Laura Sophia Smith Hughes
(1795–1832)
BIRTH
1795
PLACE
NAME
Laura Sophia Smith
DEATH
August 7, 1832
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Samuel Smith
(1752-1839)
MOTHER
Margaret Spear Smith
(1758-1842)
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RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Laura Sophia Smith Hughes was born in 1795, a daughter of Baltimore’s Samuel Smith and Margaret Spear. She married diplomat Christopher Hughes in 1811 and spent part of her life in Europe. Her surviving letters cover family affairs in London, France and Stockholm, including the death of her young son George Edward in 1823. The Clements Library’s correspondence index identifies her death at Aakershof near Stockholm on 7 August 1832, confirming her identity.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Laura Sophia Smith Hughes’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Laura Sophia Smith Hughes is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Laura Sophia Smith Hughes died on Aug 7, 1832. Laura Sophia Smith Hughes was born in 1795, a daughter of Baltimore’s Samuel Smith and Margaret Spear. She married diplomat Christopher Hughes in 1811 and spent part of her life in Europe. Her surviving letters cover family affairs in London, France and Stockholm, including the death of her young son George Edward in 1823. The Clements Library’s correspondence index identifies her death at Aakershof near Stockholm on 7 August 1832, confirming her identity. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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