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Submitted: 2/4/13 • Approved: 2/22/13 • Last Updated: 2/25/13 • R826746-G0-S3
Served in the Home Guards under a Captain Oliver in the CSA
May 24, 1828 - May 25, 1908
Aged 79 yrs, 10 months, 1 day
Alfred Smith, farmer, of Lee's Township, Crawford Co,Ark, was born in Hawkins County, Tenn, and was a son of John B Smith and Jane (Gallahorn) Smith.
He received but a limited education during his youth, and at the age of eighteen began life on his own account,as a farm hand.
In 1855 he married Miss M A Williams, daughter of Thomas . and Kansas (Moberly) Williams, of this county. Mrs Smith bore him one child, and died in 1865.
The following year he was united in marriage to Miss Melissa C Brown, who left no children. His third marriage occurred in 1875, when Mrs Lucretia Jane (Finnan) Morris, daughter of Alexander Finnan, of Tennessee, became his wife.
Mr Smith was a successful farmer, and the owner of 160 acres of land, about forty-five of which he had under cultivation. He was non-partisan in politics, but during the war served in the Home Guards under Capt Oliver. His wife is a member of the Methodist Church.
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