Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Smith, Chesterfield Harrell November 27, 1908
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The Schley County News  Friday, November 27, 1908  
DR. SMITH DEAD As we go to press, we learn of the death
of our esteemed neighbor and citizen, Dr. C.H. Smith,
his useful life coming to a close Friday night at 8
o'clock, after a lingering illness of several months
standing. 



The Schley County News  Friday, December 4, 1908  

IN MEMORY OF DR. SMITH In the death of Dr. Chesterfield
Harrell Smith which occured on last Friday night,
Ellaville lost one of her oldest and most useful
citizens.  Possibly there is not another man in the
county who was so thoroughly identified with the past
history of our town from its infancy up to the present,
than was Dr. Smith.  In all things pertaining to the
welfare or the development of his town and its people
he was ever active, conscientious and progressive, and
while his death came at the end of a long and useful
career, it was nevertheless a sad blow, not only to his
immediate family, but to an entire people as well.


Dr. Smith was born Nov.30th un 1829 in Macon, Ga., he
died in Ellaville, Ga., Nov. 27th, 1908.  


He attended Medical College in Richmond, Va., for some
time and graduated in Savannah, Ga., where he received
his diploma in 1855 and also won a prize from Savannah
Medical College for the best thesis.


After spending some time practicing medicine in
Atlanta, he came here and settled in Pond Town, he
assisted in the laying out of this beautiful little
village Ellaville and had his pretty drug store rolled
up in one of its most beautiful localities, as soon as
it became the Co. site, when he gratified his desire to
make lovely his surroundings by planting flowers
keeping his mind full of that which goes to make life
attractive, and develope the good in others.  He and
Mr. Henry Davis (who was one of Ellaville's merchants)
organized the Methodist Sunday school and filled the
office of Superintendant, which school will ever stand
as a monument to his memory, and of which he was
Superintendant until the spring of this year, when his
suffering made him reluctantly give up, since then his
beautiful submission to God's will has been pronounced,
and in patience and quietness of soul he had waited for
he change which he knew would come.


He moved to Perry before the war and entered the
Confederate service as Lieutenant of the Perry
Artillery at its commencement and after the war
returned to Ellaville, and in 1869 married Mrs. J.F.
Berry, nee Miss Susie M. Sherman.


In 1870 they moved to LaGrange, but in 1872 returned to
Ellaville after persistant invitation to come back,
where his life was spent until 1893 when he went to New
Smyrna, Fla., where he practiced medicine until the
disease of which he died (cancer on the face) made him
give up the beautiful home there to return to dear old
Ellaville for the remainder of his life.


The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 1
o'clock in the Methodist church of this place.
Witnessed by hundreds of friends whose presence
attested their approval of his long and Godly walk
among men.


The burial ceremonies were conducted by his brother
Masons at the grave in the Ellaville cemetery.



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