Crenshaw-Elmore County AlArchives Biographies.....Smith, George Holmes February 12, 1871 - 1946
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Sketches of Representatives. Crenshaw County: “GEORGE HOMES SMITH, of Luverne, 
representative in the Legislature, 1915, from Chrnshaw county, was born Feb. 
12, 1871, in Montgomery, Ala; son of James Monroe and Narcissa  (Douglas) 
Smith; grandson of George Wright and Mary (Campbell) Smith, and William and 
Mary Elizabeth (Small) Douglas, residents of Wetumpka, but natives of 
Edinburgh, Scotland. James M. Smith was a resident of Wetumpka; served in the 
Confederate States Army as a courier in the 3rd Ala. Inf. Regt.; and was a 
commission merchant. Representative Smith was educated in the public schools 
of Wetumpka; was licensed to practice pharmacy May 28, 1897, and is now 
engaged in the retail drug business at Luverne. He served as Mayor of Wetumpka 
two terms, 1898-1900.  He is now (1915) a member of the town council of 
Luverne. He is a Democrat, and served as Secretary of the Elmore County 
Executive Committee several years. He was reared a Presbyterian, but is now a 
member of the Methodist Church. He is a member of the Masons, is a Royal Arch 
Mason, a Red Man, a Knight of Pythias, and Woodman of the World. He married, 
May 15, 1895, at Wetumpka. Mary Eugenia, daughter of George Bernard and Sarah 
(Webb) Judkins, formerly of Macon county, but later residents of Wetumpka. Mr. 
Smith is the twin brother of Lamar Cantelou Smith who represented Elmore 
county in the Legislature of 1907. The brothers married sisters.” (1) 
(1) Alabama Official and Statistical Register – 1915, complied by Thomas M. 
Owen, LL. D., Director (Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., 1915), p. 109.


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