McDuffie County GaArchives Cemeteries.....Smith Family Cemetery
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Michele Lewis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006732 March 2003

The Smith Family Cemetery is located on Whitaker Road, south off of Bowden's Pond Road.  
Whitaker Road is a circle.  In the crook of the circle (the west point of the crook) the graves 
are in a field to the SW.   
 
This cemetery was surveyed by Michele Lewis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006732
 on 21 Mar 2003.

Wright Smith
Co F
10 GA INF
CSA
(no dates)

There is a later marker which reads...

Wright Smith
22 Oct 1839 - 13 Mar 1897

His Sons:

Thomas Edwin Wright Smith 1892 - 1897
Samuel Drury Smith 1894 - 1897

Grandson:
Willie Wright Smith
infant son of J.E. and W.P. Smither

(all 4 names are on the same marker)

Local lore says that Wright Smith was wounded at Gettysburg.  He later lost
his leg and went "crazy."  He lured two of his sons away and shot them.  He then 
shot himself.  Supposedly he tried to lure his daughter into the trap but she 
sensed something was wrong and she did not go.