{"id":970,"date":"2015-09-21T21:42:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T02:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=970"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:39","slug":"george-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/george-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GEORGE SMITH<\/strong> was born December 12, 1831, in Bedford County, Tenn., son of <strong>John E. and Nancy (Mayfield) Smith,<\/strong> natives of North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively.\u00a0 The father was born in 1801 or 1802 and died about 1840.\u00a0 He was a successful farmer.\u00a0 The mother was born about 1806.\u00a0 Our subject was the second of five children born to his parents.\u00a0 He was reared on the farm and remained there until he was eighteen years of age.\u00a0 He then attended school at Chapel Hill, Tenn., and continued there about fifteen months, after which he returned home and engaged in farming as well as in stock and Negro trading up to the time of the late war.\u00a0 He enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861 in Col. Starnes Cavalry Company B.\u00a0 He remained with this company about two years and was then transferred to the Forty-fourth Tennessee Infantry, Company G.\u00a0 He was wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro which disabled him from active service about fifteen months.\u00a0 He again returned to service and remained throughout the entire war.<\/p>\n<p>Previous to the war, in 1852, he was married to <strong>Martha Rainey<\/strong>, a native of this county, born August 29, 1832.\u00a0 This union has resulted in the birth of eight children:\u00a0<strong> Nancy A., Emmet, Andrew J., John M., Sallie C., Mattie G., Robert E.<\/strong> and <strong>Emma.<\/strong>\u00a0 Our subject has been quite successful and has accumulated the greater part of his property since the late war.\u00a0 He and wife are members in good standing in the Missionary Baptist Church.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGE SMITH was born December 12, 1831, in Bedford County, Tenn., son of John E. and Nancy (Mayfield) Smith, natives of North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively.\u00a0 The father was born in 1801 or 1802 and died about 1840.\u00a0 He was a successful farmer.\u00a0 The mother was born about 1806.\u00a0 Our subject was the second of &#8230; <a title=\"SMITH, George\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/george-smith\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about SMITH, George\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3235,3236,3239,3244,3238,3233,3234,3240,3242,3237,3243,3241],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-mayfield-nancy","tag-rainey-martha","tag-smith-andrew-j","tag-smith-emma","tag-smith-emmet","tag-smith-george","tag-smith-john-e","tag-smith-john-m","tag-smith-mattie-g","tag-smith-nancy-a","tag-smith-robert-e","tag-smith-sallie-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}