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Surnames: SMITH, GENEREAU, DUVERNAY
Classification: queries
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Message Board Post:
So glad to hear from you. My closest connection to your family is just through Otho's
wife Erlena Genereau Smith, related to me by marriage. I found correspondence from her
in family records in NW Michigan, and have tried to track down any possible descendants of
both Otho and Erlena, but came to a dead end except for Otho's obituary. I spent
several days in central IN last year looking through records, but never was able to find
how many descendants the two had, or if there are any living now. I suspect Erlena died
in a state facility, possibly related to TB which many of her close relatives also had,
but on my last trip I was not even able to learn where the Indiana state sanitarium might
have been between 1915-1930. They had at least 2 children, one named Clara, who may have
died young, the other named Hiawatha Manetho Smith, who was still living in 1949. I am
trying to learn if Otho & Erlena have any living descendants. (Erlena's name has
been misspelled about !
6 different very creative ways. I don't know if Otho had more than one wife.)