Dawson County GaArchives Photo person.....Thomas Harrison and Harriet Elizabeth Taylor Smith abt 1880
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My great great grandparents Thomas Harrison Smith and Harriet Elizabeth Taylor 
married in April of 1849 in Lumpkin Co Ga.at the home of her parents William 
Taylor and Anna Childers Taylor.
Thomas Harrison Smith, according to his Civil War records was born in SC in 
1826. He arrived in Cherokee /Lumpkin Co Ga. in 1846. He enlisted as a private 
in August of 1863 at Shiloa Ga. in Company D Cherokee Legion State Guards.He 
served in the nitre works until he was transferred to Company B Findley's 
Regiment/ Barretts Battn. in October of 1864. He surrendered at Atlanta in May 
12, 1865.He was a farmer, large landowner, and miner. His love of mining took 
him all over the U.S. while his family remained on the farm in Yellow Creek 
Lumpkin/Dawson Co, Ga. 
Harriet Taylor, according to a Cherokee application of a first cousin and many 
filed affidavits, was the granddaughter of Abraham Childers (b 1760's N.C.) 
full Cherokee and wife Nancy Wilkerson (b 1776 SC) half Cherokee. Abraham and 
his brothers Gid and Lem and their sons: Levi and Henry all migrated to Bradley 
and MCMinn Co Tn from Greenville Co SC before 1820. Abraham's brothers and 
their sons were sent on the Trail of Tears. Abraham had already died, so Nancy 
Childers gathered up her unmarried children and escaped into Lumpkin Co Ga. She 
was there on the census for 1834. She died at the home of her daughter Nancy 
Childers Hubbard in 1862.
Harriet's parents were from Spartanburg to Greenville Co SC to Lumpkin Co Ga 
before 1830.They remained in Lumpkin/Dawson Co all their lives and are buried 
at Liberty Baptist Church in Dawson Co.
Harriet's grandparents: James and Rebecca Childers Taylor were large landowners 
in Greenville Co SC, as was her great grandfather William Taylor Sr.


Additional Comments:
Thomas Harrison and Harriet elizabeth Taylor Smith are buried at Ophir Baptist 
Church Cumming, Ga where they were members for many years.

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