Pickens County GaArchives Photo person.....Rhina America and Victoria Silver Smith Family 1919
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The adults in the photo are my grandparents: 
Grandfather: Rhina America Smith b.March 7, 1892 in Pickens Co Ga. He died in 
Polk Co. Ga Dec 19,1948.He was the son of William Joseph Smith (b 1852 Lumpkin 
Co Ga ) and Mary Gilstrap(b 1858 SC)Smith. William Smith was the son of Thomas 
Harrison (b 1826 SC who fought in the Civil War/ Cherokee Raiders) and Harriet 
Elizabeth Taylor (b 1832 SC)Smith of Lumpkin/Dawson Co Ga. Mary Gilstrap was 
the daughter of Charles Asberry Gilstrap (who died in the Civil War at 
Vicksburg) and Martha Jane Willson Gilstrap of Pickens Co SC to High Tower 
Forsyth Co before 1860.

Grandmother: Victoria Silver/Silvers Smith b Pickens Co Ga. March 12, 1892. She 
died in DeKalb Co July 30, 1922. She was the daughter of Levi B."Bud" Silver 
and Jane Amanda Wilson Silver of Pickens Co Ga. 
Levi was the great grandson of the Revolutionary War soldier: George Silver Jr 
who fought under General George Washington and is buried at Kona, Mitchell Co 
NC. This is a historical site dedicated in his honor. Silver descendants all 
over the United States gather at his grave site every year for a reunion.Most 
of Levi's Ga.ancestors and siblings are buried at Ball Creek Baptist Cemetery 
in Pickens Co. Ga., including his grandfather John Silver (b 1785), older son 
of George Jr. Jame Amanda Wilson was the daughter of James R. Wilson and 
Lucinda Allen Wilson who migrated to Gilmer Co. Ga/ Coosawatee District from 
Yancey Co NC in 1874.
Children on the photo are from left to right: Carl Thomas Smith, Saphrona Smith 
and baby Ralph Smith. My mother: Beatrice Smith and her sister Daisy Smith were 
born between 1920-22.

Additional Comments:
My grandmother and both of her sisters: Katie Silver Smith (married Oscar 
Bennett Smith in Pickens Co Ga) and Lucinda Jane Silver all died in 1922 in 
their thirties. Their brother Jasper Taylor Silver lived to be almost 100!Oscar 
was the brother of Rhina America Smith.

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