Maud Rue Smith was born on 9. Dec. 1884 or 9. Dec. 1885 at Payson, Utah County, Utah. She was the daughter of
Rev. John Andrew Livingston Smith and
Mary Louisa Johnson. Maud Rue Smith married
Col. William Dey Herbert M. D., son of
Charles A. Herbert and
Josephine S. Clayton.
Maud Rue Smith and
Col. William Dey Herbert M. D. appeared on the census of 25. Feb. 1920 at Fort Totten, Queens, Queens County, New York. Maud Rue Smith died on 5. Jul. 1975 at Orinda, Alameda County, California. Both Maud and her husband Col. William Dey Herbert b. 17 Dec 1881 d. 28 June 1967, are buried at Golden Gate National Cemetary in South San Fancisco, CA (plot P1303). Maud was born and spent her early years in Peyson, UT (south of Utah Lake in utah Co., Utah). Her parents were Presbyterian missionaries establishing congregations and schools in Utah. Her life ithere was hard, as they lived off the parrish and faced discrimination from the Morman majority. Sundays were spent entirely indoors studying the Bible.The family returned to their native York Co., Pennsylvania when Maud was a teenager (family appears in the 1900 US Fed Census for Hopewell, York Co., PA. "Maud R." is listed as age 15). She worked in a discount store (I believe her uncle, William Carlisle Smith of Cross Roads, Hopewell township- was involved in the "general store" business- she may have worked for him) to help support her family and her education.
Maud graduated first in her class from Hahnemann University, (The Presbyterian Hospital of Philadelphia) nurses training school, in Philadelphia, PA, in May 1911. She received amonetary award of about $20, which was a lot of money in 1911. While a student there, she met her future husband, Col. William Dey Herbert, a medical student at near by Jefferson Medical School (He graduated 1st in his class as well, Maud would wear the "Class Key" he received for his efforts on a chain around her neck. I have a photo. portrait of Maud and her daughter, in which one can see the key on her necklace chain. It is still in the family). They can both be found in Ward 24 of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA - Maud is on page 117B and Bill is on page 118B. There was a park that seperated their colleges and of course it was "against the rules" for the students to involved romantically, as they were, and so they met secretly in the park. Maud was liscenced by the state of Pennsylvania as a Registered Nurse on 17 Jan 1912. (While in the nursing home towards the end of her days, she broke her hip while trying to get up to "nurse" the other patients).
She gave birth to her only child, a daughter named Jean McAllister (Maud's paternal grandmother's maiden name was McAllister, and it was Maud's brother's middle name and now it is the middle name of this tree's author's niece) Herbert in late October, 1914 at Fort Houston in San Antonio, TX, while her husband was in France serving in the U.S.A. Medical Corps (WWI). Maud and William miscarried their second child in the Phillipines, where Bill was stationed sometime around 1915-19.
Maud's strict religious upbringing led to a lack of religious practice, and interest, in her adult years.
Both she and her husband were avid readers. She enjoyed sports. Maud was not to be disturbed during baseball season, and she landed a hole in one at the Fort Mills Golf Club in 1935 (I have her little trophy). Maud was preceeded in death first by her husband, then her daughter, but lived to personally know all but two of her 14 great grandchildren (from Maud descend 13 great grandchildren as well), and left behind two siblings, a brother Samson H. M. "Hodge" Smith of MD and a sister, Ethel W.(Smith) Sicklemoore of PA? or MD? (both now deceased). Maud died of congestive heart failure on 4 July 1975.
Her father was a minister named Rev. John Andrew Livingston Smith. He attended Princeton Theology Seminary as well as West T. S. He was ordained in Monmouth Co. NJ on 24 June 1870, preaching there and in Englishtown (1879-81) before beginning his mission in Utah.
Maud married a man (William Dey Herbert, II.) with many strong Presbyterian family ties in Monmouth - I find it hard to believe that the Smith family of PA did not have prior (before Maud first met Bill in Philadelphia, while both were at school) contact with the Herbert's of Manalapan and Freehold, NJ (namely William Dey Herbert, I., member and Elder [1860] of Old Tennent Presby.Church, d. 17 Dec 1881 and buried in Old Tennent Cem.