Talbot-Oglethorpe-Upson County GaArchives Biographies.....Smith, Laura [including Her Sister Virginia "Jennie" Smith] 1844 - July 13, 1934 ************************************************ 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 July 26, 2013, 9:25 am Source: Family Records, Smith Bible, County History Books Author: T. Bradford Willis Miss Laura Smith and Miss Virginia "Jennie" Smith were pioneers of Talbot County. They were daughters of Charles Lee Smith, Sr. and Martha T. Glenn Smith. Several articles about their parents, the Charles Lee Smith, Sr. plantation home, and the family cemetery in Talbot County have been published in the past year in the Talbotton New Era. Born circa 1844 in Georgia, Miss Laura Smith joined the Collinsworth Methodist Church in 1863 according to A Rockaway in Talbot: Travels in an Old Georgia County, Volume II, by William H. Davidson. After the death of her parents, she continued to live in her parents' plantation home in Talbot County with her sister, Miss Virginia "Jennie" Smith. The rock piers of the old Charles Lee Smith, Sr. home may still be seen, but are now found in the present Big Lazer Creek WMA in Talbot County. Miss Laura Smith passed away on July 13, 1934 in Talbot County and was buried in the family cemetery near their old home. Miss Virginia "Jennie" Smith was born circa 1839 in Georgia, and she joined the Collinsworth Methodist Church in September of 1859 according to A Rockaway in Talbot: Travels in an Old Georgia County, Volume II, by William H. Davidson. According to notes written in 1978 by Anthony George Smith, as Miss Jennie became older, her mind began to fail, and one night she slipped away from the old house and was later found some three miles down the road. She had walked away with her little dog, Hood. It is believed that she died between 1915 and 1920 in Talbot County and was also buried in the family cemetery. In November of 2012, a granite grave marker, with their names, was placed in the family cemetery next to the marble grave marker of Robert Lee Smith (Feb. 3, 1881-May 6, 1881.) Additional Comments: This sketch was published in the Talbotton New Era on July 25, 2013. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/talbot/bios/smith1033gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb