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Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Section Vesperland Lot 1292 Space 1
Filename P1470331.JPG
Image © 2022 by Christopher Mills

People Names and Dates


Full Name	Lewis James Smith
AKA Full Name
People ID	543429
Title
First Name	Lewis
AKA First Name
Nickname
Middle Name	James
AKA Middle
Patronymic/Matronymic
Priorsurnames
Surname	Smith
AKA Surname
Father's Surname	Smith
Mother's Surname	Cook
Suffix
Gender	Male
Full Birth Date If Known	1902-09-12
Birth Year	1902
Birth Month	9
Birth Day	12
Full Death Date If Known	1964-09-16
Death Year	1964
Death Month	9
Death Day	16

Events, Dates and Places

Event	Date	Geo Top Level	Geo 2nd Level	Geo 3rd Level	Geo 4th Level	Geo 5th Level	Notes
Birth	1902/09/12	USA	Georgia
Death	1964/09/16	USA	California	Los Angeles

Relationships

Relationship	Related To	Relative's People ID	Relative's Birth Year	Relative's Death Year	Other Date (typically Marriage Date)
Son of	Edward Livingston Smith	541327	1875	1940
Son of	Margaret Elizabeth Cook Smith	543728	1878	1945

Military Service

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Rank If Known Or Highest Or Final Rank	Branch of Service	Beginning Date if Known	End Date if Known

Military Actions Served During

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Interment, Inurnment or Memorialization Information


Cemetery	Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Address	1712 S. Glendale Avenue
City/Town	Glendale
County/District	Los Angeles
State/Province	California
Postal/Zip Code	91205
Country/Principality	USA
Section	Vesperland
Map	1
Lot	1292
Space	1

Organization
Property Type	Ground
Has Marker	Yes
No Marker
Is Cenotaph
GPS/LatLong Coordinates
End of Interment Record	If there are additional interments or cenotaphs for this person they will appear below

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Other Information

Biographical or other information about the person

https://mills-sfv.com/Genealogy/GLS/People/Text/543429.txt

Most of this text is from the bio section I wrote for the find a grave memorial, although it has been updated. The last paragraph I added here only, I have learned from experience not to say too much on find a grave itself, lest I find weird things happening to my account or, heaven forbid, be banned from the site entirely.

This is NOT the actor J. Lewis Smith (FInd A Grave memorial 12359) who died four or five days before, on 11 or 12 Sep 1964, this is a completely different person.

Memorial 12359 is for J. Lewis Smith, they have him listed born 5/24/1906 died 9/12/1964. He is listed in the California Death Index as J L Smith died 9/11/64 and his SSN is listed as 547106452. The Find A Grave memorial has the plot listed as Vesperland 1291 1 (since changed to 1292 1 since I originally wrote this) which is wrong, a completely different person is buried there.

Forest Lawn shows Lewis James Smith died 9/16/1964 and is buried in Vesperland 1292 1. He matches with the California Death Index, SSN 562098832 born 9/12/1902 (in Georgia, not Ohio, where the actor was from). Lewis James Smith (born in Georgia) is documented on THIS record.

I can find no trace of the actor J. Lewis Smith at Forest Lawn, he may not be listed on the website. I have been unable to locate him in this cemetery or elsewhere on Find A Grave. But the person they have posted the marker photo for is definitely NOT the actor, it is of the person whose record this is and whose find a grave memorial number is 85520590.

I have purposefully not brought this up with the find a grave administration because, having dealt with them before, they are just as likely to merge this man's memorial into the memorial for the actor and somehow think they fixed the problem, which I am not sure they are actually capable of doing.

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Small notes (field in database 50 characters max)
Family Search ID	GSL6-83B
Find A Grave 1	85520590
Famous per Find A Grave
Famous per Consensus
Find A Grave 2
Find A Grave 3
BillionGraves Record ID
Other websites
Record Entry Date	2012-01-23 01:00:00
Record Last Edit Date	2022-11-06 06:25:29

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