SMITH FAMILY CEMETERY
                        Est.  1861

Turn right onto Ebenezer Rd. at Georgiana VFW  and right again
onto Clipper Rd.  Go approx one fourth mile. Cemetery on left.

There are earlier listings of this cemetery on various records
that probably have more names and dates than are now available
due to erosion.


Row 1


In memory of
Bart Williams
Mar. 14, 1817
Feb. 29, 1892
Age 74 yrs. ll mos. and 17 days

In memory of:
Elizabeth A. Williams
Wife of D.B. Williams
Dec. 29, 1826
July 1, 1879
"a faithful virtuous mother
and devoted wife"
long beautiful verse on slab
that I omitted getting.

Eliza L. Sheppherd
Apr. 4, 1833
Nov. 1, 19?1

Moss covered bricks
cover unmarked grave.


Row 2


all graves on this row
unmarked except for
one footpost with: T.S.


Row 3


3 definite gravesites
not marked at all

W.H. Gavin
Apr. 28, 1853
June 9, 1942

Our Mother
Mary E. Gavin
June 6, 1859
Aug. 26, 1924
Age 65 yrs.

? H. Gavin
Dec. 25, 1892
Nov. 21, 1923

In Memory of:
Robert Shofner?
Feb. 25, 1874
Sept. 24, 1874

Unmarked stone
lettering not visible

In memory of:
H.P. Smith
Sept. 28, 1878
Mar. 20. 1879
Rest in Peace

IN Memory of M.M. Smith
Apr. 2, 187?
April 7, 1884

In  Memory of ?C. Smith
Mar. 4, 1844
Oct. 13, 1874
"God called thee home
He thought it best"

"Joe"
Joseph Sanders Bass
May 18, 1869
Apr. 26, 1937

Della Stylene Bass
Mar. 12, 1876
July 16, 1929

Baby  Bass
no dates

"Sugar Cricket" Bass
1920  only date


Row 4


Clyde York
Oct. ? 1903
Mar. 2, 1920

Clevie York
Dec. 28, 1898
no death date

Betty Snellgrove York
1869  -  ?

George M. York
1869 -  ?

Unmarked

Leo S. Bass
1919--1933

2 earthmound graves
unmarked

Infant babies of:
T.M. and L.M. Black
headstones unreadable
except date  Sept. 2, 1918

4 graves inside fancy iron
fenced plot.
unmarked
Father:  William T. Smith
Died 1942

Mother: Sarah?  Smith
Dec. 30. 1879
no other date

unmarked

outside fence to east:
Sacred to the memory of:
Isabel wife of:
Henry Smith
May 18, 1804
Oct. 28, 1861
"Here lies the gentle mother's dust
Who taught us from our infant bloom
That if in our God we trust
There is life beyond this tomb."

Stone lying flat on ground
Carefully pieced together
Henry Smith
April 1792
? 29, 1873

Infant, unmarked

Infant, unmarked

BLACK  (with Masonic Emblem)   ( double headstone )
Travis M. Black
June 9, 1853
Oct. 22, 1924

Lizzie S. Black
Sept. 9, 1857
Aug. 23, 1923

Unmarked
Very thick broken slab

Buna N. Black
Mar. 19, 1890
July 26, 1944

Child's elaborate headstone
with lamb but no visible lettering


ROW 5


Lula R. Davis
Feb. 18, 1880
May 19, 1950

W.E. Reavese
Dec. 6, 1883
Nov. 29, `1932

James S. Gardener
May 10, 1843
Oct. 2, 1912

Mary E.
wife of J.E. Gardener
Jan 27, 1855
Nov. 4, 1892

W.? Gardener
Child of James and Mary
1872  only date

In memory of Joseph R. Watford
June 31, 1877
June 31, 1879

Unmarked


Row 6


John Cavin Lee
Feb. 1, 1850
Oct. 29, 1930

Emma Handcock Lee
Nov. 23, 1856
Nov. 9, 1937

Jackson Lee
Nov. 18, 1814
Dec. 27, 1895
Aged 80 yrs. 1 mo. 9 days

Footstone:
no marking

Lydia Lee
Dec. 25, 1853
May 24, 1896

Dan H. Lee
Aug. 29, 1888
Feb. 4, 1911

Lula Mae Hendrix Lee
May 9, 1916
Feb. 9. 1984

Bessie Mae Pinkerton Lee
Mar. 15, 1903
Apr. 26, 1929

Joseph B. Lee Sr.
Sept. 6, 1895
Jan 12, 1974
"Joseph B Lee
Alabama Pvt. U. S. Army
World War I

Nannie Lois Snead
Lee
?, 1892
Aug. 1, 1939

Unmarked

Mamie Roley Lee
Mar. 27, 1883
Feb. 24, 1911

Unmarked Child's grave

Chester E. Lee
Apr. 27, 1908
May 19., 1974



END OF SMITH FAMILY CEMETERY 2001 CENSUS....

Taken by Ruth Hester   - DECEMBER 2001
rhester@greenlynk.com.


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