Jessamine County KyArchives Biographies.....Smith, George Stokes 
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Author: Bennett H. Young

Rev. George Stokes Smith.

   Reverend George Stokes Smith was a Baptist preacher and was also a delegate
to the convention, at Danville, in 1792, which framed the first Kentucky
Constitution, He was the maternal grandfather of the large and numerous family
of Moseleys, Wallers and Smiths, who live in the Keene neighborhood. He has over
250 descendants in Kentucky, and was one of the men who lived in the limits of
Jessamine county in the earliest days of its settlement.

   He was a successful Baptist preacher, and served several churches in Woodford 
and Mercer counties., and at the old Mount Pleasant Church, at Keene. He led a 
useful, honorable and distinguished life. His election to the Constitutional 
Convention in 1792, shows his wide popularity and his distinguished position. 
Fayette county had five members, and among them men of high standing, but none 
wielded more influence than their ministerial colleague.


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A HISTORY OF JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY,
FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO 1898.
By BENNETT H. YOUNG,
PRESIDENT POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; MEMBER FILSON CLUB; MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION, 1890; AUTHOR HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF KENTUCKY, OF "BATTLE OF
BLUE LICKS, ETC, ETC.

S. M. DUNCAN, ASSOCIATE AUTHOR.

Every brave and good life out of the past is a treasure which cannot  be
measured in money, and should be preserved with faithfullest care.

LOUISVILLE, KY.: COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING CO., 1898.


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