Effie's Family Origins - a daguerrotype portrait of Effie Anderson's parents - Martha Adelia (nee Coulter) and (Maj.) Adolphus Anderson in Arkansas. The portrait has been dated to circa 1861, around the time of their wedding in Nashville, Arkansas, just before the outbreak of the Civil War. Maj. Anderson soon returned to his home state of South Carolina to join his 10 brothers in the state troops.

Miss Effie Iola Anderson - circa 1890, around the time of her 21st birthday in Arkansas and her marriage to her first husband, William Mark (Willie) Spencer. Their time together was brief - Willie died of tuberculosis just 3 months after their December 1890 wedding, leaving Effie a widow before her 22nd birthday.

Andrew Young (A.Y.) Smith circa 1890, age 21. Born in Scotland, emigrated to Missouri, recently arrived at the time of this photo for work as a stonecutter and later as railroad clerk (Cordelia Jct.) in the Suisun Valley, northeast of San Francisco. Portrait photo taken in nearby Napa, California. A.Y. would meet Effie Anderson Spencer (a young widow) in Deming, NM, 4 years later.

Effie Anderson Smith and Andrew Young Smith at the time of their 1895 wedding in Bisbee, Arizona Territory. Effie lived and painted in Arizona for the next 60 years.

(San Francisco Railroad Studio Car portrait by Orris Hunt.)

The Smith's of Pearce - Effie Anderson Smith with husband Andrew Young (A.Y.) Smith, son Lewis and baby daughter Janet Annadel. Sadly, baby Annadel - born in September 1906 - died before her 1st birthday in 1907.

Effie Anderson Smith (Mrs. A.Y.) at Home Ranch - with "My pet horse Magy" - circa 1903, Pearce, Arizona Territory (A.T.)

"Off to the Country !" - E.A. Smith with son Lewis and friends (Mrs. McKean and children) preparing for an outing.

The Home Ranch - Pearce, Arizona Territory - circa 1903.

"A busy day in Camp" - E.A. Smith (standing) with son Lewis, friend Mrs. McKean and her two small children. Near Turkey Creek, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona Territory - circa 1903.

A swim at Turkey Creek - E.A. Smith, Mrs. McKean, and Effie's son Lewis (about age 5 - circa 1903)

Effie's son Lewis on the porch - "Home again with little friends" as Effie inscribed this photo. Pearce, Arizona Territory (c 1903)

Andrew Young Smith, Manager and later President, Commonwealth Mine - Pearce, Arizona Territory

Effie's son Lewis "making Xmas money" - Commonwealth Mine Mountain in background (c 1903-05), Pearce, A.T.

The artist Effie Anderson Smith in the study of the Smith Home, Pearce, A.T. (c 1915-20). Eleven (11) paintings appear on the walls, mantel, and bookcase. By this time Effie had been painting landscapes for more than 20 years. The present location of these paintings is unknown. Many may have been destroyed when this house (Smith house no 2 in Pearce) caught fire and burned to the ground in September 1929. (Photo by Huntzinger of Tucson).

Close-up. The Artist at Home - Effie Anderson (Mrs. A.Y.) Smith - in the study of the Smith home (no. 2) in Pearce, circa 1915-20. Newspapers reported they moved into this new home in June 1914. The clock behind Effie is a Seth Thomas Chime Clock, model 2001, introduced in 1915. (close-up of photo by Huntzinger of Tucson).

Effie's son Lewis with his new saddle on porch of their home at Pearce, A.T. (c 1903)

Lewis Anderson Smith in the saddle.

E.A. Smith feeding turkeys (c 1903-05)

The Glorious Fourth - Lewis A. Smith (center) with friends (c 1903) - Pearce, Arizona Territory

Southern Pacific RR Engine 1741. The railroad came to Pearce in 1903. Standing near the engine are the Clifford children of Pearce - Tuffy and Tilly - who worked at the Common-Wealth Mine - and a women believed to be E.A. Smith - Circa 1903-05.

Effie Anderson Smith 'motoring' in her Rambler near her home in Pearce, A.T. (c 1907)

The Women of Pearce - Effie Anderson Smith at right (c 1907)

The Common-Wealth Mine and Mill, at Pearce, Arizona Territory, circa 1910. Effie's husband, Andrew Young (A.Y.) Smith rose from bookkeeper to become Mine Manager, and then President.

Andrew Young (A.Y.) Smith - President, Commonwealth Mine - Pearce, Arizona (c 1915)

A.Y. Smith and son Lewis at Henry Smith Ranch, Turkey Creek, Chiricahua Mountains (c 1910)

Lewis A. Smith around the time of his graduation from the San Francisco Presidio Military Academy in 1918.

Effie Anderson Smith in 1929 at age 60. That year she was profiled as "Mrs. A.Y. Smith, Arizona Artist" in the November issue of "Progressive Arizona and the Great Southwest". Photo by Albert Buehman.

The Mine Manager's House (Smith house no 3) in Pearce, AZ - home to A.Y. and E.A. Smith during the 1930s. The house is still standing today.

Effie (left) with friend Margaret Rae Tuttle (center) and A.Y. Smith (right) in the front yard of the Mine Manager's House in Pearce, which the Smiths built after their previous home (and many of Effie's paintings) burned to the ground on September 17th, 1929. Photo courtesy of the family of Mrs. Lynn J. Tuttle.

Margaret Rae Tuttle with A.Y. Smith and the artist Effie Anderson Smith, at the front gate of Smith House no 3 in Pearce, circa 1930. Photo courtesy of the family of Mrs. Lynn J. Tuttle.

Dear Friends - Margaret Rae Tuttle and Effie Anderson Smith, circa 1930 at the Smith home in Pearce, Arizona. Margaret Rae's husband, Dr. Lynn J.Tuttle was a prominent Douglas, AZ physician. Photo courtesy of the family of Mrs. Lynn J. Tuttle.

Effie Anderson Smith with a group of her art students - probably in Douglas AZ (c 1940-45).

Southwest Impressionist painter Effie Anderson Smith, around the time of her 80th birthday (c 1948-50).

Effie Anderson Smith in Douglas AZ (circa 1950), standing in front of the Gadsden Hotel where she had resided, painted, and displayed her works during the late 1930s and throughout the 1940s.