SMITH, (Capt.) Jones P., Troop County, GA., then St. Landry Parish,
Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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CAPTAIN JONES P. SMITH, OPELOUSAS.--Captain Smith was born in Troop
county, Georgia, February 15, 1833.  He is the son of Simon and Sarah
(Persons) Smith, both natives of Georgia.  They were married in this
State, and removed to Alabama in 1847.  Simon Smith was a farmer by
occupation.  He died in Alabama in 1870, his wife surviving him until
1883.

The subject of our sketch was reared and received his education in the
respective States in which his parents resided.  He removed to Louisiana
in 1853, and located in Claiborne parish, where he remained until the
breaking out of the war.  At its beginning he enlisted as a private in
Company B, Twelfth Louisiana Infantry, and in the organization of the
company he was elected its captain.  He participated in the battles at
Belmont, Missouri; Shiloh, Corinth, Mississippi, and Vicksburg, and was
with Hood in his Tennessee campaign.  He served until the close of the
war, and was with General Hood in South Carolina at the time of the
surrender.  When the war closed Captain Smith returned to his home in
Claiborne parish and devoted himself to his plantation interests.  He
removed to St. Landry parish in 1867, where he now owns thirteen hundred
acres of land, nine hundred acres of which are under cultivation,
chiefly in cotton and corn.  Captain Smith was married in 1858 to Mattie
E. Boring, daughter of Joseph and Sicily (Wafer) Boring.  To them was
born one son--Theo. S., who is now practising medicine in Acadia parish. 
Mrs. Smith died in 1859, at Homer, Louisiana.  The Captain subsequently
married Laura A. Sassiter.  She died in 1884.  Captain Smith has been a
prominent member of the Masonic fraternity since 1854.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 76.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.