Cynthiabelle Gordon Smith was born Cynthiabelle Black in Americus, Georgia. Her father was Alfred Black and her brother was Junior G. Black. She married the dentist, Dr. Isadore C. Mitchell (April 30, 1925). Shortly after, he completed dental school at Howard University and then moved to Los Angeles. In 1934, she moved to Washington, D.C. seeking work, and divorced Mitchell in 1936. In 1937 she was working for the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington, D. C. She married the physician Dr. Wilbur Gordon (possibly in 1942) and was widowed. She married Dr. R. Stillman Smith in 1947. Dr. Wilbur Clarence Gordon was a physician. He was born in Ohio and practiced medicine in Los Angeles. Dr. Wilbur Clarence Gordon and Cynthia Mitchell Gordon stand in front of a window in the home of Drs. Vada and John Somerville on their wedding day. This is probably at the house at 2401 Harvard Blvd. where the Somervilles lived from 1944 to 1950/51.
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African American couples African American physicians Weddings Smith, Cynthiabelle Gordon, 1894 or 95-1978 Gordon, Wilbur Clarence, 1879-1945
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