Bio: Patrick H. Smith, Grant Parish, Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
Nashville and Chicago, The Southern Publishing Company, 1890
Submitted to USGENWEB by: Gaytha Carver Thompson




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PATRICK H. SMITH

Patrick H. Smith is accounted a prosperous agriculturist of Grant Parish, La.,
and like the majority of native North Carolinians, he is progressive in his
views and of an energetic temperament.  He was born in Robinson County in 1831
to Daniel and Susan (Brown) Smith, they being also natives of that county. 
The father was born in 1798.  In 1835 he removed to Talladega County, Ala.,
where he died in 1855, and his wife in 1876, both members of the Presbyterian
Church, the former a farmer by occupation.  He was tax collector of that
county for two years, and was a son of Patrick Smith, a Revolutionary soldier
of Scotch descent, who lived and died in North Carolina.  The mother's father
was Hugh Brown.

Patrick H. Smith is the fifth of eight sons and three daughters, and although
reared to a farm life, he succeeded in obtaining a good common school
education.  At the age of twenty one years he began teaching school, an
occupation he continued to follow until the opening of the Rebellion.  In 1857
he came to Jackson Parish, and in 1861 joined Company G, Twenty fifth Alabama
Infantry, Army of Tennessee, and was in the fights of Shiloh, Murfreesboro,
Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Atlanta, where he was wounded and
subsequently sent to retired camp, Lauderdale Springs, Miss., where he
received his papers retiring him from the army.  At that time he held the rank
of sergeant.

After the war he resumed teaching for one year in Alabama, then returned to
Louisiana, and was married in Grant Parish, in 1872 to Mrs. Mary Smith, a
daughter of John William Huthmance, a native of England, who merchandised in
Pope County, Ark., taught school in Shiloh and Vienna, La., and was editing a
paper at Winnfield, La, at the time of his death.  Mrs. Smith was also born in
England, and her union with Mr. Smith has resulted in the birth of three sons
and one daughter.  

Since the war they have resided on their present farm of 160 acres, Mrs. Smith
being the owner of 108 acres of land.  Mr. Smith is an industrious and
honorable gentleman, and all whom he knows respect and esteem him.  He is a
member of the Farmers' Union.