Talbot County GaArchives Biographies.....Smith, Charles Lee And Martha Glenn 1795 - 1877 ************************************************ 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 July 18, 2012, 12:19 pm Source: unnamed Newspaper Author: T. Brad Willis CHARLES LEE SMITH, SR. Birth: Feb. 10, 1795 Cumberland County Virginia, USA Death: Dec. 4, 1877 Talbot County Georgia, USA Charles Lee Smith, Sr. was born February 10, 1795 in Virginia (the 1860 census for Prattsburg, Talbot County, GA and the 1870 census for Red Bone, Talbot County, GA) or in Georgia (the 1850 census for Distict 23 in Talbot County, GA) and died December 4, 1877. He was the son of Larkin Smith, Sr. (a veteran of the American Revolution) and Ava (Avey) Bradley Smith. MARTHA GLENN SMITH Birth: Jun., 1801 Georgia, USA Death: Sep. 6, 1878 Talbot County Georgia, USA Martha T. Glenn was born June 1801, the daughter of Simeon Glenn, Sr. and Elizabeth Murphey Smith. She married Charles Lee Smith, Sr. on January 20, 1820 in Elbert County, Georgia. Charles Lee Smith, Sr. was a veteran of the War of 1812. He married Martha T. Glenn on January 20, 1820 in Elbert County, Georgia. Charles Lee Smith, Sr. is listed as a planter in the 1860 census for Prattsburg, Talbot County, GA. His plantation included forty-two slaves in 1860. His plantation, the dependencies, the architecture of the plantation house, and the Clarles Lee Smith, Sr. family cemetery are described in great detail in A Rockaway in Talbot: Travels in an Old Georgia County, Volume II, by William H. Davidson. His will may be found in Will Book B, pages 233-234, in Talbot County; it mentions many of his children. The following is an article from an unknown and undated newspaper which was found many years ago in the Anthony Garnett Smith, Jr. and Elizabeth M. Smith Smith Family Bible when it was owned by James Anthony (Pete) Vining, a Smith descendant living in Thomaston, Georgia. Charles and Martha Smith. "Our buried friends can we forget Or must the grave eternal sever, They linger in our memory yet And in our hearts will live forever." There is something in death so sad, and gloomy, so dreaded to human nature, it separates from so much that is near and dear on earth, from kindred and friends, from so many objects of affection and hope, that we hail with delight our heavenly Christianity which furnishes rational assurances of safe and blessed passport through death's iron gates. Countless millions have tested the religion of the Bible and have confirmed its sufficiency in life and exulted in its victories in death. In its light of life and immortality, "Even now by faith we join our hands With those who went before And greet the blood besprinkled bands On the eternal shore." The Venerable Charles Smith, [Sr.] who passed away from earth near twelve months ago, was the oldest man, save one, in Talbot county, at the time of his death. He was also a soldier of the war of 1812. As a citizen honest, and trustworthy, as a friend sincere, and true, as a farmer industrious and successful, as a husband and father devoted and tender, his death is deeply felt in our community. He did not profess religion and unite with the church till late in life. The noble man whose Christian life ought to have begun in the morning, and shone like the sun through a long day, brighter and brighter unto the day of heaven, was postponed till the evening tide, and it was only like the evening that not appearing till the day was closing, beautiful indeed, but seen only for a little time. The last days of Charles Smith were the brightest and best, even tide it was light. Mrs. Martha Smith, the sharer of his joys and sorrows for nearly 60 years, a member of the Methodist church 61 years, in the 77th year of her age, fell on sleep September 6th, 1878. She was converted in her girlhood; her experience was clear, steady, scriptural, heart and life tranforming. An aged disciple, honored in the church, respected in the world. Her hoary head a crown of glory because she was found and steadily walked in the ways of righteousness. Rich in the experience of the ways of godliness, she threw a venerated shade over younger disciples, ever faithful found. How eloquent such a life! There says the world, is a true Christian, one whose goodness is not like the morning cloud and early dew that passeth away; the _______ of many summers, the storms of many winters, adversity and prosperity have assailed her and she turns neither to the right hand nor to the left, we believe after all she has not followed a cunningly devised fable. For several years, too old to find her way to the house of God, she sat at home ministered to by her loving children the light of heaven kindles upon the dim eyes, and strikes through the gray locks folded on the wrinkled temples, peace fills her last days, calmness sweeter grows her spirit, until the gates lifted and let in the worn out pilgrim into the mansions of light, to be forever associated with the white robed immortals around the throne. "O for the death of those Who slumber in the Lord, O, be like their's my last repose, Thine my last reward." - W. W. Stewart. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following information is taken from A Rockaway in Talbot, Travels in an Old Georgia County, Volume II, by William H. Davidson: The family Bible of Larkin Smith, [Sr.], father of Charles Lee Smith, Sr., provided the following information: Larkin Smith, born March 6, 1760, died October 20, 1834 Arey [Avey] Smith, his wife, born April 6, 1767, died October 10, 1807 Mary L. Smith, born November 3, 1784, died 1785 Parmelia [Permelia] Smith, born January 15, 1791, married to Chesley Arnold James O. Smith, born January 15, 1793, married a Miss Arnold Charles L. Smith, born February 10, 1795, married Martha Glenn Betty [Betsy] Smith, born July 5, 1797, married to W. G. Andrews Frances Smith, born October 30, 1799, married to a Mr. Davis Maria Smith, born September 10, 1801, married to Charles G. Hargrove Larkin Smith, Jr., born December 20, 1803, married Elizabeth Bradley July Ann [Juliana] Smith, born December 11, 1805, married to a Mr. Andrews James Kilpatrick Smith, born April 24, 1807, married Frances E. G. Smith In giving the above information, the owner of the Bible, Charles B. Hargrove, of Crawford, Georgia, stated that the births and deaths are from the Bible, "but marriages from memory of a cousin of father's, Charles Hargrove." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Appreciation is expressed to Mr. Claude C. Burgess, a member of the staff of the Thomaston-Upson Archives, for his excellent research on the Charles Lee Smith, Sr. and Anthony Garnett Smith, Jr. families of Talbot and Upson counties, Georgia. Without his fine assistance, we would not know about this Larkin Smith, Sr. Bible record in this excellent volume on Talbot County history. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From the 1850 Census: Residence: Talbot county, Talbot, Georgia Film Number: 442892 Digital GS Number: 4191564 Image Number: 00166 Line Number: 32 Dwelling House Number: 1108 Family Number: 1108 Marital Status: Free or Slave: Household Gender Age Charles Smith M 55y Martha Smith F 48y Asbury Smith M 28y Martha Smith F 17y Simeon Smith M 15y Caroline Smith F 14y Virginia Smith F 12y Laura Smith F 10y Eliza Smith F 7y Charles Smith M 4y John O'Conner ============================ Martha Glenn Smith Birth: Jun., 1801 Georgia, USA Death: Sep. 6, 1878 Talbot County Georgia, USA Martha T. Glenn was born June 1801, the daughter of Simeon Glenn, Sr. and Elizabeth Murphey Smith. She married Charles Lee Smith, Sr. on January 20, 1820 in Elbert County, Georgia. From The Daily Constitution, Atlanta, GA., Friday, May 3, 1878: "—Mrs. Martha Smith, of Talbot county, has a Bible one hundred and twenty-one years years old. In it is a record of a marriage in 1776." It is believed that this was a reference to what is known as the "John Archer Bible." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/talbot/bios/smith1016gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 8.5 Kb