Person:William Smith (852)

By 1900 William has left the family home and is enumerated as a boarder, age 26, born Feb 1874, single, living in the home of Elijah W. Moon, in Buncombe Twp., Walton Co., Georgia. But by 1910 he has been married 9 years and is back in Gwinnett County.

http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=7884&path=Georgia.Gwinnett.Lawrenceville.0058.39&sid=&gskw=William+P+Smith&cr=1 1910 Census Dist 0058, Lawrenceville, Gwinnett Co., Georgia Smith, William T. Head M W 36 M2 9yrs GA GA GA Smith, Lavinia F. wife F W 36 M1 9yrs 3ch/3 lvg GA GA GA Smith, Elena son M W 8 single GA GA GA (image says Glenn, a son!) Smith, Louella dau F W 6 single GA GA GA Smith, William P. son M W 1 single GA GA GA (image says William T.!) Harris, Mary aunt F W 77 Wd 0ch/0 lvg GA GA GA Gigger, Charles nephew M W 29 single GA GA GA (image says age 20!) (Mary Jackson Harris is the older sister of William's mother.)

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Name: William Thomas Smith County: Gwinnett State: Georgia Birth Date: 12 Feb 1874 Race: White Nearest Relative: Mrs. Fannie Smith, #2, Lawrenceville, Gwinnett, GA Date of Registration 12 Sep 1918 FHL Roll Number: 1557071

There is conflicting information about William's death. The Georgia Death Index at ancestry.com (below) has record of a William T. Smith dying in Dec 1945, age 70 years old which would calculate to be correct for this William. But there is a marker photo at Find-a-Grave which gives alternate information: Jan 1, 1942. And a relative has written to say he died in one year and was buried in the next year: 1941/1942.

Name: William T Smith Death Date: 08 Dec 1945 County of Death: Tift Gender: M Race: W Age: 70 years (estimated birth: 1875) Certificate: 26228 There is NO SSDI for this person, nor for a William b 1874 who died in 1941 or 1942. But I have now found a second Thomas Smith who married Althera Johnson on the 1900 census. This Thomas Smith was born Dec 1874. Perhaps he is the person in the Georgia Death Index. Only an examination of the death certificate will settle this. Until then, this record will use the information from the gravemarker, especially since a relative has written that this is correct. Also William T. and L. Fanny Smith share this gravemarker.

1. ↑ United States. Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. (Washington, D.C.: National Archives Microfilm Publication M1509, 1987-1988).
2. ↑ Email from descendant, Maggie maggiejack add the at att add the dot net.
3. ↑ Find A Grave.

   Memorial #26462828.
   Shares a stone with L. Fannie Smith.

4. ↑ United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T9)
   Dist 125, Bay Creek, Gwinnett Co., Georgia.
5. ↑ United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T623).
6. ↑ United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T624).
7. ↑ United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T625).
8. ↑ United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T626).
9.   Website of Bill Couch: Edward Jackson www.couchgenweb.com/family/edjack.htm.
10.   United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T9)
    Bay Creek, Gwinnett, Georgia.
11.   United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T624)
    Lawrenceville, Gwinnett Co., Georgia.
12.   State of Georgia, and Ancestry.com. Georgia Deaths, 1919-98 . (Georgia, United States: Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records).