Author talk:Henry Clay Smith

Detail that I can find. Find a death date after 1942 (last known residence) is going to be a little tricky though at least this is time and place. Seems that he ditched his first wife when in London, and got rehitched, though I couldn't see a marriage in England. The Arts! — billinghurst  sDrewth  23:27, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

=Sources=
 * Smith (1885-?) was married to Lee White, ran the Lee-White Company, owned and operated the Strand Theatre in London, and toured in the UK and Australia. Info (sparse at is is) can be found
 * https://www.historyforsale.com/lee-white-photograph-signed-co-signed-by-clay-smith/dc146815
 * https://www.fredgodfreysongs.ca/Whats_New.htm
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20081229072545/http://www.brucebairnsfather.org.uk:80/index_files/page0055.htm, and
 * apparently in the book Horses Don’t Fly: A Memoir of World War I, by Frederick Libby (New York: Arcade, 2000)
 * Interesting amount of information in Trove for Australian aspects, including some bankruptcy stuff https://trove.nla.gov.au/result?q=%22clay+smith%22+%22Lee+White%22
 * Newspaper images at http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article212485970
 * Full names http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222994041
 * 1929 article that mentions prior death of Lee White (=> c. 1926-1929) http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245518115

Passport
Name: 	Henry Clay Smith Gender: 	Male Age: 	30 Birth Date: 	12 Feb 1885 Birth Place: 	Batesville, Arkansas Residence Place: 	St Louis, Missouri Passport Issue Date: 	26 Aug 1915 Spouse: 	Christine Nielsen Smith Has Photo: 	Yes Certificate Number: 	9776
 * National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; Roll #: 264; Volume #: Roll 0264 - Certificates: 6301-6700, 26 Aug 1915-31 Aug 1915

WWII
Name: 	Henry Clay Smith, retired Gender: 	Male Race: 	White Residence Age: 	57 Birth Date: 	12 Feb 1885 Birth Place: 	Batesville, Arkansas, USA Residence Date: 	1942 Residence Place: 	Prairie Du Rocher, Illinois, USA Relationship to Draftee: 	Head Military Draft Date: 	1942
 * The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards (Fourth Registration), for The State of Illinois; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147; Series Number: M2097

=Anna Lee White Smith=

Death Anna Lee White
Name: 	Anna Lee Smith [Anna Lee White] Gender: 	Female Marital status: 	Married Age: 	47 Death Date: 	3 Dec 1927 Death Place: 	Spokane, Spokane, Washington Father: 	Charles White Mother: 	Mattie A. Hunt Spouse: 	Henry Clay Smith FHL Film Number: 	2022418
 * Dec 1927 death of Lee White, Spokane, Washington http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article121693738
 * Washington, Death Certificates, 1907-1960. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Anna Lee White Birth 	26 Mar 1880 Death 	3 Dec 1927 (aged 47)   (thei Burial 	Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA Plot 	Mausoleum, L-15, White family vault Memorial ID 	143542237
 * Find a Grave (note death transcription error on website, corrected here)

Passport Anna Lee Smith
Name: 	Lee White Smith Gender: 	Female Age: 	41 Birth Date: 	26 Mar 1880 Birth Place: 	Louisiana, Missouri Residence Place: 	London, England Passport Issue Date: 	4 Jan 1922 Spouse: 	Henry Clay Smith, b. Batesville, Arkansas Has Photo: 	Yes Certificate Number: 	108588
 * Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925 > 1921-1922 > Roll 1805 - Certificates: 108276-108599, 03 Jan 1922-04 Jan 1922