MACON COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - NIMROD JARRETT SMITH, AUG 2, 1893

Published in the Franklin Press, Aug. 9, 1893 - Vol. VII, No. 43

CHIEF NIMROD JARRETT SMITH DEAD

Nimrod Jarrett Smith, ex-chief of the Eastern Band of CHerokees, died August
2nd, at his home in Swain county, after a long illness. Chief Smith was the
most prominent member of the Eastern band of Cherokees. He was born in
Cherokee County about 50 years ago. He was pretty well educated, quite
intelligent, a man of honor, and made friends among the whites wherever he
went. To form his acquaintance was to become his friend. He was a man of
splendid physique, straight and majestic in build, while his hair hung in jet
black curls about his shoulders. He was one-fourth white. He leaves a wife,
and two sons and three daughters. He was a prominent Mason, and was buried
with masonic honors at Yellow Hilll on the 5th inst. He was a good man, and
the Cherokees will mourn his death. 

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