Helen (Smythe) Jaffray (1850-1932)

Mrs "Nellie" Helen (Smythe) Jaffray

She was born in New York where she was well-known in society as one of the "three handsome Smythe girls". In 1871, she married William Phillips Jaffray, uncle of Florence Jaffray Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to Norway. They were the parents of three children and she was listed with her eldest daughter as one of "The Four Hundred". Later, she lived at 27 Rue du Longchamp in Paris, where she died.

Parents

Henry Augustus Smythe

President of the Central National Bank & Collector of Customs at New York

1817-1884

Mary Fitch (Franklin) Smythe

Mrs Mary Fitch (Franklin) Smythe

1816-1894

Spouse

William Phillips Jaffray

Wholesale Dry Goods Merchant, of E.S. & J.R. Jaffray & Co., New York & London

1845-1887

Children

Mary (Jaffray) Jaffray

Mrs Mary Franklin (Jaffray) Jaffray

1872-1962

Arthur Woodriff Jaffray

of Irvington-on-Hudson, New York

1876-1919

Helen Frances (Jaffray) Rooker

Mrs Helen Frances (Jaffray) Abbott, Rooker, of Snape House, Wadhurst, E. Sussex

1885-1970