Born : 27th November, 1897 - Philadelphia, PA., USA - ( Elsie Welsh Smith )
Died : 8th October, 1969 - Paris, France
Married : 1) Edgar Evertson Saltus ( 1855 - 1921 ) m. 8th October 1895 - English Embassy Church, Paris, France
2) James Theus
Munds ( 1882, Wilmington, NC - 1938 NY. ) m. 26th October 1917- St.Thomas Church, New York,
NY. div. 1931 - Paris, France
3) Henry de Gaspé Domville m. 1932 div.
Reno,Nevada - March 25, 1937
4) Gosta Tollius
Children : Saltus - Elsie Welsh
*** Munds - James Theus Munds Jr. born 1920 & Josephine Chandler Munds -
Josephine Munds married Sven Gustav Malmberg in 1945
Domville - James Domville
Tollius - Ingrid
* * * Nils ( Theus ) Malmberg was one of 3 children from this ( Munds ) marriage.
Theus married Taria Rachael Frey and they lived in Myrtle Beach, SC.
Both are deceased.
Elsie's Father : Dr. Edward A. Smith
Elsie's Grandfather : Samuel Welsh
Elsie Munds met Meher Baba on Friday 20th November 1931 on his first visit to New York, north of the city at Croton-on-Hudson and later again in Paris, France.
She also met Baba at the Meher Center in Myrtle Beach, SC. in the 1950s.
Her daughter Josephine and husband Sven both visited the Center at other times.
Elsie was the maid of honour for Elizabeth ( Chapin ) Patterson at her marriage to Kenneth Patterson on the 9th November 1929.
![This is how Meher Baba appeared to Elsie in New York on his first trip to the US in 1931. Photo taken by Arnold Genthe.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=492x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i958fba397468422b/version/1587060222/image.jpg)
Elsie's 1st husband : Edgar E. Sultus
BOOKS WRITTEN BY EDGAR E. SALTUS
![Feb.25th, 1917 ( p.50 ) - New York Tribune ( NY. )](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=490x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i315897d3039bd0c4/version/1429855392/image.jpg)
![](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i6a780abc1817b4ca/version/1489710196/image.jpg)
Elsie's 2nd husband : James Theus Munds
J. THEUS MUNDS HOUSE - 121 East 64th Street, New York, NY.
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-j-theus-mund-house-no-121-east-64th.html
James Theus & Elsie Munds had 2 children - James Jr and Josephine.
![Josephine & Sven Gustav Malmberg in their residence at the Swedish Embassy in New York. Sven was the Swedish Ambassador to the USA. The painting behind the couple is of Josephine & her brother James.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=490x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/ibd4d8cb0f87993fa/version/1489886086/image.jpg)
Sven & Josephine Malmberg's son Nil "Theus "
Born : 24th August 1951 - Sweden Died : 25th January 2023 - Myrtle Beach, S.C., USA
![Meher Center, Myrtle Beach, SC. Theus with his friens ( L-R ) Bob Underwood, Art Nordeen & Glenn Magrini.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i978faf935654d106/version/1675749547/image.jpg)