Butts County GaArchives News.....Remarkable Old Negro September 30, 1898
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Jackson Argus – Butts County September 30, 1898
Arch Smith, col., died on the 22nd day of September 1898.  He belonged to 
Samuel F. Smith in ante-bellum days and was 79 years of age at his death.  He 
has been blind for several years.  The smith family has looked after his 
comfort in his last days, and when he died they gave him a decent burial.

One remarkable feature about this old darkey’s history is that he never voted 
anything but a democratic ticket.  He was the supporter of Seymour and blare 
and all the way down to the independent movement in butts County.  He was the 
supporter of C. S. Maddox when Dr. May defeated him for the legislature, but 
when Arch attempted to vote the Populist ticket he was challenged as a tax 
defaulter and was not allowed to vote.  And at the same time he had property 
sufficient to have covered the taxes had the officials done their duty.  So he 
lived out his three score years and then and never voted anything but a 
Democratic ticket.

Jackson Argus – Butts County
Week of September 30, 1898


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