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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Alice Hibernia SMITHSON: Birth: 4 DEC 1866 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Death: 29 MAR 1950 in Lawrence County, Tennessee

  2. John Allison SMITHSON: Birth: 30 JUN 1869 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Death: 16 JAN 1948 in Lawrence County, Tennessee

  3. Evalena Addie Melinda SMITHSON: Birth: 24 OCT 1871 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Death: 6 NOV 1960 in Colbert County, Alabama

  4. Josephine Estell SMITHSON: Birth: 13 JUN 1875 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Death: 25 DEC 1961 in Morgan County, Alabama

  5. Edna Mae SMITHSON: Birth: 10 JUL 1879 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Death: 7 JAN 1958 in Lawrence County, Tennessee

  6. Richard Mabry SMITHSON: Birth: 6 OCT 1882 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Death: 27 AUG 1944 in Lawrence County, Tennessee

  7. Oce Eugene SMITHSON: Birth: 23 APR 1885 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Death: 14 JAN 1944 in Lawrence County, Tennessee

  8. Maggie Leona SMITHSON: Birth: 28 MAR 1888 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Death: 27 JUL 1967 in Lawrence County, Tennessee


Sources
1. Title:   Tombstone.
2. Title:   Personal knowledge of family members.
Page:   This writer has many times visited his grave.
3. Title:   Lawrence Co. TN marriage records.

Notes
a. Continued:   When this writer was a child, she found a trunk belonging to Evalena Smithson LOCKETT in the attic. Despite the fact that she knew she should not open it, of course she did. It contained William LOCKETT, Jr.'s enlistment papers (Lord, how I wish we had them now!) and some old letters from Grandpa "H" to his daughter chastising her for marrying "the son of a Yankee scalawag and bringing shame on the community and the Smithson name. He did not speak to her again until she married James POWELL several years after Walter LOCKETT's death. He was a charter member of the Ku Klux Klan, but family says he got out of it after Gen. Forrest tried to disband it because he thought it had become excessively violent. Mama WRIGHT (Emma) told me about passing his blacksmith shop when she and Aunt Clara were walking to school and she did not even know he was her grandfather. His funeral is one of my earliest memories. His coffin was on sawhorses in the living room. The weather was cold and it was raining. The smoke kept coming back into the house from the chimney. All the women were wearing black taffeta and the smell of face powder was almost overwhelming to me. I can't stand it till this day. He was a huge man, well over six feet tall and muscular. Though I doubt that he intended to, he intimidated all the children in the family.
b. Continued:   He is under a CSA tombstone.


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