Sharon Louise Smith - Hugh's Site

April 20, 1943 – December 31, 2013

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In the spring of 1975, my boss Chuck Graves and I flew to Chicago to visit the Rock Island Railroad. We took the head of Marketing – Newt Swain – and his boss out to Jovan’s – a swanky restaurant – for dinner. I know Newt when he was at the US Railway Association and we did work for them. Over dinner, he told m cousin Sharon Smith was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, probably eating beans, and I should take her out for a decent dinner.

The next weekend I was invited to a party at Neil Buchanan’s house about 30 miles west of Philadelphia. I called her that morning and she said yes, she’d like to go, and yes, she had a car (I didn’t) and would drive. We had a good time – it got late so we stayed overnight. Driving back the next day, I asked where she grew up. She said a little town in New Jersey I would not know. It took about five asks to get her to say Hopewell. I told her I had not lived there for a year or two,

We were an immediate pair. A few weeks later we drove to Hopewell to meet her family. Her mother said she was going to the home of Sal Asaro, a local artist. to see a viewing of his work.. I know Sal, so Sharon and I went with her mother. There I introduced Sharon to Sal and his wife, and to Carol Consalus, who was helping her son with the food and to Jay Coleman’s sister. Sharon did not know a soul there, in her own hometown.

Sharon grew up in the house at 1 Columbia Avenue. At this time, her father had died a few years earlier. Sharon had had an older brighter who died as a young teen. Her grandmother and her father’s sister Geraldine Smith lived in the house. Her mother’s sister Pat and husband John Cushman lived in the Hopewell museum a short distance away and spent most of their time in the house Another sister – Doris Heidingsfied – lived in New York City. when she retired, she came to live in the house. She later developed Alzheimer’s disease, and subsequently died.

In 1979 I moved to Massachusetts. I told Sharon she was welcome to come, but she decided to stay with her work at the University. She had obtained a grant from Alpo to study dog’s food preferences in home and kennels (no difference) and later with Purina to study human-pet relations in the home.

I had dragged my first wife Penny all over (New Jersey, Alaska, Colorado, back to New Jersey) and she finally said enough is enough and took the kids and returned to Colorado. I was not going to insist that Sharon move but told her she was welcome to join me any time. Finally she decided academia was not for her, and she came to Marblehead in 1982 to live with me and look for a job. She did not want to get married – said marriage had too much “baggage”.

In 1973, I was told by a financial adviser that here was a big tax advantage to being married. She realized that we had been together for 17 years, and lived together for 11, so maybe it was ok. We got married in her mother’s house in Hopewell on April 20, 1973. About 10 days after her mother died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage.

By then, all members of the family had died except Pat and John, who were now living in the house. Sharon inherited the house, and let Pat and John live there as long as they wanted. Pat died many years later, and John in 2017.

Doris had owned a house on Long Beach Island on the New Jersey shore. When she died it went to Sharon’s mother, who in turn passed it to Pat and John. John left it to second cousin Mason Smith – Tomec’s oldest, who had be very helpful to John in his last years.

Sharon’s Family tree

Grandparents	Parents	Cousins	2nd Cousins
? Smith ? Smith	? Smith ? Smith	Tomec Smith Jean Smith	Mason Smith
			Win
			Schuyler Smith
	Geraldine Smith
	Ned Smith Louise (Swain) Smith	Sharon Smith
Bertha Swain ?	Par Cushman John Cushman
	Doris (Swain) Heidingsfeld
	? Swain	Newt Swain Juanita Swain	Nancy Swain
			Tom Swain
			Mary Swain
		Newt Swain Jane ZImmer	Elizabeth Swain
			Victoria Swain
		Newt Swain ?
		Nancy Swain Wilfred Gustave

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