Fannin-Gilmer-Calhoun County GaArchives Obituaries.....Smith, Henry Robert  January 17, 1936
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Fannin Co. Newspaper of January 1936
Robert Henry Smith 
Dies at Calhoun Georgia
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Mr. Robert Henry Smith of 602 Redbud Road, Calhoun, Ga. died at his home of 
doublr pneumonia on Friday, January 17th and was brought to Morganton Saturday 
for burial, it being his native home.
Mr. Smith is well known here, and is the son of the late J.(Jacob) F. Smith, a 
pioneer of Fannin County, having lived here for years before the war between 
the states, and was a Confederate soldier serving under Gen. Robert E. Lee, 
and many other noted Southern Generals and came back here to live the 
remainder of his life. (this speaks of Jacob F. Smith)
Mr. Henry Smith was born in Morganton January 19, 1868 and was reared here. In 
1887 he married Nettie (Phinetta) Bailey and to this union were born fourteen 
children, ten girls and one boy of whom are living.They lived here for 31 
years. Mrs Nettie Bailey Smith died May 28, 1923 and on January 11, 1927 he 
was married to Miss Martha Chastain of Cartecay, Ga. Four children were born 
to them, two of whom are now living.
Those surviving now are: Mrs. S. L. (Samuel Lester)Evans, Adairsville, Ga.; 
Mrs Elisha Wright; Mrs. J. R. (James Richard)Panter; Mrs. (Walter)Rufus Panter;
Mrs. Othella Bolding (Thomas Clark Boling); and Miss Angie Smith of 
Copperhill, Tenn., and Mrs G. B.(Guy Vivian)Pickard, Cave, Ga., Mrs. Maud
(Uldric Paul) Pickard, Mrs. Eunice Smallwood and L. B.(Lorne Bunyan John) 
Smith of Perry, Ga. and Mrs. Pauline (Grover W.) Hale of Calhoun, Ga., also 
his widow and Robert Lee and Geraldine of Calhoun, Ga. Three brothersa and one 
sister, Messrs A. D. (Andrew Daniel) Smith and E. B.(E. Bartow)Smith  of 
Morganton and Arthur Smith whose address is unknown and Martha Bennett, 
Crummies, Ky. Thirty grandchildren and eighteen great-grand children.
The pall bearers were nephews Walter, Wayne, Wendel Panter, Clinton and 
Raymond Smith and Poley Evans.
Funeral services were held in the Morganton Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at 
one P.M., by Rev. J.L. Pinson, Pastor of Union Grove Church near Calhoun, Ga., 
and assisted by Rev. John E. Cook of Hemp. E.L. Jackson &son of Calhoun, 
Funeral Directors were in charge.

Additional Comments:
Robert Henry Smith who was the 
son of Jacob F. Smith, a pioneer of Fannin Co., Georgia. He married Mary 
Caroline Neal.  
Jacob F. Smith was the son of George W. Smith born in 1815 North Carolina. He 
married Mary Unknown abt. 1844-1845 in Gilmer Co. or Fannin Co., Georgia. 

George and Mary had the following known children:
Jacob F. b. Oct. 1845
David W. b. 1850
Lewis C. b. May 1852
John A. b. 1855
William H.  b. May 1858

These all all thought to be born in Fannin or Gilmer Co., Georgia.


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