Talbot-Upson-Crawford County GaArchives Biographies.....Howell, Adalade "Addie" Smith July 20, 1865 - April 20, 1951
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T. Bradford Willis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007638 March 3, 2013, 10:21 pm

Source: Daniel Allen's Family Register, DAR papers of Hester M. Beck Willis (a granddaughter), Anthony Garnett Smith, Jr. Family Bible
Author: T. Bradford Willis, DDS

By Bradford Willis:
 
Adalade "Addie" Smith was born July 20, 1865, the daughter Anthony Garnett 
Smith, Jr. and Elizabeth M. Smith of Upson and Talbot counties, Georgia.  Very 
little is now known about her childhood in Georgia until her marriage on 
Christmas Eve, 1890.  Her husband was Joshua Calhoun Howell (1862-1901) of 
Upson County, Georgia. His parents were John Noah Howell and Elizabeth "Eliza" 
Martin Howell, pioneers of Upson County.  The Howell and Martin families were 
early members of Martin Methodist Church there. Only the churchyard on the 
side of a hill on Martin Church Road remains as a symbol this early 
congregation.
 
Joshua C. and Addie Smith Howell later came by train to Hill County, Texas, 
where he was a schoolmaster and owned a cotton farm.  On April 17, 1892, they 
joined the Methodist Church of West, McLennan County, Texas.  Addie had her 
daily cups of coffee from a cup from her parents' wedding china. This cup was 
later given to her daughter, Elizabeth "Bessie" Howell Beck, a school teacher 
for many years at North Waco Elementary School, who later passed it on to her 
daughter, Hester M. Beck Willis.  Addie Smith Howell was well-known for her 
beautiful handwork and her beautiful garden at 301 West Columbus Street in 
West.
 
After the death of her husband at age 38, Addie was left to rear their 
children: Elizabeth "Bessie" Lethella Howell (1891-1986), Mamie Ross Howell 
(1893-1965), Robert Calhoun Howell (1895-1979), Jewell Howell (1896-1981), and 
Winnie Davis Howell (1898-1902).  Addie provided a fine Christian home for her 
family, but did not have an easy time. Her brother, Wesley Asbury Smith, MD, 
would often visit the family. Many descendants wonder why she did not move 
back to Georgia where so many members of her family resided. She employed a 
man to oversee her late husband's farm.
 
As her health declined in later years, she moved to Waco, Texas where she 
passed on April 20, 1951. She is buried next to her husband and some of their 
descendants in Bell Springs Cemetery in Hill County, Texas. It was her 
granddaughter, Hester M. Beck Willis, who was the first to document and join 
the Daughters of the Republic of Texas on the service of Addie's father, 
Anthony Garnett Smith, Jr., during the Texas Revolution.  Many descendants 
reside in Texas.

Additional Comments:
This article was published in the Talbotton New Era, Talbot County, Ga., on
Feb. 14, 2013 with the help of Mr. Vann Chapman, the editor.


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