Anna Edith (Amelang) Smith
Updated Feb 10, 2019
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Anna Edith (Amelang) Smith (1909 - 1960)

Anna Edith (Amelang) Smith was born in 1909 in Iowa. She was born into the Amelang family and married into the Smith family. She was born to Bessie Lillian Dyer Amelang and Robert Edward Amelang , with siblings Albert, William, Carl, Marie, Fredrick, Mary, and Betty. Anna died on October 23, 1960 in Iowa at age 51. She was buried in Bloomfield IOOF Cemetery, Iowa. We know that Anna Edith (Amelang) Smith had been residing in Iowa United States.
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Birth

 in Iowa United States

Death

 on in Bloomfield County, Iowa United States

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Burial / Funeral

at Bloomfield IOOF Cemetery, in Bloomfield County, Iowa United States

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Iowa United States

Average Age

Anna Edith (Amelang) Smith lived 21 years shorter than the average Amelang family member when she died at the age of 51.

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Family

Mother: Bessie Lillian Dyer Amelang
Father: Robert Edward Amelang
Siblings: Albert Edward Amelang, William Franklin Amelang , Carl Henry Amelang , Marie Fay (Amelang) Boas, Fredrick Everett Amelang , Mary Lucille (Amelang ) Skinner, and Betty Jean (Amelang) Fowler

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Edith

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Amelang

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1909 - In the year that Anna Edith (Amelang) Smith was born, the NAACP was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois. The organization focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day - which included lynching and segregation in schools. The goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution.

1915 - At the age of merely 6 years old, Anna was alive when Audrey Munson, playing a model for a sculptor in the film "Inspiration", became the first actress to shed her clothes on screen. Fearing that banning the film would mean that censors would also have to "ban Renaissance art" the film was released, with Munson in the nude scenes and a stand-in doing the acting. (Munson had previously been "America's First Supermodel" and posed nude as the model for many famous artworks.) The film was a hit with audiences.

1928 - By the time she was 19 years old, Mickie Mouse was born! He first appeared in Disney's Steamboat Willie, along with Minnie. Although they were in two previous shorts, this was the first to be distributed. Steamboat Willie took advantage of the new technology and was a "talkie" - music was coordinated with the animation. It became the most popular cartoon of its day.

1945 - When she was 36 years old, on April 12th, Harry S. Truman sworn in as President of the United States at 7p in Washington, D.C. His first term lasted 3 years and 283 days - then he ran for re-election.

1960 - In the year of Anna Edith (Amelang) Smith's passing, on May 1st, an American CIA U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Soviet Union. Powers ejected and survived but was captured. The U.S. claimed that the U-2 was a "weather plane" but Powers was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage. He was released in 1962 after 1 year, 9 months and 10 days in prison.

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Anna Edith (Amelang) Smith passed away on October 23, 1960 in Iowa at 51 years old. There is no listed cause of death for Anna. She was buried in Bloomfield IOOF Cemetery, Iowa. Anna was born in 1909 in Iowa. She was born to Bessie Lillian Dyer Amelang and Robert Edward Amelang , with siblings Albert, William, Carl, Marie, Fredrick, Mary, and Betty. We know that Anna Edith (Amelang) Smith had been residing in Iowa United States.

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