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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    JOHN F. SMITH is a native of Cleburne County, where he was born December 15,
1839, and is a son of John and Sarah Ann (Lambert) Smith. The senior Mr. Smith
immigrated to Alabama from Georgia in 1833, and moved from Cleburne County to a
point on the Tallapoosa River, south of Edwardsville in 1851, and there died in
1853, at the age of forty-two years. He reared two sons: the subject of this
sketch and Samuel H.

    John F. Smith was reared on a farm; was educated at the common schools, and
at the age of eighteen accepted a clerkship in a store. In 1858 he went to
Wetumpka, and from there the year following to Talladega, where he engaged in
business in partnership with J. B. Gay. This partnership lasted but a short
time, when he sold out and resumed employment as a clerk.

    In 1861 Mr. Smith enlisted as a private in Company H, Tenth Alabama, and
remained in the service until the close of the war. Soon after the battle of
Dranesville he was promoted to third lieutenant, and when he left the service he
held the rank of first lieutenant, and had been for some time in command of his
company. From first to last he participated in many of the hardest-fought
battles of the war, and was wounded three times. Returning from the war, he
located at Selma, and from there, in 1866, came to Oxford, where he has since
made his home. In 1869 he moved upon his farm, at Boiling Springs, and from that
date has given most of his time to agriculture. He was married in 1869, to Miss
Augusta G. Caver, daughter of Thomas J. and Eliza (Davis) Caver, and has had
born to him four children: Kate E., Nannie Gay, Carrie Lee and Thomas F.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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