Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Ballard SMITH

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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BALLARD SMITH - was born March 3, 1822, on the farm where he now lives 
in Fort Spring District, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The farm is valued
at 310,000, and is one of the best located in the county, springs of living 
water abounding in every field. The house in which Mr. SMITH lives was built by 
the CLENDENINS, whose massacre by the Indians is recorded elsewhere in this volume,
and in one corner of the general living room is a cupboard that was in the house at
the time of the massacre. It is kept by request of Mr. SMITH's mother, and will 
never be removed by any hand but that of Time, the gradual destroyer of all things. 
The first wife of Ballard SMITH, Mary G. (CORRELL), was the mother of his six 
children: Eliza J., born March 15, 1867, died March 13, 1870; Georgie H., 
January 15, 1869, and Joseph B., February 19, 1870, live at home; Annie Myrtle, 
June 22, 1873, died March 31, 1882; William Walter, April 27, 1875, Lillie L.,
April 7, 1877, live at home. On Culverson Creek, Greenbrier County, March 21,
1883, Ballard SMITH wedded Martha C. CORRELL, who was born near Frankford, this 
county, in 1830.  Moses and Nancy (HARTMAN) CORRELL, her parents, were Virginians,
the former born in Bedford county and the latter in Roanoke County. His birth was
on the 8th of April, 1801, and he is still living in Greenbrier County; his wife,
now deceased, was born February 18, 18O1. Ballard SMITH, born in Virginia in 
1774, and Mary J. (DAVIS) SMITH, born in Greenbrier County, both now deceased, 
were the parents of the subject of this sketch.  His father was a lawyer of 
eminence in his profession, represented his county in the legislature, and was 
member of Congress. Ballard SMITH's post office address is Lewisburg, 
Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.