JONES COUNTY, GA - BIOS  Leonidas Smith

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., Page 450
Published by The Southern Historical Association in
1895


Leonidas Smith, planter, Blountsville, Jones Co., Ga.,
son of John T. and Elizabeth Frances (Key) Smith, was
born in Jones County, Dec. 17, 1840.  His father, John
T. Smith, was born in Weldon, N.C., where he lived
until he was nineteen years of age, when he and an
older brother, Lovid, early in the 30’s, came to Jones
County, Ga.  About two years after he came to Georgia,
March 12, 1835, he married Miss Key.  Of the children
born to him by her the following are living: Amanda,
Mrs. Jeremiah Miller, Jones County, Ga.; Leonidas, the
subject of this sketch; Robert, planter, Jones County,
and John H., Orange County, Fla.  The mother of these
having died Mr. Smith married for his second wife Miss
Carrie C. Clark, of Houston County, Ga., who survives
him.  The children born to him by this marriage, now
living, are these: Benjamin T., Jones County; Sarah F.,
wife of Col. Green, of Hancock County, Ga., and William
A., Jones County.  Mr. Smith, who politically was a
democrat, and religiously a Baptist, died April 13,
1873.  Mr. Smith has spent his life in planting and has
been successful.  In addition to an 1,800 acre
plantation near Blountsville, Jones County, he has
other plantations in Putnam County, Ga.  In 1861 he
enlisted as a private in Company B, Twelfth Georgia
regiment.  He was in the seven days’ fight and the
second Manassas, in which he was wounded in the left
arm.  He returned home, and was not again in the
regular service.  He was elected sheriff of the county
in 1868, and served four years.  Mr. Smith was married
in Jones County to Miss Mary A.M. Tufts, April 14,
1870, who has borne him ten children: Tallulah, wife of
Charles Farrar, Jones County, Ga.; Sarah J.; William;
Mamie Lee; John T.; Fannie; Laura Belle; Claude;
Virgil, and Colton.  Mr. Smith is a democrat and a
master Mason.