DILLION Family Genealogy-History
(Updated April 18, 2024)
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Barren County.
JAMES T. SMITH was born in Tracy Precinct, September 18, 1835, and is the eighth of five sons and five daughters born to James D. and Rebecca (Higdon) Smith. James D. was born in North Carolina and reared in Kentucky; he was a farmer, speculator and slave trader, and a soldier in the war of 1812. He died in 1870, aged about seventy-seven years. His father, Isaac Smith, was of Dutch descent; immigrated from North Carolina about 1810, and settled in Barren County, Ky. James T. was reared on the farm, and remained with his parents until arriving at maturity, when he commenced for He himself on a farm of 365 acres, given him by his father, who, although he started life poor, had acquired a handsome fortune, and owned 1,500 acres of fine lands in Barren County. At the breaking out of the war, believing it to be his duty to go with his county, James T. enlisted in September, 1861, in the company of Capt. Isaac Smith, of the Sixth Kentucky Confederate Regiment under Col. Lewis. In the battle of Shiloh he was wounded in the back by a shell which disabled him from further service, and in the summer of 1862 he was discharged. He returned home, and in the fall of that year went to California; one year later to Idaho, where for two years he was engaged in mining. In November, 1865, he returned home, and has since been engaged in farming, and also deals considerably in shorthorn cattle. February 15, 1872, he married Alice Renfro, of Barren County, Ky., a daughter of S. M. and Sarah (Peden) Renfro, natives, respectively, of Virginia and Kentucky. S. M. Renfro was a farmer and is now a merchant. Mrs. Smith died in May, 1882, a member of the Reformed Church, and the mother of Two Sons: Early D. and Wesley B. Mr. Smith has the old homestead where he was born and reared, and which consists of 400 acres, 250 of which are cleared and improved, with a fine residence and orchard. He is a member of the F. & A. M. Before the war he was a Whig, but is now a Democrat.
Smith Higdon Lewis Peden Renfro
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