Elisabeth (Rehmann) Smith was born on Monday, October 28, 1867 in New Jersey. She was the daughter of Wilhlem and Anna Marie (Rohm) Rehmann.

In the 1870 census, she was living with her family in Buena Vista Township, Atlantic County, NJ. By the 1880 report, "Lizzie" and family were living with her mother and step-father, George Fox at 533 Charter Street in Philadelphia.

Around 1888, she married Horace W. Smith who was born in January of 1865.

They had two children:

  1. Florence (Smith) Murray (1889- )

  2. Ethel May Smith (1892- )

The 1900 and 1910  census reports have the Smith family living at 612 Wishart Street in Philadelphia. Horace was listed as a "bermer" in the clothing manufacturing industry.