Naomi Smith

1901 - 1994  (93 years)

• Name	Naomi Smith
  Born	28 Jan 1901	Island Cove, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland
  Gender	Female
  Died	3 Oct 1994	Clarenville, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada
  Buried	Queen's Cove, United Church Cemetery
  Person ID	I58	Robert and Emily Smith
  Last Modified	12 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	Lorenzo Smith,   b. Feb 1863, Bishop's Cove, Conception Bay, Newfoundland ,   d. 14 Jun 1936, Island Cove, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland  (Age ~ 73 years)
  Mother	Emma Ann Dodge,   b. 5 Nov 1870, Heart's Ease, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland ,   d. 18 Oct 1957, Queen's Cove, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada  (Age 86 years)
  Married	26 Dec 1892	Anglican Church, Hodge's Cove   [1]
  	At the time of their wedding, Lorenzo was listed as a fisherman.
  Family ID	F12	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edward Gregory,   b. 12 Jul 1900, Queen's Cove, Trinity Bay ,   d. 9 Sep 1979, Queen's Cove  (Age 79 years)
  Married	4 Dec 1933	Wesley United Church, St. John's
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2015
  Family ID	F29	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Naomi (Smith) Gosse

  
  

• Notes

  Naomi is listed as a passenger on the SS Silvia on 27 March 1930 sailing from St. John's going to Brooklyn, NY. She was listed as a student nurse. According to Shelley Smith on the Women's Military Road Walking Tour: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage (www.heritage.nf.ca/society/womenswalk/wtour1_10.html) website... Naomi (Aunt Emmie) Gregory worked for a time on Rennie's Mill Road. She went into service in 1916, and describes her life as that of "a slave to the people you worked for.... I had to clean shoes, polish silverware, and wash the floors in the basement ... scrub [the wooden kitchen table] ... until it was as clean as a hound's tooth." Naomi got one night off a week, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. If she returned late to the house, the door would be locked and "you wouldn't get in at all." Most young women married and turned to the care of their own homes or, like Naomi, sought work as domestics in the Boston States. Naomi worked there from 1920 until 1933, when she returned to St. John's to work.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5] Random Box 2.