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Effie Smith Ely

Short Name: Effie Smith Ely
Full Name: Ely, Effie Smith

Ely, Effie Smith. Wife of a Methodist minister, Rev. Joseph B. Ely, with whom she shared the work of rural parishes in the vicinity of Morristown, Tennessee. Born in Hawkins County, Tenn.; educated at Sullins College, Bristol, Tenn., and in Peabody Normal College, Nashville.

--The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives


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