Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Smith, Mamie Adams April 1958 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sam Luckey http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003136 June 27, 2005, 1:29 pm "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 11 Apr 1958 Obituary of Mamie Adams Smith as written on page 9 of "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 11 Apr 1958. Camilla, Georgia. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon, April 4, at 3:30 o'clock at the Sale City Baptist Church for Mrs. Tyre G. Smith, 80, who died early the day before at the home of her son, Clinton H. Smith, 408 1/2 North Jackson Street, in Albany. The services were conducted by the Rev. Otis Glover and Dr. L. A. Stephens, the latter of Albany. Interment followed in the Sale City cemetery. Survivors include two sons, Clinton H. Smith and Fenton W. Smith of Albany; three sisters, Mrs. E. B. McDaniel and Mrs. H. T. Hill, both of Sale City, and Mrs. J. T. West of Pelham; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Mrs. Smith, who would have celebrated her 81st birthday in August of this year, had spent her entire life in Mitchell County and was the daughter of a prominent Missionary Baptist preacher in the early days of Mitchell County. He was the Rev. George Washington Lafayette Adams, known as Lafayette, who died in this county in 1890 after serving Mt. Olive, Liberty Hill, Meigs and other churches. It was the Rev. Adams who gave the land upon which the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church and cemetery are now located. As the oldest living descendant of the man who was among the county's first preachers The Camilla Enterprise interviewed Mrs. Smith last summer while gathering information for the 1957 Mitchell County Centennial Edition. She said her father was born in Georgia in 1849 and by 1860 when the first census of Mitchell County was made he was listed in it. He was the son of Field and Rhoda Adams listed in McElveenville district. The wife of Rev. Adams was the former Rebecca Lucretia Mason and the Mason family was also listed in the county's first census. Rebecca Mason's father was Mortimer Mason. The Rev. G. W. L. Adams had a sister named Frances who married a Daniel Palmer. The Rev. Adams and his wife reared a large family of children who spread a wide circle of Christian influence upon this county. Mrs. Smith, or Mamie, was the eldest; Cora, who married Will Wilson and both are now dead; Emma, who is now dead, who married Harmon Davidson; Lou, now dead, who married Tom K. Strickland who lives near Pelham and has passed his 89th birthday; Sue, who married Jim Youmans and they are both now dead; Jenny, who married Burton West who is now dead but still lives in Pelham; George, who died and who was the only boy in the family of ten children; Mattie, who died before she was married; Etta, who married H. T. Hill and lives in Sale City; Betty, who was five months old when her father died and who married E. B. McDaniel of Sale City. He is now dead but she still lives in Sale City. Mrs. Smith was married in December of 1897 to Tyre G. Smith, son of Silas Smith of Terrell County, who came to Mitchell County a year before their marriage. Only twin boys, Fenton and Clinton, both of whom live in Albany, survive from the group of children the couple had. There was Vera who married a Gordon Phelps and they are both now dead; Leon, Tyre G. Jr. and Mason, who are all also now dead. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/mitchell/obits/s/smith270nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb