Comments below shared courtesy of Peggy Smith Wolfe #47006885:
According to family member W. G White, December 1, 2005: E. M. Smith enlisted February 11, 1862 in S. D. McClellan's Co. 9th Alabama Volunteers, 50th Alabama Infantry. He was captured July 1, 1863 and held prisoner at Ft. Delaware until released June 15, 1865.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Smith, Alba, Texas
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Smith were both born and raised and married near Jacksonville, Ala. Mr. Smith was born Oct. 17, 1837, and Mrs. Smith Oct 28 of the same year. Mrs. Smith was Miss H. S. Smith before her marriage. They were married Jan. 10, 1861. They have five children living, three boys and two girls, all married; twenty-two grandchildren and thirty- six great-grandchildren. The children are: Mrs. M. J. White, Alba, Texas; J. E. Smith, Rising Star, Texas; W. E. Smith, Alba, Texas; Mrs. C. Z. Beckham, Stratford, Ok.; and S. E. Smith, Arbala, Texas. Their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary was celebrated Jan. 10, 1917, at Alba.
Mr. Smith was a Confederate soldier, serving the second year of the war with the Fifty-Eighty Alabama Infantry. He was captured July 1, 1863, and was held in prison twenty-three months and fifteen days at Fort Delaware, in the State of that name.
This couple came to Texas in the fall of 1869 and located near old Cornersville, Hopkins County. There they resided twenty years, removing from there to Tarrant, Hopkins County. After living there twenty years they moved to Wood County, in 1909.
Mr. Smith is a Jeffersonian Democrat and a reconstructed rebel. He is a farmer and has followed the plow over seventy years. [Newspaper clipping, perhaps from Alba publication, date unknown]
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CELEBRATES 85TH BIRTHDAY
By E. M. Smith, Stratfore, Ok.
I wish, through the Farm News, to greet on this, the eighty-fifth anniversary of my birth, all of my good old friends who may be readers of the paper. I wish for all of them prosperity and happiness through life, and in the end an eternal home in heaven.
I was born in Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. 17, 1837. In 1840 my father, Enoch Smith, moved to Calhoun County, Ala., and located near Jacksonville, where I was reared in poverty and almost in obsurity, not having the advantage of an education. Here I grew to manhood. I was married to Miss H. S. Nesmith Jan. 10, 1861. In 1862 I was called upon to volunteer and take up arms in defense of my country, which call I obeyed at once. I enlisted in Captain S. D. McClellan's company, Ninth Alabama Volunteers, on Feb. 11, 1862. I served until July 1, 1863. I was captured then and held as a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware. I was released June 15, 1865, returning home June 23 with naught but willing heart and hands to work.
To our union three sons and three daughters were born. The sons were all too old for the late war, their ages ranging from 44 to 54 years. The two younger sons died since the war closed. The young man in the photo is my grandson. He went overseas and was trice wounded. He belonged to a company of seventy-two trained musicians, all returning home except one. Roy O. Beckham is 28 years old and resides at Stratford, Ok.
I moved to Texas in 1869 and settled in Hopkins County, fifty-two years ago. I am a Jeffersonian Democrat and never scratched a ticket. AM a reconstruceted rebel, farmer and have followed the plow on injunction of the master for seventy-five years. My off-spring number 68.
I am sending a picture of four generations, myself, 85; my daughter, Mrs. R. L. Beckham, 50; my grandson, Roy Beckham, 28, and my great-grandson, Lee Roy Beckham, 4. [Elias M. Smith, 1922, clipping from Farm News - 1922 - Farm News]
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From Sul Springs, Texas, Elias M. Smith wrote to his sister's mother-in-law (age 77) on May 31, 1892: "Mrs. Aletha Cane, Big Valley, Texas
Respected Madam--Mother and Sister in Christ, It affords me untold pleasure to read But a few lines from an old friend from whome I have long since learned to love, and as an appreciation of your kind letter I Seat myself to try to respond to Same, you Said you gladly received my Kind words and that you had not forgotten us and that you was Glad that Tea was getting better her health is still improving and I think She will finely recover. But it will take time. you said you was very feeble and had heart discase. One of the inspired appostles Said that these light Afflictions which are But for a moment Shall work out for us a fare more and Exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory Beyond this vale of tears. Earth has no Sorrows that Heven cannt heal. The Christians hope is a Blessed hope. I often wonder why there is so much affliction in the world. But God works in misterious ways his wonders to perform So we conclude it will take all the afflictions and troubles of this life to ripen us for the life that is to come, in one of the Ancient Battles we read that a connon Ball Struck a fort and defaced the Buty of it and tore up the Earth and from that ugly casm Sprand up a fountain of never failing water. the more you bruse the Rose the Sweeter the perfume--to the Christian Death it is Said is only a Dream and if so how peaceful the Slumbers how pleasant the wakening But to the ungodly death will be a dreadful reality This is a sad thought and one upon which we do not like to think about or talk about...
When I take in all my surroundings I can But Exclame as did David that Surely goodness and mercy has followed me all the days of my life and then Exclame What Shall I render unto the Lord for all his Benefits unto me. We Close Praying that God may add his Blessings to us all and that the remnant of our days may be spent to his Prase.
Yours in love E. M. Smith
To J. A. Godwin, [his brother-in-law and Aletha's son, at the same time he writes of his farm.] "We are having rain in abundance.... It has been too wet and cold for cotton--corn and oats are very promising. I commenced cutting wheat yesterday... My reaper works fine... I can plow 12 or 14 acres a day and soon run over my crops I expect to cut wheat and oats for the Public. we have a good garden plenty of chickens milk and butter in abundance.
Yours Truly"
According to family member W. G White, December 1, 2005: E. M. Smith enlisted February 11, 1862 in S. D. McClellan's Co. 9th Alabama Volunteers, 50th Alabama Infantry. He was captured July 1, 1863 and held prisoner at Ft. Delaware until released June 15, 1865.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Smith, Alba, Texas
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Smith were both born and raised and married near Jacksonville, Ala. Mr. Smith was born Oct. 17, 1837, and Mrs. Smith Oct 28 of the same year. Mrs. Smith was Miss H. S. Smith before her marriage. They were married Jan. 10, 1861. They have five children living, three boys and two girls, all married; twenty-two grandchildren and thirty- six great-grandchildren. The children are: Mrs. M. J. White, Alba, Texas; J. E. Smith, Rising Star, Texas; W. E. Smith, Alba, Texas; Mrs. C. Z. Beckham, Stratford, Ok.; and S. E. Smith, Arbala, Texas. Their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary was celebrated Jan. 10, 1917, at Alba.
Mr. Smith was a Confederate soldier, serving the second year of the war with the Fifty-Eighty Alabama Infantry. He was captured July 1, 1863, and was held in prison twenty-three months and fifteen days at Fort Delaware, in the State of that name.
This couple came to Texas in the fall of 1869 and located near old Cornersville, Hopkins County. There they resided twenty years, removing from there to Tarrant, Hopkins County. After living there twenty years they moved to Wood County, in 1909.
Mr. Smith is a Jeffersonian Democrat and a reconstructed rebel. He is a farmer and has followed the plow over seventy years. [Newspaper clipping, perhaps from Alba publication, date unknown]
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CELEBRATES 85TH BIRTHDAY
By E. M. Smith, Stratfore, Ok.
I wish, through the Farm News, to greet on this, the eighty-fifth anniversary of my birth, all of my good old friends who may be readers of the paper. I wish for all of them prosperity and happiness through life, and in the end an eternal home in heaven.
I was born in Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. 17, 1837. In 1840 my father, Enoch Smith, moved to Calhoun County, Ala., and located near Jacksonville, where I was reared in poverty and almost in obsurity, not having the advantage of an education. Here I grew to manhood. I was married to Miss H. S. Nesmith Jan. 10, 1861. In 1862 I was called upon to volunteer and take up arms in defense of my country, which call I obeyed at once. I enlisted in Captain S. D. McClellan's company, Ninth Alabama Volunteers, on Feb. 11, 1862. I served until July 1, 1863. I was captured then and held as a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware. I was released June 15, 1865, returning home June 23 with naught but willing heart and hands to work.
To our union three sons and three daughters were born. The sons were all too old for the late war, their ages ranging from 44 to 54 years. The two younger sons died since the war closed. The young man in the photo is my grandson. He went overseas and was trice wounded. He belonged to a company of seventy-two trained musicians, all returning home except one. Roy O. Beckham is 28 years old and resides at Stratford, Ok.
I moved to Texas in 1869 and settled in Hopkins County, fifty-two years ago. I am a Jeffersonian Democrat and never scratched a ticket. AM a reconstruceted rebel, farmer and have followed the plow on injunction of the master for seventy-five years. My off-spring number 68.
I am sending a picture of four generations, myself, 85; my daughter, Mrs. R. L. Beckham, 50; my grandson, Roy Beckham, 28, and my great-grandson, Lee Roy Beckham, 4. [Elias M. Smith, 1922, clipping from Farm News - 1922 - Farm News]
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From Sul Springs, Texas, Elias M. Smith wrote to his sister's mother-in-law (age 77) on May 31, 1892: "Mrs. Aletha Cane, Big Valley, Texas
Respected Madam--Mother and Sister in Christ, It affords me untold pleasure to read But a few lines from an old friend from whome I have long since learned to love, and as an appreciation of your kind letter I Seat myself to try to respond to Same, you Said you gladly received my Kind words and that you had not forgotten us and that you was Glad that Tea was getting better her health is still improving and I think She will finely recover. But it will take time. you said you was very feeble and had heart discase. One of the inspired appostles Said that these light Afflictions which are But for a moment Shall work out for us a fare more and Exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory Beyond this vale of tears. Earth has no Sorrows that Heven cannt heal. The Christians hope is a Blessed hope. I often wonder why there is so much affliction in the world. But God works in misterious ways his wonders to perform So we conclude it will take all the afflictions and troubles of this life to ripen us for the life that is to come, in one of the Ancient Battles we read that a connon Ball Struck a fort and defaced the Buty of it and tore up the Earth and from that ugly casm Sprand up a fountain of never failing water. the more you bruse the Rose the Sweeter the perfume--to the Christian Death it is Said is only a Dream and if so how peaceful the Slumbers how pleasant the wakening But to the ungodly death will be a dreadful reality This is a sad thought and one upon which we do not like to think about or talk about...
When I take in all my surroundings I can But Exclame as did David that Surely goodness and mercy has followed me all the days of my life and then Exclame What Shall I render unto the Lord for all his Benefits unto me. We Close Praying that God may add his Blessings to us all and that the remnant of our days may be spent to his Prase.
Yours in love E. M. Smith
To J. A. Godwin, [his brother-in-law and Aletha's son, at the same time he writes of his farm.] "We are having rain in abundance.... It has been too wet and cold for cotton--corn and oats are very promising. I commenced cutting wheat yesterday... My reaper works fine... I can plow 12 or 14 acres a day and soon run over my crops I expect to cut wheat and oats for the Public. we have a good garden plenty of chickens milk and butter in abundance.
Yours Truly"
Comments below shared courtesy of Peggy Smith Wolfe #47006885:
According to family member W. G White, December 1, 2005: E. M. Smith enlisted February 11, 1862 in S. D. McClellan's Co. 9th Alabama Volunteers, 50th Alabama Infantry. He was captured July 1, 1863 and held prisoner at Ft. Delaware until released June 15, 1865.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Smith, Alba, Texas
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Smith were both born and raised and married near Jacksonville, Ala. Mr. Smith was born Oct. 17, 1837, and Mrs. Smith Oct 28 of the same year. Mrs. Smith was Miss H. S. Smith before her marriage. They were married Jan. 10, 1861. They have five children living, three boys and two girls, all married; twenty-two grandchildren and thirty- six great-grandchildren. The children are: Mrs. M. J. White, Alba, Texas; J. E. Smith, Rising Star, Texas; W. E. Smith, Alba, Texas; Mrs. C. Z. Beckham, Stratford, Ok.; and S. E. Smith, Arbala, Texas. Their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary was celebrated Jan. 10, 1917, at Alba.
Mr. Smith was a Confederate soldier, serving the second year of the war with the Fifty-Eighty Alabama Infantry. He was captured July 1, 1863, and was held in prison twenty-three months and fifteen days at Fort Delaware, in the State of that name.
This couple came to Texas in the fall of 1869 and located near old Cornersville, Hopkins County. There they resided twenty years, removing from there to Tarrant, Hopkins County. After living there twenty years they moved to Wood County, in 1909.
Mr. Smith is a Jeffersonian Democrat and a reconstructed rebel. He is a farmer and has followed the plow over seventy years. [Newspaper clipping, perhaps from Alba publication, date unknown]
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CELEBRATES 85TH BIRTHDAY
By E. M. Smith, Stratfore, Ok.
I wish, through the Farm News, to greet on this, the eighty-fifth anniversary of my birth, all of my good old friends who may be readers of the paper. I wish for all of them prosperity and happiness through life, and in the end an eternal home in heaven.
I was born in Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. 17, 1837. In 1840 my father, Enoch Smith, moved to Calhoun County, Ala., and located near Jacksonville, where I was reared in poverty and almost in obsurity, not having the advantage of an education. Here I grew to manhood. I was married to Miss H. S. Nesmith Jan. 10, 1861. In 1862 I was called upon to volunteer and take up arms in defense of my country, which call I obeyed at once. I enlisted in Captain S. D. McClellan's company, Ninth Alabama Volunteers, on Feb. 11, 1862. I served until July 1, 1863. I was captured then and held as a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware. I was released June 15, 1865, returning home June 23 with naught but willing heart and hands to work.
To our union three sons and three daughters were born. The sons were all too old for the late war, their ages ranging from 44 to 54 years. The two younger sons died since the war closed. The young man in the photo is my grandson. He went overseas and was trice wounded. He belonged to a company of seventy-two trained musicians, all returning home except one. Roy O. Beckham is 28 years old and resides at Stratford, Ok.
I moved to Texas in 1869 and settled in Hopkins County, fifty-two years ago. I am a Jeffersonian Democrat and never scratched a ticket. AM a reconstruceted rebel, farmer and have followed the plow on injunction of the master for seventy-five years. My off-spring number 68.
I am sending a picture of four generations, myself, 85; my daughter, Mrs. R. L. Beckham, 50; my grandson, Roy Beckham, 28, and my great-grandson, Lee Roy Beckham, 4. [Elias M. Smith, 1922, clipping from Farm News - 1922 - Farm News]
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From Sul Springs, Texas, Elias M. Smith wrote to his sister's mother-in-law (age 77) on May 31, 1892: "Mrs. Aletha Cane, Big Valley, Texas
Respected Madam--Mother and Sister in Christ, It affords me untold pleasure to read But a few lines from an old friend from whome I have long since learned to love, and as an appreciation of your kind letter I Seat myself to try to respond to Same, you Said you gladly received my Kind words and that you had not forgotten us and that you was Glad that Tea was getting better her health is still improving and I think She will finely recover. But it will take time. you said you was very feeble and had heart discase. One of the inspired appostles Said that these light Afflictions which are But for a moment Shall work out for us a fare more and Exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory Beyond this vale of tears. Earth has no Sorrows that Heven cannt heal. The Christians hope is a Blessed hope. I often wonder why there is so much affliction in the world. But God works in misterious ways his wonders to perform So we conclude it will take all the afflictions and troubles of this life to ripen us for the life that is to come, in one of the Ancient Battles we read that a connon Ball Struck a fort and defaced the Buty of it and tore up the Earth and from that ugly casm Sprand up a fountain of never failing water. the more you bruse the Rose the Sweeter the perfume--to the Christian Death it is Said is only a Dream and if so how peaceful the Slumbers how pleasant the wakening But to the ungodly death will be a dreadful reality This is a sad thought and one upon which we do not like to think about or talk about...
When I take in all my surroundings I can But Exclame as did David that Surely goodness and mercy has followed me all the days of my life and then Exclame What Shall I render unto the Lord for all his Benefits unto me. We Close Praying that God may add his Blessings to us all and that the remnant of our days may be spent to his Prase.
Yours in love E. M. Smith
To J. A. Godwin, [his brother-in-law and Aletha's son, at the same time he writes of his farm.] "We are having rain in abundance.... It has been too wet and cold for cotton--corn and oats are very promising. I commenced cutting wheat yesterday... My reaper works fine... I can plow 12 or 14 acres a day and soon run over my crops I expect to cut wheat and oats for the Public. we have a good garden plenty of chickens milk and butter in abundance.
Yours Truly"
According to family member W. G White, December 1, 2005: E. M. Smith enlisted February 11, 1862 in S. D. McClellan's Co. 9th Alabama Volunteers, 50th Alabama Infantry. He was captured July 1, 1863 and held prisoner at Ft. Delaware until released June 15, 1865.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Smith, Alba, Texas
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Smith were both born and raised and married near Jacksonville, Ala. Mr. Smith was born Oct. 17, 1837, and Mrs. Smith Oct 28 of the same year. Mrs. Smith was Miss H. S. Smith before her marriage. They were married Jan. 10, 1861. They have five children living, three boys and two girls, all married; twenty-two grandchildren and thirty- six great-grandchildren. The children are: Mrs. M. J. White, Alba, Texas; J. E. Smith, Rising Star, Texas; W. E. Smith, Alba, Texas; Mrs. C. Z. Beckham, Stratford, Ok.; and S. E. Smith, Arbala, Texas. Their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary was celebrated Jan. 10, 1917, at Alba.
Mr. Smith was a Confederate soldier, serving the second year of the war with the Fifty-Eighty Alabama Infantry. He was captured July 1, 1863, and was held in prison twenty-three months and fifteen days at Fort Delaware, in the State of that name.
This couple came to Texas in the fall of 1869 and located near old Cornersville, Hopkins County. There they resided twenty years, removing from there to Tarrant, Hopkins County. After living there twenty years they moved to Wood County, in 1909.
Mr. Smith is a Jeffersonian Democrat and a reconstructed rebel. He is a farmer and has followed the plow over seventy years. [Newspaper clipping, perhaps from Alba publication, date unknown]
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CELEBRATES 85TH BIRTHDAY
By E. M. Smith, Stratfore, Ok.
I wish, through the Farm News, to greet on this, the eighty-fifth anniversary of my birth, all of my good old friends who may be readers of the paper. I wish for all of them prosperity and happiness through life, and in the end an eternal home in heaven.
I was born in Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. 17, 1837. In 1840 my father, Enoch Smith, moved to Calhoun County, Ala., and located near Jacksonville, where I was reared in poverty and almost in obsurity, not having the advantage of an education. Here I grew to manhood. I was married to Miss H. S. Nesmith Jan. 10, 1861. In 1862 I was called upon to volunteer and take up arms in defense of my country, which call I obeyed at once. I enlisted in Captain S. D. McClellan's company, Ninth Alabama Volunteers, on Feb. 11, 1862. I served until July 1, 1863. I was captured then and held as a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware. I was released June 15, 1865, returning home June 23 with naught but willing heart and hands to work.
To our union three sons and three daughters were born. The sons were all too old for the late war, their ages ranging from 44 to 54 years. The two younger sons died since the war closed. The young man in the photo is my grandson. He went overseas and was trice wounded. He belonged to a company of seventy-two trained musicians, all returning home except one. Roy O. Beckham is 28 years old and resides at Stratford, Ok.
I moved to Texas in 1869 and settled in Hopkins County, fifty-two years ago. I am a Jeffersonian Democrat and never scratched a ticket. AM a reconstruceted rebel, farmer and have followed the plow on injunction of the master for seventy-five years. My off-spring number 68.
I am sending a picture of four generations, myself, 85; my daughter, Mrs. R. L. Beckham, 50; my grandson, Roy Beckham, 28, and my great-grandson, Lee Roy Beckham, 4. [Elias M. Smith, 1922, clipping from Farm News - 1922 - Farm News]
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From Sul Springs, Texas, Elias M. Smith wrote to his sister's mother-in-law (age 77) on May 31, 1892: "Mrs. Aletha Cane, Big Valley, Texas
Respected Madam--Mother and Sister in Christ, It affords me untold pleasure to read But a few lines from an old friend from whome I have long since learned to love, and as an appreciation of your kind letter I Seat myself to try to respond to Same, you Said you gladly received my Kind words and that you had not forgotten us and that you was Glad that Tea was getting better her health is still improving and I think She will finely recover. But it will take time. you said you was very feeble and had heart discase. One of the inspired appostles Said that these light Afflictions which are But for a moment Shall work out for us a fare more and Exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory Beyond this vale of tears. Earth has no Sorrows that Heven cannt heal. The Christians hope is a Blessed hope. I often wonder why there is so much affliction in the world. But God works in misterious ways his wonders to perform So we conclude it will take all the afflictions and troubles of this life to ripen us for the life that is to come, in one of the Ancient Battles we read that a connon Ball Struck a fort and defaced the Buty of it and tore up the Earth and from that ugly casm Sprand up a fountain of never failing water. the more you bruse the Rose the Sweeter the perfume--to the Christian Death it is Said is only a Dream and if so how peaceful the Slumbers how pleasant the wakening But to the ungodly death will be a dreadful reality This is a sad thought and one upon which we do not like to think about or talk about...
When I take in all my surroundings I can But Exclame as did David that Surely goodness and mercy has followed me all the days of my life and then Exclame What Shall I render unto the Lord for all his Benefits unto me. We Close Praying that God may add his Blessings to us all and that the remnant of our days may be spent to his Prase.
Yours in love E. M. Smith
To J. A. Godwin, [his brother-in-law and Aletha's son, at the same time he writes of his farm.] "We are having rain in abundance.... It has been too wet and cold for cotton--corn and oats are very promising. I commenced cutting wheat yesterday... My reaper works fine... I can plow 12 or 14 acres a day and soon run over my crops I expect to cut wheat and oats for the Public. we have a good garden plenty of chickens milk and butter in abundance.
Yours Truly"
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