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Note: his father's family to McNary county, Tenn. where he was principally raised. His grandfather was Wm. Smith, was a Revolutionary soldier, enlisting from NC. His father was a prominent school teacher in Tenn. where L.W. Smith was educated, and afterwards graduated in medicine, standing high in his profession during his life. He practiced medicine in Alabama for a number of years, during which he married Miss Nancy Ann Williams, one of the daughters of Col. Thomas Williams, a prominenet planter of Tuscaloosa and Pickens county, Alabama. After his marriage, he returned to Tenn. and was a noted physician, merchant and farmer up to coming to Texas, in 1855, locating in the Bascom neighborhood in Smith County, where he was killed by being thrown from a mule, while returning from a visit to a patient in 1864. Dr. Smith raised four children to be grown and gave them the advantages of the best schools of the country.
Dr. and Mrs. Smith raised the following children: Thomas P., Samuel P., Mary, Zelda, and Martha Joan.
Note: Father was Dr. L.W. Smith born in Rockingham county, NC in 1822, and moved with
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