Obituary of Samuel Perry Smith, Lowndes, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lowndes/obits/spsmith.txt =============================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed and copyrighted by: Carolyn Golowka ================================================================================= September 1999 Samuel Perry NeSmith was born about 1822 (1850 US Census, Lowndes Co., AL). He married Julia A. Pruitt on Mar. 25, 1847, Lowndes County Marriage Book 1, page 504. He was killed in the Civil War at Seven Pines. From the book, "Lowndes Court House," by Mildred Brewer Russell, a quote from his obituary in the Montgomery Advertiser, July, 1862: "Major S. P. NeSmith, the law partner of Colonel David Baine, entered the volunteer service at the very opening of the conflict; and although qualified by the force of his intellect and a year's experience in the Mexican War to adorn any office in the regiment, yet he refused to accept any, so supreme was his disgust for office seeking. He gloried in the privilege of being a private, and never was there a better soldier. No duty or peril came unacceptably; and no hardship or privation could disturb his cheerful and genial good nature. On the reorganization of his regiment, the noble 6th, his companions in arms, without solicitation on his part, as we are informed, elected him their major. He fell gallantly leading his regiment at the enemy's strongworks in Chickahominy swamp, on the memorable 31st of May last. Thus fell as spotless and unselfish a patriot as ever adorned life. He was about forty years old." Reprinted with permission from the Lowndes County Historical Society which holds the copywrite, all rights reserved.