Lincoln County TN Archives Biographies.....Smith, Richard 1827 - 
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SMITH, ARWOOD, FAULKNER



Richard SMITH, merchant and farmer of the Twenty-fifth District, was born

in Lincoln County in 1827, and is one of nine children born to Richard and

Elizabeth (ARWOOD) SMITH.   The father was born in North Carolina about

1779, received a very meager education, and was obliged to make his way in

life without the benefit of that blessing.  When twenty-one years of age he

was married, and followed the occupation of a farmer till his career ended

in 1852.  The mother was born in North Carolina about 1784, and died in

1850.  Our subject remained with his parents until he was twenty years of

age, and received his education in the common school.  February 25, 1847,

he was united in marriage to Eliza FAULKNER, a daughter of William and

Ellen FAULKNER.  Soon after his marriage our subject began farming as a

tenant, and this continued for two years.  He then entered the mercantile

business at what is now Smithland, and is still engaged in that occupation.

 In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, Forty-fourth Tennessee, and entered the

Army of the Cumberland as a drummer, where he remained about seven months,

after which he returned home, and resumed his business.  Although having

very little of this world's goods to start with, he is now in very

comfortable circumstances, and is the owner of about 550 acres of good

land.  He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Masonic

fraternity, also of the I. O. O. F.  He and Mrs. SMITH are members of the

Methodist Episcopal Church South.



Additional Comments:
From Goodspeed's "History of Tennessee"





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