signed) Rev. Karoly Policsek
She attended Allen Public GS in No. Dayton, OH. She spoke only Hungarian when she enrolled in school & this was very hard for her, she always said. She then aspired to be a nurse but her father forbid this so she quit Kiser HS after her sophomore year & went to work.
She met my father while working at Brandt's restaurant on Troy St. They were married on 7-28-1934 in the Holy Name church rectory in West Dayton, OH since my father was Protestant (Non-catholics weren't married in church!). The priest was Fr. Voynich. They moved to a small house on Notre Dame Ave in No. Dayton, OH. John worked at Gen. Motors, Frigidaire division, Moraine City, OH. He wanted to live in the "country" & they had a house built in the suburbs. World War II put an end to that dream with no gasoline available & they moved to 421 Waneta Ave., Dayton, OH 45424. My mother worked most her adult life. She was a liberated woman way back then & for awhile ran a bar in No. Dayton near the Duriron Co. where her father worked. She worked at Rike's Dept store in the tearoom serving coffee for a while. Then she worked at David's uniform shop in No. Dayton in sales. She liked that work. In 1950 they along with Geo. & Phyllis Vida opened a restaurant near Waynesville, OH. This was difficult for there was no booze sold since this area was a "dry" county. She decided to get illegal slots! to bolster business & that it did till one day when the "other mob" came in & stole her machines & destroyed them. She was out of the gaming business as well as the restaurant business! She then worked in sales at Ontario, a large Target-like store, till she retired.
Mom was a religious woman & devout Catholic (despite the slots) who took religion very seriously. She attended mass regularly at St. Stephen's or Our Lady of the Rosary in No. Dayton, OH. She was a meticulous housekeeper & a superb cook, especially chicken dumplings or apple pie. (Both her recipes are still used by her g-daughters.) But she didn't like to make Xmas cookies! She was frank & forthright & you always knew where you stood with her. She didn't like outdoor things until later in life. She loved to sew & crochet so we had doilies everywhere. She was very against imbibing alcohol & all the men she knew drank, some more than they should. She was reliable & you could count on her in a pinch. She was loving with her sons but was not outwardly a kissing-mom. She was proud of their accomplishments but again this was not easily verbalized. She was a victim of the Great Depression of 1929, World War II & this altered her personality considerably, hence it was hard for her to "lighten up."
They retired about 1973 & moved to the Muskingum River near Stockport, OH on Kosky Rd. with my dad. They bought a large, new trailer home & they were in 7th heaven. Fishing, boating, eating fresh vegetables, shopping in Parkersburg, WV & playing cards. She attended St. James Church in Mc Connelsville, OH. My dad died in 1975 & she was single 5 years when she met a gentleman farmer, Ernest Denver Hambel, from Malta, OH. They were married by Msgr. Cullen in Englewood, CO. at St. Louis church on 1-20-1980. She then sold the old homestead on Waneta Ave & moved to Denver's farm near Malta, OH. She developed lots of friends & took up square dancing, bowling (she actually won a trophy,) lots of card parties and travel to see her sons & granddaughters in CO & CA. She attended St. James church in McConnellsville, OH. She always liked cars and loved motor trips. For a city slicker she readily took to being a farmer's wife to my surprise. She was exceedingly happy & proud of her g-daughters. She was a generous & loving g-mother.
In June, 1991 she had a triple by-pass done at Riverside Hsp in Columbus, OH. She was always a "lady of iron" and 23 hours after surgery she was having her hair done. A favorite thing she liked to do. She also had hypertension & neuralgia of unknown cause that caused lots of pain in her feet. She was not a very patient person.
In August 1994 she & Denver along with her sons & their spouses, g-daughters & their spouses & great granddaughter went to Maui, HI to celebrate her 80th birthday. She was stunned when we told her this was her birthday gift. It was a long, hard trip but she & Denver did very well. She went deep-sea fishing, eating & shopping. What fun! She especially enjoyed being with Katrina, her great g-daughter, & was down crawling on all 4's to teach her to crawl.
On 5-25-98 she was operated on at Good Sam Hsp, Zanesville, OH for a broken hip she sustained 2 days earlier & about 2 weeks later broke her humerus while in the hospital! She suffered considerable more confusion after this although her bones healed nicely & she became strong. She lived in the Inn at North Hills, Zanesville, OH till Denver's death. On January 8, 2000 she moved to Denver CO and resided at the Brighton Gardens of Lakewood CO. suffering from Alzheimer's disease. She has had a rocky time there but did enjoy being near her family. She was transferred to Porter hospice on 8-10-2001after a stroke. She died on 8-13-2001 at the age of 86 years, 7 months, 23 days. An aged Franciscan friar, Father Madden, said a very moving mass at the Mt. Olivet mortuary after a rosary service that was conducted by Suzanne & a eulogy was delivered by Karen. Anne was a pallbearer along with Don Smith, Rick Hambel, George Vida, III, Ben Vida & his friend Chris.

She was buried on 8-21-2001 in lot 93, Calvary cemetery, north-east corner off of St. Mark's drive, section 31 in Dayton, Ohio aside of John A. Smith. Denver Hambel died 12-15-99 & his cremains are buried in Dew Cemetery in Perry Co., Ohio near Burr Oak state park aside of his first wife, Betty Briggs Hambel.

Her obituary read as follows:
Theresa Smith Hambel

Homemaker

Theresa Smith Hambel passed to her eternal reward on 8-13-2001. She was a life long resident of Ohio and of Denver CO since January, 2000. She was born on 12-21-1914 in Dayton OH. She survived husbands, John A. Smith and Denver Hambel.
Her survivors include 2 sons, Dr. Dale (Lois) and Donald Smith (Karen). 3 grand daughters, Karen (Greg) Hoggatt, Suzanne Nuttall and Anne (Kyle) Durlam. She has 4 great-grand children, Katrina, Meredith, Trevor and Bryn. She has a nephew, George Vida, 2 grand-nieces, Erin and Rachel and a grand-nephew, Ben. In addition she has a stepdaughter, Emiria Kasler (Roger) and 2 step grandchildren, Tammy and Rick.
She loved crocheting, cooking, bingo, square dancing and was a trophy-winning bowler.
Funeral services will be held in Denver on 8-17-01 with burial at Calvary cemetery in Dayton, OH, following visitation at Maggetti-Gavin August 21, 12:30 to 1:30PM.
Contributions may be made to Porter Hospice, 2379 S. High St., Denver CO 80210.

Dale J. Smith, M.D./2002

More About THERESA ELIZABETH VIDA:

Burial: 21 Aug 2001, Calvary Cem., Dayton, OH

Cause of Death: Alzheimer's Disease, peripheral neuropathy, CAD

Fact 7: 20 Jan 1980, Married Denver Hambel, Denver CO

Medical Information: Dale J. Smith, MD

Retired: 1973, retired to Stockport, OH

Wed: 28 Jul 1934, John A. Smith, Dayton, Ohio
More About JOHN SMITH and THERESA VIDA:

Death of one spouse: 15 Apr 1975, Zanesville, Ohio

Marriage: 28 Jul 1934, Holy Name Ch., Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH

Marriage date: 28 Jul 1934, Marriage lic. # 80259, Probate Court, Montgomery Co., Dayton, OH

Children of JOHN SMITH and THERESA VIDA are:

20. i. DR. DALE JOSEPH⁵ SMITH, b. 25 Aug 1937, Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH.

ii. DONALD LEE SMITH⁶⁴, b. 12 Oct 1945, Dayton, Montgomery Co, OH; m. (1) BARBARA FIELDS, Sep 1966, Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH; b. 30 Mar 1947, Unk; m. (2) KAREN O'CONLEY⁶⁵, 24 Dec 1978, South Lake Tahoe, CA; b. 08 Sep 1947, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA.
Notes for DONALD LEE SMITH:

Donald Lee Smith was born on October 12, 1945 at Good Samaritan Hsp in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio. He was delivered by Dr. Henry Block. He was baptized and confirmed at Our Lady of the Rosary Church. He went to Our Lady of the Rosary GS. This school was founded in 1889. It was co-ed but the girls & boy's were separate. The Brothers of the Society of Mary taught the boys starting in 1903. He graduated from Chaminade High School in May, 1963. He was awarded his Associate Degree from the University of Dayton, Ohio in 1972. He was married to Barbara Fields in September,1966 and this marriage ended in divorce with no children.

He worked for Monsanto Corporation. He decided he did not want to work underground his whole life so he traveled around the USA and decided he wanted to move to South Lake Tahoe, Ca. and did so about 1972. Began living with Karen in 1978 and this has been a very happy union.
He enjoyed his motorcycle and sports car. He now enjoys reading, judo, wind-surfing in Maui, Hawaii where he owns a condo and tries to go frequently. Lives in South Lake Tahoe where he owns Sno-shoe Thompson's ski shops and gets his fair share of skiing and snow boarding.
No children.

Dale Smith 1995

More About DONALD LEE SMITH:

Fact 1: 1972, Grad- Assoc. Degree, Univ of Dayton, OH

Fact 2: 1963, Grad- Chaminade HS, Dayton, OH
More About DONALD SMITH and BARBARA FIELDS:

Divorce: Aug 1968, Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH

Marriage: Sep 1966, Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH
More About DONALD SMITH and KAREN O'CONLEY:

Partners: 24 Dec 1978, South Lake Tahoe, CA

15. HELEN M.⁴ SMITH (JOHN SULLIVAN³, WARREN S.², WILLIAM (W.)¹)⁶⁶ was born 02 Jun 1916 in Hemlock, Perry Co., OH, and died 08 Jun 1989 in Washington Court House, Fayette Co., OH⁶⁷. She married (1) GEORGE BOK⁶⁸. She married (2) CHARLES "BUD" SMALL. He was born Abt. 1912 in Phillipsburg, OH area, and died 09 Oct 1967 in Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH. She married (3) ROBERT ELLIOTT.
Notes for HELEN M. SMITH:

Helen Smith Small was an aunt who was very friendly and lively. She loved a good party and was the star. She was very particular about her appearance & her house. She loved to cook & work in her flower garden. She was attractive & had a baby face. she also had the nicest, clearest, tightest, ivory skin a woman would ever want, my wife says.

She was married four times. Her first and last husband was George Elliot. Her second husband was George Bok & they had a daughter, Iona, that was the pride of their lives. Iona eventually married & moved to California. She had a son named Mark. Iona died of cancer of the breast with metastasis about 1966 and is buried in California. I did not know her husband.
Helen's 3rd husband was Charles "Bud" Small who was a short, portly, lovable, kindhearted man. In the spring of 1967 he had cancer of the pancreas & died in St. Elizabeth Hsp, Dayton, OH. on 10-9-1967 at 3:30 AM after suffering horrible protracted pain & inability to eat. He went from 175# to 65# when he died & is buried at Arlington Cemetery in Phillipsburgh, Ohio. This is the area he was from & raised there.
Helen remarried her first husband who was retired military shortly before her death. She was very severely crippled with rheumatoid arthritis. She died in a nursing home in Washington Court house, OH. on 6-8-1989. Services at Magetti funeral home, Valley St., North Dayton OH. She is buried aside of "Bud" Small. She was very close to her halfbrother, John A. Smith, till her death.

Dale J. Smith, MD 2002

More About HELEN M. SMITH:

Burial: 13 Jun 1989, Arlington cemetery, Phillipsbugh, OH

Cause of Death: Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis

Social Security #: 289-07-3736
Notes for CHARLES "BUD" SMALL:

Uncle Bud Small was a short, portly fellow. He was the nicest man you could know. He lived at a beautiful home outside Dayton, Ohio. I don't remember his occupation. He developed cancer of pancreas when he was about 55. Ke weighed 165# and at the time of his death 3 months later he weighed 65#. He suffered terribly and had chronic pain with inability to eat. He was too nice to have to suffer this. He did like the horses and would bet om them all the time and usually did well. Near his death his luck went sour along with his health. He was a wonderful person & I am so glad I knew him. He was buried from Magetti Funeral home on Valley St., Dayton, OH. He had a service at Emanuel Church in Phillipsburg, OH and was buried at Arlington cemetery in Phillipsburg, OH with many people in attendance.

Dale Smith, MD
More About CHARLES "BUD" SMALL:

Burial: Arlington cemetery, Phillipsburg OH

Cause of Death: Cancer of pancreas with metastasis

Medical Information: Dale J. Smith, MD

Marriage Notes for HELEN SMITH and ROBERT ELLIOTT:

Perry Co. Marriage Index.

Child of HELEN SMITH and GEORGE BOK is:

21. i. IONA⁵ BOK, b. 07 Jan 1934, Ohio; d. 01 Jul 1966, California.

16. CARL E.⁴ SMITH (JOHN SULLIVAN³, WARREN S.², WILLIAM (W.)¹)⁶⁸ was born Sep 1919 in Hemlock, Perry Co., OH, and died Abt. 1992⁶⁸.
Notes for CARL E. SMITH:

Was listed in the 1920 US census living in Perry county, Salt Lick Township, Hemlock Village, Ohio. He was 5/12 old.

Carl Smith was living in Dayton. OH area and was in the contracting business, I do believe.

DJS

Children of CARL E. SMITH are:

i. JACK⁵ SMITH⁶⁸.

ii. JERRY SMITH⁶⁸.