Butts-Monroe County GaArchives Obituaries.....Smith, A. C. April 1907 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 August 3, 2011, 9:00 am The Jacksonian A. C. Smith Dies at His Home Near Forsyth The many friends of Hons. A. H., E. L., and R. L. Smith, our esteemed and worthy fellow townsmen will be pained to learn of the death on last Saturday of their honored father, Mr. A. c. Smith of near Forsyth, Ga. Mr. Smith, the deceased had been in feeble health for two months past, but was fast recovering his strength and usual health. His family had thought him entirely out of danger, and acting on this assumption, Mr. A. H. Smith was in New York city at the time of his death, was not permitted, by reason of inability to reach home in time to be present at the funeral services. The deceased had lived to the ripe old age of seventy seven years. He was born in Jasper county March 5th 1830. In the year 1852 he married to Miss Sarah Jane Phinazee who is left to mourn th departure of her protector in young womanhood, middle and old age. Mr. Smith was of the old school of southern gentleman hood. He followed agricultural pursuits of life and was a success as such, and won the confidence and love of all those who came in touch with him. None were his enemy and all who knew him loved him. When we are reminded of the enviable characters and the worth of their lives, for honesty and integrity of his scions, our fellow citizens, Asa, Lee and Rufus Smith, we catch an idea of the noble and lovable character o the deceased. He was not very well known in Jackson, as he rarely ever came here. His death was quite unexpected. He had left the house to walk about the premises and dropped dead from heart failure. Mr. smith had reared a large family of children, all of who are forging to the front in their respective calling. His children living are Asa H., Rufus and Lee of Jackson Ga., Jas. M., Willis F. and Olin of Forsyth Ga., Mrs. E. P. Hunt and Mrs. W. B. Griffin of Griffin Ga., and Col E. M. Smith of McDonough Ga. Two children are dead to wit: Fannie having died March 7, 1879 at the age of twenty five and Harris died at the age of thirty three in April 1890. The remains were interred near the home of the deceased at the family burying ground on Sunday afternoon amid a large concourse of sorrowing friends and relatives. The Jacksonian Week of April 26, 1907 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/obits/s/smith13430ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb