Lowndes-Richmond County GaArchives Biographies.....Smith, Edward Joseph 1872 - living in 1913
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   EDWARD JOSEPH SMITH, M. D. The senior member of the medical profession at
Hahira, Dr. Smith is both a successful and skillful physician and also a
progressive citizen and busines man of this community.

   Edward Joseph Smith is a native of Leesburg, South Carolina, where he was
born October 20, 1872. The family were originally of Virginia, but the
grandfather Smith was probably born in Edgecomb county, South Carolina, and
spent most of his life there as a planter, operating his lands with slave labor.
Grant S. Smith, father of the doctor, was born in Edgecomb county, and being a
young man at the time of the war between the states he enlisted in a South
Carolina regiment of cavalry, under the command of General, later Senator,
Butler. His regiment was part of the Army of Northern Virginia, and he
experienced a long and varied service in this principal seat of the war,
including the Gettysburg campaign and the battles and movements about Richmond
and Petersburg. He was never captured nor wounded, though several horses were
shot from under him. When the war was over he came to Georgia and established a
store and stock yard at Augusta, where he was successfully engaged in business
until 1875. Failing health then caused him to sell out, and he spent his last
days at Leesburg, South Carolina, where he died in 1879. He married Elizabeth
Grout, and she is still living, her home being in Augusta. She is a native of
South Carolina, and her father, Uriah Crout, also born in that state and of
German parentage, was a planter in the vicinity of Leesville until after the
war, when he was engaged in mercantile business at Leesville, and lived to the
ripe age of eighty-nine years. The three children of Grant S. Smith and wife
are: Inez, the widow of W. D. Van Pelt, a former attorney at Augusta; Edward
Joseph; and Harry L., who is in the service of the C. & W. C. Railroad Company
at Augusta.

   Dr. Smith spent his youth in Augusta, where he attended the public schools
and Horton Institute. Early in life he made choice of medicine for his career,
and in preparation he entered the medical department of the State University,
where he was graduated M. D. in April, 1899. For the first two years he was
engaged in practice at Augusta, and located at Hahira in 1901. He has a large
practice and is a member of the county and state medical societies. The doctor
is also secretary and treasurer of the Georgia, Alabama & Western Railroad
Company. In politics he is a Democrat, and has been a member of the town council
two years. His fraternal associations are with Pine Camp No. 265, W. 0. W.

   June 1, 1898, Dr. Smith married Miss Nellie Regina Mahoney, who was born in
Augusta, a daughter of John J. and Mary Mahoney. Dr. Smith and wife are parents
of three children: Virgil C., John Raymond and Dorothy.



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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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