Person:Eldora Smith (1)

FATHER: Harry Deitrich Smith MOTHER: Beatrice York

Census 1930, Friendship Twp, Yellow Medicine County, MN: Smith, Harry D. - Head - Rents [no value given] - has Radio - Farm - Male - White - Age 41 - Married at 25 - Born Iowa - Both parents b. Denmark - Farmer, Farming - not Veteran " Beatrice - Wife - Female - White - Age 35 - Married at 18 - Born (& both parents) Iowa " -- 2 older sons, 3 older daughters -- " ELDORIA C. [indexed as Elolia C.) - Daughter - Female - White - Age 6 - not in school - Born Minnesota

Census 1940, Friendship Twp, Yellow Medicine County, MN: Smith, Harry D. - Head - Male - White - Age 52 - Married - Education, 7 yrs school - Born Iowa - 1935 residence, Same house - At work - Farming, Farm - Worked 52 wks, Earned $40 " Beatrice - Wife - Female - White - Age 46 - Education, 8 yrs school - Born Iowa " -- 1 older son, 2 older daughters -- " Eldora C. - Daughter - Female - White - Age 16 - At school, 1st yr High - Born Minnesota

E-mail from daughter Julie Caufield Hanscombe, 2005: [Austin] left to join the Marines and met my mother in California when his ship was in San Diego for repairs. My mother was from Minnesota, but living with an aunt and uncle in California (to escape the farm in Minnesota!). She met my Dad at a roller skating rink one afternoon, they were married six weeks later. He shipped her to NY to live in his hometown until he got back from duty. My grandmother (Dorothy) was less than thrilled that my Dad had met and married my Mom, she apparently had a hometown girl all picked out for him to marry. He'd not followed the game plan! There were other issues too, I suppose, but my Mom and Dorothy were never particularly close, as a result I know almost nothing about her or her siblings or the Durgee family. What a loss. --- e-mail from

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Syracuse Post-Standard, 5 Jan 1998: ELDORA C. CAUFIELD WALKER Eldora C. Caufield Walker, 73, formerly of the Sandy Creek-Pulaski area, died Saturday at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley, Colo. She owned and operated the Sandy Creek Liquor Store until 1982, when she moved to Florida. Her first husband, Rod Caufield, died in 1966. Her second husband, James Walker, died in 1989. Surviving are two sons, Dennis A. Caufield of Houston, Texas, and Kim D. Caufield of Pulaski; three daughters, Peggy S. Johnson of Buffalo, Minn., Julie A. Hanscome of Kersey, Colo., and Christine Dunning of Denver, Colo.; a stepdaughter, Lynne Walker of Denver, Colo.; two stepsons, James Walker of Manitou Springs, Colo., and Douglas Walker of Vail, Colo.; two sisters, Florence Bruns of Minneota, Minn., and Beatrice Silver of Shoreview, Minn.; 10 grandchildren...

1. ↑ Descendants of Patrick Caufield. (Name: Electronic;)
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2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).
3. ↑ (Obituary)
   Syracuse Post-Standard, 5 Jan 1998:.

   ELDORA C. CAUFIELD WALKER Eldora C. Caufield Walker, 73, formerly of the Sandy Creek-Pulaski area, died Saturday at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley, Colo

4. ↑ Find A Grave.