Clay County AlArchives News.....Smith, Mr. & Mrs. James Lihue 64th Anniversary January 30, 1957
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Anniston Star January 30, 1957
Mr. and Mrs. J. Lihu Smith of Ashland quietly celebrated their 64th wedding 
anniversary here last week. The elderly couple was married Jan. 21, 1893 by John 
Miller. Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith are natives of this area and have lived in their 
present home for the past 38 years.
They have lived within, a four-mile radius of Ashland their entire life and were 
neighbors before their marriage. 
Mr. Smith is 84 and Mrs. Smith is 80. Mrs. Smith is able to do most of the 
housework and cooking though their children visit them daily to Mr. Smith is 
confined to his bed most of the time but is able to sit in a rocking chair near 
his bed for short periods of time. 
Mr. Smith registered to vote soon after his 21st birthday 63 years ago and has 
voted in each election since that time. Mr. Smith's son assisted his father to 
the polls to vote for the President of the United States in the last election. 
He has not missed the privilege of voting for a president of the United States, 
or any other election held in Clay County during the past 63 years. Neither has 
Mrs. Smith missed an opportunity to vote since women were allowed that 
privilege, in 1920. 
Mr. and Mrs. Smith's oldest son Harvel, died during World War of pneumonia while 
serving in the Army. They have seven other children. They are Mrs. O. E. Wood, 
Mrs. E. D. Riley Ashland, Mrs. J. T. Deason, Columbus, Ga., Mrs. Dee Hanson, 
Sheffield, Mrs. Tom Parsons, Ashland, Mrs. J. A. Fain, Albany Ga., and one son 
Ledford Smith, postmaster in Ashland. They have 16 grandchildren and 15 great 
grandchildren.  
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have watched Ashland grow from three wooden store buildings 
to its present size. They can remember when Ashland had only a small amount of 
wooden dwellings as compared to its present hundreds of bricks and wooden 
dwelling houses. They are very pleased to set the construction of manufacturing 
plants come to Ashland and that progress of the town as well as for all of Clay 
County. 
Mrs. Smith is well physically and is able to help look after Mr. Smith who is in 
bed most of the time now. She was able to attend church with her son recently. 
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been active in church during lifetime. Mr. Smith has 
attended church regularly at Lystra Baptist Church and Mrs. Smith at the Church 
of Christ where she has been a member for many years. 
Mr. Smith built the first house they owned before their marriage where they 
lived on farm for many years Ashland. Mr. Smith was actively engaged in fanning 
until a few years ago. They continued to keep chickens and a cow until recent 
months.

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