Douglas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Smith, William B. February 25, 1880
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Candace (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 November 26, 2006, 7:27 pm

"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, MARCH 12, 1880

GEORGIA News

From the Douglasville Star: There died in this county on the 25th inst., 
last, quite a notorious character. We refer to W.B. Smith, more generally 
known as Doctor Smith. He lived to the old age of seventy-three. In his 
youth, he spent a large portion of his time among the Creek Indians and was 
quite intimate with their great medicine men. From these, like Edwin 
Eastman, he claimed to have learned the secret ingredients of many valuable 
remedies, and especially one for the cure of cancers. Although he was a very 
illiterate man, many people had implicit faith in his powers as a physician 
and as a conjurer, in the capacity of both of which he frequently practiced. 
Many people from all portions of Georgia and east Alabama have come to this 
county to be treated by him. Of his cures we know nothing. We know he had 
widespread reputation. He had been gradually failing for the last year and 
finally died from the effects of old age. During his last illness, he would 
take no medicine except of his own manufacture.


Additional Comments:
1880 - U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedule
Name: Wm B Smith 
Gender: Male  
Race: White  
Marital Status: Married  
Place of Birth: Georgia  
Estimated birth year: abt 1810  
Age: 70  
Month of Death: Feb 
Cause of Death: Inflammation of the Kidney  
Place of Death: Militia District 1271, Douglas, Georgia

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