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- Louise, Anna, and Josie Smith on Glen Avenue, Pasadena
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- The Smiths lived at 1256 Glen Avenue, near Pepper Street. Louise Virginia Smith (1921-2007) was born in Pasadena to Joel (1893) and Georgianna (1896) Smith who came in 1910s from the Carolinas. Her birth certificate lists Dr. Whittaker as her attending physician, the first African American physician in Pasadena. Louise's sisters were Anna Bert (1916), Josie Mae (1920), and Ruth Juanita (born 1923 in Philadelphia). Her mother, Georgianna Reynolds Smith, was the descendant of Judi Reynolds (1804-1924) who died in Wilkinsberg, Pennsylvania at 120 years old. Judi was born to slave parents on the Dean plantation in Greenwood, South Carolina. She was a house servant to the Dean plantation after emancipation. Judi's first husband, Hemp Reynolds, died before the Civil War and her second husband was Elias Dean. They had four children. It is said that Judi's ancestors came as slaves from Nigeria to the Reynolds plantation.
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Louise, Anna, and Josie Smith on Glen Avenue, Pasadena
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