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Eliza Smith
Eliza Smith was born about 1824 in Cumberland, Rhode Island. She was the daughter of Hezekiah and Adah Salisbury Smith. On September 24, 1844 she married Joseph Cole, also of Cumberland, in Killingly, CT. They were married by Rev. Daniel Williams.
On September 6, 1845, she gave birth to a son, Charles William Cole. Sometime before July of 1847, Eliza died and was buried in her family's plot in North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island.
Charles went to live with Eliza's mother, Adah Smith and her sister Elizabeth. Joseph married Harriet Roach Lewis, a widow with three children in 1847. By 1855, Charles was living with his father and stepmother Harriet.
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