Howard Hampton Smith, Sr.

1907 - 1985  (77 years)

• Name	Howard Hampton Smith
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	6 Jun 1907	Haddon Heights, Camden, NJ
  Gender	Male
  Death	9 Jan 1985	Camden County, NJ
  	Findagrave.com Howard Hampton Smith, Sr (Ref photos of Howard attached to this website) Birth: Jun. 6, 1907 Haddon Heights Camden County New Jersey, USA Death: Jan. 9, 1985 Camden County New Jersey, USA Burial: Colestown Cemetery Colestown Camden County New Jersey, USA Plot: Section R, Plot 148 Created by: Saralyn Record added: Jul 17, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 28350164
  Person ID	I29301	Drollinger Genealogy
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2017

  
  

  Father	Jacob Grayson Smith,   b. 30 Aug 1878, NJ d. 25 Nov 1952, Middleton, Dauphin, PA (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Louise Augusta Boettner,   b. 1 Jul 1881, PA d. 19 Apr 1976, Haddon Heights, Camden, NJ (Age 94 years)
  Family ID	F10478	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Wood Hunt,   b. 17 Mar 1910, Haddonfield, Camden, NJ d. 17 Jun 1974, Voorhees Twp, Camden County, NJ (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F10480	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2016

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 6 Jun 1907 - Haddon Heights, Camden, NJ Death - 9 Jan 1985 - Camden County, NJ  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Howard Hampton Smith was born on June 6, 1907, to Jacob Grayson Smithand Louise A. Boettner Smith, the oldest of three children. Hissiblings were Paul and Alice. Sometime after the three children were born, Jacob Grayson Smith (wholater changed his name to Grayson W. Smith) left his wife andchildren, though he and Louise were never divorced. Louise raised thechildren on her own, living in a big old white house in HaddonHeights, NJ. The original part of the old house predated theRevolutionary War, and the house was later designated an historicalbuilding; various wings and additions were made to the house over thecenturies. (Louise lived in the house with her married daughter,Alice, until her death, and Alice and her married daughter, Tina,occupied this historic house until Tina's death.) During his teen years, Howard, along with his siblings, helped hismother to run a restaurant at the house, and he became an accomplishedcook. He attended the University of Miami in Florida for two years, and wason their Varsity football team in 1930. He married Elizabeth Wood Hunt at Grace Episcopal Church, Haddonfield,New Jersey, on October 9, 1935. He and Elizabeth made their first homein an apartment on King's Highway in Haddonfield, next to the Haddon Fortnightly Building. He and Liz had three sons; the first was stillborn in January, 1943.The second was called "Hamp," and a third son was called "Jim." The family moved to a house in the woods on Gibbsboro-Kresson Road,Voorhees Township, in 1953. Howard held several different positions during his lifetime, including driving a bus and selling cars. During the Second World War, he workedfor the New York Shipbuilding Company. He was an acclaimed carsalesman with Turney Ford, Turnersville, NJ, for many years, not retiring until he was 70 years old. Following his retirement, he enjoyed travel and sightseeing. He drove from New Jersey to Kansas many times to visit his son Hamp and wife Saralyn, and visited them with great joy when his two grandchildren were born: Laura Elizabeth, and Robert Hampton Smith on September 8,1983. He had just returned home to New Jersey from a visit to Kansas and also to California in December, 1984, when he became ill. He died on January 9, 1985, and was buried next to his wife, Elizabeth, at Colestown Cemetery, Cherry Hill, New Jersey. I want to thank Georgia Lass for finding, clearing, and photographing my father-in-law's marker!