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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    REV. STEPHEN U. SMITH, Eutaw, is a son of Stephen and Sally A. (Rhodes)
Smith, of North Carolina.

    On his mother's side he is related to William R. King, for several terms
United States Senator from Alabama, and also Vice-President of the United States
during the administration of Franklin Pierce. His maternal grandfather, James
Rhodes, was for a great while member of the North Carolina Legislature, and a
member of State Senate at the time of his death. His maternal great-grandfather,
Andrew Bass, was a prominent man in Dobbs County, N. C., in the Revolutionary
War, and was a member of the convention which framed the first constitution for
the State.

    Our subject was born January 2, 1817, in Wayne County. N. C. His First
educational training was obtained at his home, and after further preparation
elsewhere, he entered the Law department of Transylvania University, at
Lexington, Ky., from which he graduated in February, 1841. Some time afterward
he came to Alabama, and was made a deacon of the Episcopal Church, by Bishop
Cobb, at Montgomery, February 16, 1853. Prior to this time, he had practiced
law. He was ordained to the priesthood of his church in May, 1854. Since that
time, he has devoted his life to its service in West Alabama. At one period in
his early ministerial career he did missionary work. He occupied the parish at
Livingston, Ala., at several different times, and has been in charge of the
parish at Eutaw, for thirty years.

    Rev. Mr. Smith is a Royal Arch Mason.


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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.
COTTON BELT.


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