JohnsonFamily2/19/24 - Person Sheet
JohnsonFamily2/19/24 - Person Sheet
Birth28 Jun 1838, Hamilton Co, TN
Death25 Jul 1912, Sequatchie, TN
BurialAnderson Flat Cem, Bruno, Marion, AR
OccupationTeacher
EducationHamilton Pub Schools, Academy At Fairmount
ReligionWelch Chapel Methodist Church
FatherElijah Smith (1810-1840)
MotherNancy Sawyer (1811-<1860)
Spouses
Birth27 Jun 1846
Death24 Sep 1927
BurialAnderson Flat Cem, Bruno, Marion, AR
FatherRussell M. Martin (1816-1894)
MotherMary Rogers (~1823->1864)
Family ID4768
Marriage4 Jan 1866
ChildrenMary E. (1866-)
Nancy Rebecca (1868-1946)
Eli Lonnie (1871-)
Elbert R. (1874-)
Newton A. (1875-)
Arthur B. (1879-)
John B. (1881-)
Jessie D. (1883-)
Notes for Alexander Proud Smith
I have a picture of the stone.
Lived in Hamilton Co., TN for a while, then moved to Sequatchie Co.
From Tennessee marriages, 1851-1900, Ancestry.com
SMITH, ALEXANDER - NARRAMORE, RUTHA 14 Jun 1878 SEQU TN
On March 28. 1971. an article appeared in the Chattanooga free press about Joe Woodhead and his memories of Hamilton County in the 1800s. One portion of the article mentions Alexander P. Smith, brother of Elisha Kirkland Smith.
My mother, Susan Martin, was only 4-years-old at the time of the CiviI War. There were skirmishes alI around their place. They could hear the roar of the cannon at Chickamauga. My Aunt Sarah was older, a young lady, when the Confederate soldiers came and found the last pig that was to keep them from starvation. Sarah, being hot-tempered, grabbed a poker from the fireplace. Take that pig and I’lI brain you, she shouted at the foragers. Her father restrained her, and the last pig was taken. They were starving.
With the arrival of Gen. Grant in Chattanooga, the siege no longer held. The starving federals could see a glimmer of hope. Sarah’s father put her on a horse, with empty saddle bags, and wrote a Ietter to Gen. Grant that they were on, starvation.
“This attractive young lady, Sarah, rode the distance of around five mies from their Hixon home to Gen. Grant’s headquarters on First Street. Gen. Grant gave the fami1y some supplies and sent one of his Federal guards, Alexander Smith, to escort the young lady back home. Romance grew out of the meeting and Sarah became Mrs. Alexander Smith.”388
A. P. Smith
Co. A.
6 TENN.
MTD. INF.
(Union)1721
Lived in Hamilton Co., TN for a while, then moved to Sequatchie Co.
From Tennessee marriages, 1851-1900, Ancestry.com
SMITH, ALEXANDER - NARRAMORE, RUTHA 14 Jun 1878 SEQU TN
On March 28. 1971. an article appeared in the Chattanooga free press about Joe Woodhead and his memories of Hamilton County in the 1800s. One portion of the article mentions Alexander P. Smith, brother of Elisha Kirkland Smith.
My mother, Susan Martin, was only 4-years-old at the time of the CiviI War. There were skirmishes alI around their place. They could hear the roar of the cannon at Chickamauga. My Aunt Sarah was older, a young lady, when the Confederate soldiers came and found the last pig that was to keep them from starvation. Sarah, being hot-tempered, grabbed a poker from the fireplace. Take that pig and I’lI brain you, she shouted at the foragers. Her father restrained her, and the last pig was taken. They were starving.
With the arrival of Gen. Grant in Chattanooga, the siege no longer held. The starving federals could see a glimmer of hope. Sarah’s father put her on a horse, with empty saddle bags, and wrote a Ietter to Gen. Grant that they were on, starvation.
“This attractive young lady, Sarah, rode the distance of around five mies from their Hixon home to Gen. Grant’s headquarters on First Street. Gen. Grant gave the fami1y some supplies and sent one of his Federal guards, Alexander Smith, to escort the young lady back home. Romance grew out of the meeting and Sarah became Mrs. Alexander Smith.”388
A. P. Smith
Co. A.
6 TENN.
MTD. INF.
(Union)1721