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[[File:Murray Forbes Smith House.jpg|thumb|left|Her birthplace, the Murray Forbes Smith House at 201 [[Government Street (Mobile, Alabama)|Government Street]] in Mobile, Alabama.]]
Alva Erskine Smith was born on January 17, 1853, at 201 Government Street in [[Mobile, Alabama]], to Murray Forbes Smith, a {{what|text=[[commission merchant]],|reason=What is a "commission merchant"? The term is not explained at the linked article.}} and Phoebe Ann Desha.
Alva was one of six children. Two of her sisters, Alice and Eleanor, both died as children before she was born. Her brother, Murray Forbes Smith, Jr. died in 1857 and was buried in [[Magnolia Cemetery (Mobile, Alabama)|Magnolia Cemetery]] in Mobile. Two other sisters, Armide Vogel Smith and Mary Virginia "Jennie" Smith, were her only siblings to survive into adulthood. Jennie first married [[Fernando Yznaga]], the brother of Alva's childhood best friend, [[Consuelo Yznaga]], Duchess of Manchester. Following a divorce from Fernando in 1886, Jennie remarried, to William George Tiffany.<ref>{{cite news |title=Society at Home and Abroad |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/10/28/101804423.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 28, 1906 |access-date=February 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Married Very Quietly |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1888/07/22/106329561.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 22, 1888 |access-date=February 17, 2012}}</ref>
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