[4] He lived at South Vale, now a Grade II listed building in Haltwhistle,[5] and was known as founder of local Sunday schools around 1830.
[7][8] His son Robert married in 1866 Mary Ann Wood, daughter of William Bolton Wood of Lower Broughton, his earlier wife Martha Cook of Peckham Rye having died in 1860;[9][10] he died in 1881, at Greystone Dale (or Greystonedale).
[12][13] The proceedings showed that he had taken over the business, burdened by family debt, in 1883, and had brought new money in from his aunt Miss Cook.
[15] He died in 1935, by which time his son Douglas was a partner in the successor business Smith & Walton at Haltwhistle.
[17][25][26] The funeral on 10 December was attended by five of her unmarried sisters, including Olive Smith, and three of her brothers, Frank, Norman and Harold.
[27] The Collected Poems of Ada Elizabeth Smith was published in 1950 (London, Mitre Press).
Her first poem in print was in The Christian Million, a newspaper founded by William Tarver, a Primitive Methodist.
[18][35] When living in Hexham, she began regular contributions, still as Elizabeth Smith, to the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle.