Individual Details

He was a farmer in Stanly County, NC. He was in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He enlisted as a private in the Co. A, 17th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. He was in the Battle of Gettysburg in July, 1863. One record says he was wounded in the head in that battle and implies that he died therefrom, and is buried at Gettysburg. However, the records of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va., show that he died while a prisoner of war at Point Lookout, Md., and was buried there, but later was removed to Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery. The latter is confirmed by the inscription on the monument to Confederate Soldiers and sailors.

Birth	1820	Montgomery County, NC
Marriage	1848	Stanly County, NC - Eliza Caroline EFIRD
Death	1863	Point Lookout, St. Mary's County, MD
Burial		Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery, Scotland, St. Mary's County, MD

Spouse	Eliza Caroline EFIRD (1827 - 1904)
Child	Sarah Ann Josephine SMITH (1850 - 1908)
Child	William Martin SMITH (1852 - 1935)
Child	Daniel Robert Alexander SMITH (1853 - 1930)
Child	Ephraim Erastus SMITH (1856 - )
Child	Mary Frances L. SMITH (1858 - 1940)
Child	Ida Von Borah SMITH (1861 - 1935)
Child	John Stanly SMITH Jr. ( - 1918)