Oglethorpe County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....Smith, Robert S. ************************************************ 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: T. Brad Willis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007638 August 5, 2012, 11:06 am Cemetery: Robert Smith Family Cemetery Name: Robert S. Smith Date Of Photograph: 1977 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/oglethorpe/photos/tombstones/robertsmithfamil/smith17378gph.jpg Image file size: 125.9 Kb Robert S. Smith was born on April 26, 1787 in Cumberland County, Virginia, the son of Robert and Hannah Andrews Smith of Cumberland County, Virginia, and later Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Robert Smith, the father of Robert S. Smith, was a veteran of the American Revolution. Robert S. Smith married Lucinda D. Gresham (born ca. 1801 in Georgia) on November 24, 1814 in Oglethorpe County. In 1820, Robert S. Smith and Lucinda D. Smith were charter members of the Mount Pleasant Methodist Church of Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Robert S. Smith was a planter and was listed on the 1820, 1830, and 1850 federal census in Oglethorpe County. According to the federal census mortality schedules, 1850-1885, he died in the month of September of asthma. Robert S. Smith died Sept. 29, 1859 in Oglethorpe County, GA and was buried in the family cemetery. Additional Comments: +++This is not the same Smith cemetery listed in the Oglethorpe County GAGenWeb Archives. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/oglethorpe/photos/tombstones/robertsmithfamil/smith17378gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb