MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - Newton J. Smiley
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NEWTON J. SMILEY, trustee of Marshall County, is a son of H.B. and Sarah
(Lowry) Smiley, natives of Kentucky and South Carolina, respectively.  The
father's chief occupation was farming, though in early life he worked at
the carpenter's trade.  He was a soldier under Jackson in the war of 1812,
and having lived to see the return of seventy-five winters was called from
the trials and tribulations of earth.  The mother was in her ninety-third
year when she died.  Our subject was born August 9, 1833 in the Bedford
fraction of Marshall County, and was of Irish-Scotch descent.  He was
educated in the country schools, and having farmed until 1861, he
volunteered in Company G, Thirty-second Tennessee Infantry as a private,
and was one of the brave boys who defended Fort Donelson.  After his
capture and imprisonment at Indianapolis, Ind., he was exchanged at
Vicksburg and re-entering the service was promoted to first lieutenant.
After nearly four of faithful service he returned home and soon after
engaged in the mercantile business in which he was successful, though twice
burned out.  Previous to the war, in 1857, he wedded Catherine E. Hall, by
whom he had seven children, all living.  Both he and wife are members of
the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church.  Like his father before him he is a warm Democrat.  In
1884 he was elected to the responsible position that he is now
occupying.  In connection with his office he is engaged in tilling the soil.

Surnames: Hall, Lowry, Smiley
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."