Florida Family Groupsheet for Thomas Elridge SMITH Family *********************************************** Copyright © by the submitter All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html *********************************************** SUBMITTED BY: George V Hilburn e-mail and/or snail mail: ======================================== Name: Thomas Elridge Smith ---------------------------------------- Birth: 29 Mar 1869 Death: 23 Oct 1944 Father: Thomas Green Smith (1847-1885) Mother: Pearcy Ann Braswell (1844-1919) Marriage: 25 May 1889 ---------------------------------------- Spouse: Annie Eliza Sumner ---------------------------------------- Birth: 8 Mar 1872 Death: 17 Oct 1949 Father: Benjamin Phillips Sumner (1847-1881) Mother: Jane Ellen (Jency) Bridges (1850-1946) ---------------------------------------- Children: ---------------------------------------- 1 F: Jennie Mae Smith Birth: 12 Jul 1890 Washington, Georgia Death: 4 Sep 1956 buried Carter's Chapel Spouse: Luman Holmes Marriage: Jul 1908 Laurens County, GA Spouse: Henry Ira Hilbun Marriage: 10 Jul 1921 ---------------------------------------- 2 F: Nora Rebecca Smith Birth: 30 Jun 1892 Death: 1892 ---------------------------------------- 3 F: Laura Lee Smith Birth: 19 Jan 1894 Death: 20 Mar 1988 Oldsmar, FL Spouse: William Odum ---------------------------------------- 4 M: Robert E Smith Birth: 23 Apr 1895 Death: 1895 ---------------------------------------- 5 M: Thomas Cecil Smith Birth: 15 Jul 1896 Death: 15 Feb 1967 Spouse: Gladys Bush ---------------------------------------- 6 M: Lonnie Darrell Smith Birth: 5 May 1898 Spouse: Eliza Anderson ---------------------------------------- 7 F: Vivian Smith Birth: 18 Aug 1899 Death: 1901 ---------------------------------------- 8 M: Gainor Smith Birth: 1 Mar 1901 Death: 1901 ---------------------------------------- 9 M: Leo Gordon Smith Birth: 23 Sep 1902 Death: 9 Feb 1993 Spouse: Alice Cox Marriage: 25 Nov 1923 Stuckey, Wheeler, GA ---------------------------------------- 10 F: Annie Ruth Smith Birth: 22 Nov 1907 Spouse: Joe Smith Spouse: Rufus Leach ---------------------------------------- 11 F: Rubye Dell Smith Birth: 9 Oct 1909 Death: 7 Oct 1997 Spouse: M.L. Reed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes for Thomas Elridge Smith Thomas Elridge Smith was said to have moved from Washington County, Georgia to Laurens County, Georgia; then to Wheeler County, Georgia; then to Savannah, Georgia; then back to Laurens County, Georgia, where they moved in with Henry Hilbun & Jennie Smith Hilbun in 1937. A photo of Thomas Earl Hilburn & Darrell Smith, son of Lonnie Smith, taken at their 50th wedding aniversary in poss of George Hilburn (identified by Ruth Hilbun, sister of Thomas Hilburn). RESIDENCE-BIRTH: 1900 GA Census Soundex; 1900; Vol. 42, E.D. 54 sheet 8, Line 21; Family History Center, San Diego CA; Film 1242878; NOTE: living in Johnson County. Tom had a beautiful singing voice and was a well know singing school teacher among the local churches---from the book, Colby Smith and His Descendants. ===================================================