Charlotte Augusta Coles

1831 - 1913  (81 years)

• Name	Charlotte Augusta Coles
  Birth	18 Feb 1831	Lowell, Middlesex, MA
  Gender	Female
  Census	24 Jul 1860	Syracuse, Onondaga, NY
  	age 29, born MA
  Census	29 Jul 1870	Syracuse, Onondaga, NY
  	age 39, born MA, keeps house, sister Frances living in house
  Census	2 Jun 1875	Syracuse, Onondaga, NY
  	age 44, born MA, sister Frances in house
  Census	15 Jun 1880	Syracuse, Onondaga, NY
  	age 49, born MA, keeping hourse, parents born MA/MA
  Census	16 Feb 1892	Syracuse, Onondaga, NY
  	age 58, born US, sister Frances living in house
  Census	5 Jun 1900	Grinnell, Poweshiek, IA
  	age 68, born Apr 1832 in NY, widowed, 2/2 children living, parents born NY/NY, living with daughter's family
  Census	22 Apr 1910	Nashville, Davidson, TN
  	age 76, born MA, widowed, parents born MA/MA, living with daughter's family
  Death	5 Jan 1913	Grinnell, Poweshiek, IA
  Burial	8 Jan 1913	Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, NY
  Person ID	I1495	Family Tree
  Last Modified	12 Feb 2022

  
  

  Father	Larkin Baker Coles,   b. 10 Apr 1804, Westmoreland, Cheshire, NH d. 18 Jan 1856, Louisville, Jefferson, KY (Age 51 years)
  Mother	Sarah Marshall Dyar,   b. 2 Feb 1800, Boston, Suffolk, MA d. 22 Apr 1858, Syracuse, Onondaga, NY (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	3 Mar 1827	Middlebury, Addison, VT
  Histories		The Early Genealogies of the Cole Families in America
  Family ID	F334	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Silas Franklin Smith,   b. 22 Dec 1812, Lanesboro, Berkshire, MA d. 4 Dec 1898, Syracuse, Onondaga, NY (Age 85 years)  [1, 2, 3]
  Marriage	15 May 1851
  Children	+ 1. Stanley George Smith,   b. 12 Jun 1853, Syracuse, Onondaga, NY d. 30 Nov 1932, Cape Vincent, NY (Age 79 years) + 2. Isabel Augustus Smith,   b. Apr 1855, Syracuse, Onondaga, NY d. 1916 (Age 60 years)
  Histories		The Early Genealogies of the Cole Families in America
  		Syracuse and its Environs
  Family ID	F335	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Oct 2015

  
  

• Headstones

  Charlotte (Coles) Smith Gravestone CHARLOTTE A. / COLES SMITH / DIED JAN. 5, 1913

  
  

• Notes

  from "The Syracuse Journal", 8 Jan 1913 (findagrave.com) HER HUSBAND WAS FOUNDER OF JOURNAL Mrs. Smith Oldest Member of First Presbyterian Church At Time of Death. Mrs. Charlotte Coles Smith, 82, widow of Silas F. Smith, founder of the Syracuse Journal, who was the oldest living member of the First Presbyterian Church, died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George A. Gates, of Grinnell, Iowa. From the time of her marriage in Boston to Mr. Smith, she was a continuous resident of Syracuse, until the death of her husband in April, 1899. Since that time she has made her home with Mrs. Gates, first at Grinnell, Iowa, where Dr. Gates was president of Grinnell College, then at Colorado Springs, Col., Cheyenne, Wyo., and Claremont, Cal., during Dr. Gates’ pastorates in those cities, later at Nashville, Tenn., during Dr. Gates’ presidency of Fiske University, and during the past two years in Florida and Vermont. After the death of Dr. Gates in Florida seven weeks ago, Mrs. Smith went to Grinnell with the family for the burial, and contracted catarrhal bronchitis from which she never recovered.Mrs. Smith was the daughter of Dr. Larkin B. Coles of Boston, a prominent physician and author of “The Philosophy of Health.” She was born in Lowell, Mass., Feb. 18, 1831. She was educated in Charlestown Female Seminary and in 1851 married Silas F. Smith. WORKED FOR SOLDIERS. At the beginning of the Civil War, she became secretary of the Ladies Aid of Syracuse, an organization that for four years devoted their efforts to the soldiers in the field, forwarding lint, clothing and medicine. She was also one of the founders of the Social Arts Club of Syracuse and a life-long worker in the various activities of the First Presbyterian Church. During the many years of Mr. Smith’s active life as newspaper man and in business the family home in James st. was the center of many social activities and after relinquishing her permanent residence in Syracuse she retained her interest in the city, revisiting her home many times; her last visit being in the summer of 1911. LEAVES TWO CHILDREN. She is survived by one son, Stanley Smith of Syracuse, and a daughter, Mrs. Isabelle Smith Gates of Grinnell, Ia. There also survives the following grandchildren: The Rev. Henry Didama Smith, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Bainbridge, N. Y.; Mrs. Charlotte Smith Worsing, Mrs. Amelia Niven Burrows and Theodora Smith, all of Syracuse; Stanley Gates of Chicago, and Donald Smith Gates, a student in Grinnell College. The funeral will be held from the home of her son, Stanley G. Smith, 800 University av., Wednesday at 2 o’clock. Friends are invited. Burial at Oakwood will be private.

  
  

• Sources

  [S34] Cole, Frank Theodore, The early genealogies of the Cole families in America (including Coles and Cowles) , (Columbus, Ohio, Printed by Hann & Adair for the author, 1887), pg 231. [S35] Chase, Franklin H., Syracuse and its environs : a history, (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York ; Chicago, 1924), 280-281,663-665. [S47] Beauchamp, William Martin, Past and present of Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York : from prehistoric times to the beginning of 1908, (The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., New York, 1908), 276-282.