Talbot COUNTY GA Charles Lee Smith Sr. Cemetery ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Volunteers http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/talbot/cemeteries/smith.txt CHARLES LEE SMITH, SR. CEMETERY LOCATION - From Talbotton,, GA go east on US Hwy 80 for 4.7 miles, turn left on Po Biddy Rd and go 4.3 miles, turn left on paved road and go 1.6 miles, turn right on dirt road and go 2.9 miles to cemetery on right of road about 250 yards following an old road. This cemetery has a rock wall around it and there are no markers. Names given to Morgan by Mrs. Courtney Lewis of Thomaston, GA. The original farm was owned by the Charles Lee Smith Sr. Laura and Virginia "Jennie" Smith were unmarried daughters of Charles Lee Smith, Sr. There is a least one marked grave and several other known altar-tombs. It is believed that family slaves were buried at the cemetery also. 1. Miss LAURA SMITH Birth: Circa 1844 Georgia, USA Death: Jul. 13, 1934 Talbot County Georgia, USA [] Laura Smith was born ca. 1844 in Georgia, the daughter of Charles Lee Smith, Sr. and Martha T. Glenn Smith. She joined the Collinsworth Methodist Church in 1863. According to family tradition, Laura Smith continued to live in the Charles Lee Smith, Sr. plantation house with her sister, Virginia "Jennie" Smith, after the deaths of their parents. Anthony George Smith, a relative, wrote in a 1978 letter that Aunt Jennie Smith and Aunt Laura Smith were buried in the Smith family cemetery near the plantation house. +++++++++++++++ From Georgia Deaths: Name: Laura Smith Event: Death Event Date: 13 Jul 1934 Event Place: Talbot, Georgia Certificate Number: 22244 2. Miss VIRGINIA "JENNIE" SMITH Birth: Circa 1839 Georgia, USA Death: unknown Georgia, USA [] Virginia "Jennie" Smith was born ca. 1839 in Georgia, the daughter of Charles Lee Smith, Sr. and Martha T. Glenn Smith. Virginia Smith joined the Collinsworth Methodist Church in September 1859. According to family tradition, Jennie Smith continued to live in the Charles Lee Smith, Sr. plantation house with her sister, Laura Smith, after the deaths of their parents. It is believed that she died between 1910 and 1920 in Georgia. Anthony George Smith, a relative, wrote in a 1978 letter that Aunt Jennie Smith and Aunt Laura Smith were buried in the Smith family cemetery near the plantation house. 3.ROBERT LEE SMITH Birth: Feb. 3, 1881 Georgia, USA Death: May 6, 1881 Georgia, USA [] Robert Lee Smith (February 3, 1881 - May 6, 1881) was a son of Simeon Glenn Smith and Eunice Tigner Smith. He was the grandson of Charles Lee Smith, Sr. and Martha T. Glenn Smith. A description of the Smith family cemetery and the information on Robert Lee Smith's grave marker were found on page 133 of A Rockaway in Talbot: Travels in an Old Georgia County, Volume II, by William H. Davidson. Researcher:"Sidney Smith, Jr" <sgsjr@sowega.net> Researcher: T. Brad Willis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007638 updated July 2012