Eleventh Generation (Continued)
Eleventh Generation (Continued)
Family of Antoinette Sophia Elizabeth Lohnes (1374) & Benjamin Conrad Smith
2585. Gladys Beatrice Smith (Antoinette Sophia Elizabeth Lohnes10, Mary Catherine Weynacht9, John Henry8, Anna Marie Fiener7, Johannes (John) Feener6, Anna Barbara Meisner5, Casper Meissner4, Johann Daniel Meysner3, Casper Meißner2, Thomas1). Born on 25 Aug 1894 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.8,10 Gladys Beatrice died in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 3 Dec 1971; she was 77.10,61 Occupation: Nurse. She was never married.

Gladys Smith graduated in 1919 from Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing, New York, New Yotk. She practised in New Rochelle, New York until 1932 when she returned to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. She was a well-known Red Cross worker and was made honourary vice president of the Nova Scotia Division in 1963. Gladys Smith was a former president of St. John’s Anglican Church Santuary Guild and was dorcas secretary of the women’s auxiliary of the church. She was treasurer of the South Shore Art Association.61

2586. Wallace Wyniard Smith (Antoinette Sophia Elizabeth Lohnes10, Mary Catherine Weynacht9, John Henry8, Anna Marie Fiener7, Johannes (John) Feener6, Anna Barbara Meisner5, Casper Meissner4, Johann Daniel Meysner3, Casper Meißner2, Thomas1). Born abt 1896 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada. Wallace Wyniard died in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 31 Aug 1989; he was 93.61,10 Occupation: Accountant.

Wallace Smith graduated from Kings College, Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1916 and Nova Scotia Technical College in 1918 with a B.Sc. in civil engineering, winning the Governor Generalis medal. He served overseas with the Canadian Army, First Battalion Railway Troops, during the First World War. After the war, he worked for the Canadian Geological Survey before entering the fishing industry in 1920. At various times he was director of W.C. Smith and Co. and director and president of Lunenburg Sea Products Ltd. He had been a director of National Sea Products since its formation in 1945 and a senior vice-president for 20 years.

He was involved in many facets of the seafood business and was one of its outstanding leaders and innovators until his retirement in 1968. He was instrumental in the development and implementation of the original cold storage, the fish meal plant, smoked and salt fish operations and the artificial ice-making machine at Lunenburg Sea Products. He was also instrumental in the modernization of fishing vessels. His major contributions to the design and building of the trawlers Cape North and Cape LaHave, the first diesel trawlers in Canada, which led to a new era in fishing vessel construction on the Atlantic coast of Canada.

Wallace Smith was a director of Eastern Trust Company, now Canada Trust Company for 25 years and chairman of the local committee, director of Lunenburg Marine Railway Ltd. and commissioner of Lunenburg War Memorial Community Centre. He was responsible for drastic reductions in marine insurance and formed the Lunenburg Fisherman’s Mutual Insurance Association. He was president of the association as well as the Fisherman's Mutual Relief Association.

He served twice as town councillor and was chairman of the water committee. He was a past president of Lunenburg branch, Royal Canadian Legion. For many years he was assistant treasurer of St. John’s Anglican Church and served on the vestry as chairman of the property committee.

A keen sportsman all his life, Wallace Smith was captain and treasurer of Lunenburg Hockey Club and played the sport until he was 36. He was instrumental in the rebuilding of the Lunenburg Arena after it burned down in 1929. He became president of Lunenburg Tennis Club in 1920 and with his brother, Owen Smith, was responsible for resurrecting the courts and later rebuilding them. He was also an active member of Bluenose Gold Club. For many years he was president and treasurer of Lunenburg Curling Club and was largely responsible for building the new curling arena, delivering the first stone at its opening. He was a member of the 1950 Canadian curling team to Scotland and was one of the first inductees into Lunenburg Curling Hall of Fame.

In later years he travelled extensively throughout the world and spent his winters in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he was a member of the lawn bowling club.61

On 23 Oct 1929 Wallace Wyniard married Audrey Marie Smith, daughter of Richard Wesley Smith & Ella Mary Walters, in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.8 Born abt Jan 1902 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada. Audrey Marie died in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 13 Aug 1999; she was 97.61 Buried on 17 Aug 1999 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.61 Occupation: Book Keeper.

After graduating from Lunenburg Academy, Audrey Smith attended Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick. She then went to work with Robin, Jones and Whitman (a dried fish exporter in Halifax and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) until her marriage in 1929 to the late Wallace W. Smith, also of Lunenburg.

Audrey Smith was a true “Daughter of the Fisheries” and was the last of her clan. In 1921 she christened the original schooner Bluenose which was built in her father’s shipyard, Smith and Rhuland Company. She was a member of St. John’s Anglican Church, Lunenburg, where she served on the Chancel Guild and the choir for many years. She was a member of the Boscawen Chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE) and the Ladies Auxiliary of the Fishermen’s Memorial Hospital in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Audrey Smith was a co-founder of the Auxiliary’s Dutch Oven cookbook. She was a member of the Lunenburg Heritage Society and the Lunenburg Academy Foundation. She had been a member of the Lunenburg Yacht Club and was active in the ladies Curling Club and the Bluenose Gold Club.61

They had the following children:
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2587. Owen Benjamin Smith (Antoinette Sophia Elizabeth Lohnes10, Mary Catherine Weynacht9, John Henry8, Anna Marie Fiener7, Johannes (John) Feener6, Anna Barbara Meisner5, Casper Meissner4, Johann Daniel Meysner3, Casper Meißner2, Thomas1). Born on 23 Jul 1898 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.4,8,10 Owen Benjamin was baptized in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 26 Oct 1898.4,8 Owen Benjamin died in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 24 Nov 1987; he was 89.61 Occupation: Teacher, School Principal.

After graduating from Kings College, Windsor in 1923, Owen Smith went to Glace Bay, Nova Scotia to teach at Glace Bay High School. Later he became principal of the school and went on to become supervisor of schools, a position he held until retiring in 1965. Upon retirement, he and his wife came to his hometown of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

While attending Kings College, he captained the college hockey team and later coached hockey and football at Glace Bay High School. He was made a serving brother of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Owen Smith was involved with Cub and Boy Scouts for more than 50 years and was a district scout commissioner for most of that time. In 1959 he was awarded the Medal of Merit by the Boy Scouts of Canada and served on the provincial council until his death.

Owen Smith was a member onf St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Glace Bay where he served on the vestry of St. Mary's Church in Glace Bay. He was a church warden during his years in Cape Breton. In Lunenburg, he was on the church council of St. John's Anglican Church.

He was a member of the board of governors of the University of Kings College and was awarded an honorary doctor of canon law degree in 1954 by that institution for his work with youth and the church. He was a life member of the Tyrian Youth Lodge, Maple Leaf Chapter in Glace Bay; a life member of Unity Masonic Lodge 4 of Lunenburg; the Order of the Eastern Star, Lunenburg Chapter; the Preceptory, in Sydney, Nova Scotia; the Philae Temple Shrine in Halifax, Nova Scotia; and the Jesters in Sydney. He was also a past president of the Glace Bay Rotary Club.61

On 19 Jul 1933 Owen Benjamin first married Isabel Florence Tamar Jackson in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.8 Born on 30 Dec 1903 in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.8 Isabel Florence Tamar died in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 9 Jan 1968; she was 64.61,10 Occupation: Teacher.

They had the following children:
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Owen Benjamin second married Margaret Kathleen Howie. Born on 21 Jul 1906 in Donkin, Cape Breton Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.10 Margaret Kathleen died in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 21 May 1972; she was 65.61,10

2588. Beulah Jean Smith (Antoinette Sophia Elizabeth Lohnes10, Mary Catherine Weynacht9, John Henry8, Anna Marie Fiener7, Johannes (John) Feener6, Anna Barbara Meisner5, Casper Meissner4, Johann Daniel Meysner3, Casper Meißner2, Thomas1). Born abt 1899 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada. Beulah Jean died in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 26 Mar 1994; she was 95.61 Buried in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.

Jean Morrow graduated from nursing in 1922 from Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. She was a member of St. John's Anglican Church, Lunenburg as well as the Chancel Guild and the Women's Institute of the church. She took an active part in the community and was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of Fishermen’s Memorial hospital; member of the Bluenose Golf Club and Lunenburg Curling Club; honourary life member of the Lunenburg Yacht Club; past regent and honourary regent of the Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire (IODE); and past president of the local Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) board. Jean Morrow was a resident of Mader’s Cove, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.

On 15 Jul 1925 Beulah Jean married Clarence Joseph Morrow, son of James Francis Morrow & Adeline Marie Mahoney, in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.4,8 Born on 13 Sep 1895 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.8 Occupation: Clerk, Accountant.

J.C. Morrow worked at W.C. Smith and Co., Ltd. in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

They had the following children:
3515i.
James Benjamin (1926-2011)
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3517iii.
2589. Audrey Marie Smith (Antoinette Sophia Elizabeth Lohnes10, Mary Catherine Weynacht9, John Henry8, Anna Marie Fiener7, Johannes (John) Feener6, Anna Barbara Meisner5, Casper Meissner4, Johann Daniel Meysner3, Casper Meißner2, Thomas1). Born on 29 Sep 1903 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.10 Audrey Marie died in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 30 Sep 1903; she was <1.10

2590. Margaret Kathleen Smith (Antoinette Sophia Elizabeth Lohnes10, Mary Catherine Weynacht9, John Henry8, Anna Marie Fiener7, Johannes (John) Feener6, Anna Barbara Meisner5, Casper Meissner4, Johann Daniel Meysner3, Casper Meißner2, Thomas1). Born on 14 Nov 1908 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.8,10 Margaret Kathleen died in Halifax, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 5 Jul 1932; she was 23.8,10

Margaret Smith was a librarian. She died in Halifac, Nova Scotia from injuries sustained in a car collision. She suffered a fracxture to the base of the skull resulting in brain injuries. The humerus and mandible were also fractured.

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