Talbot-Upson-Troup County GaArchives Biographies.....Lindsay, Sarah "Sally" W. Smith Colquitt April 27, 1798 - September 28, 1870 ************************************************ 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. Bradford Willis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007638 September 30, 2013, 10:10 pm Source: History of Upson County, Georgia by Carolyn Nottingham and Evelyn Hannah. Rev. Anthony Garnett Smith, Sr. Family Bible. Author: T. Bradford Willis Sarah "Sally" W. Smith was born April 27, 1798 in Virginia, the sister of Anthony Garnett Smith, Jr., a pioneer of Talbot County and Upson County, Georgia. They were the children of the Rev. Anthony Garnett Smith, Sr. (August 30, 1776 - January 18, 1852) and Mary "Polly" Allen Smith (December 21, 1777 - April 19, 1857). Their paternal grandfather, Robert Smith, Jr., was a veteran of the American Revolution and has a memorial VA marker at the Mt. Pleasant Church Cemetery. In the Rev. Anthony Garnett Smith, Sr. family Bible, Sally W. Smith married John A. Colquitt on October 27, 1813 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. In 1930, Carolyn Walker Nottingham and Evelyn Hannah published the History of Upson County, Georgia. They included a section on old families of Upson County. The following is a small portion of their history of the Colquitt family: "Robert T. Colquitt was one of the early members of the Plymouth colony settling in Virginia about 1620. One of his descendants, Anthony Colquitt, of Fairfax County, Va., who married Christina Terry, had three sons, Homer, Robert and Henry, all of whom served in the Revolutionary War. Following the southward trend, they came to Georgia, settling in Upson, Bibb and Talbot counties. Robert settled in Talbot County and was the father of John A. Colquitt, born June 24, 1783, who married Susan [sic] [Sally W.] Smith of that county. Nathaniel Garnett Colquitt, son of John A., born March 3, 1816, in Talbot, was an old settler of Upson. He married Elizabeth Arnold, of Griffin, Ga., niece of Rev. William Arnold, a Methodist minister. They had the following children: Susan, Elizabeth, William, Walter T., John and Ophelia. Garnett Colquitt's Upson plantation later came into the possession of William Hightower, a kinsman, while he moved nearer Thomaston to what is now known as the John McGee place. He was one of the tent holders of the old Upson camp ground. Only two of his children married in Upson, Susan, who married William Collier, and Elizabeth who married Chas. H. Greene, son of Thomas B. Greene. After the war he moved to Magnolia, Arkansas, where he lived until his death and where his other children married and raised their families. The leather money belt worn by Robert T. Colquitt on his arrival in the United States is now in the possession of Chas. Greene Colquitt of Arkansas, and is highly prized by the Colquitt family. A nephew of Garnett Colquitt, John A. Colquitt, is a resident of Monroe County, Ga. Alfred H. Colquitt, one time governor of Georgia and United States Senator, Walter Colquitt, attorney-at-law, and Mrs. Mary Hurst are cousins of Garnett Colquitt." John A. Colquitt died between October 9, 1848 and January 10,1849 , and his will was recorded in Upson County, Georgia. On December 11, 1851, his widow, Sally W. Smith Colquitt, married Benjamin Fero Hamilton Lindsay (March 11, 1797 - November 11, 1872) in Upson County. A planter in Troup County, Benjamin Fero Hamilton Lindsay was the son of Major John Lindsey [sic], a noted veteran of the American Revolution. Sally W. Smith Lindsay joined the First Methodist Church of LaGrange in the 1850s. She passed away September 28, 1870 and was buried in the Hill View/Hillview Cemetery in LaGrange. Many members of the Benjamin F. H. Lindsay family were also interred in this historic Georgia cemetery. Appreciation is expressed to Mr. Claude C. Burgess of the Thomaston-Upson Archives for his assistance in the preparation of this article. Additional Comments: The article was published in the Talbotton New Era on September 19, 2013. Appreciation is expressed to its editor, Vann Chapman. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/talbot/bios/lindsay424bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb