Manning Smith

According to family tradition, in a family plot north of the main cemetery and east of the picnic shelter, in unmarked graves, are: Manning Smith; his daughter Beneta Smith McKendree, second wife of George G. McKendree; and two of his grandsons, brothers Walter and Oscar Smith, sons of Elijah Smith and Sarah Ann Howell Smith, said to have been killed in a railroad accident during boyhood.
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• Son of William Smith and Bineta Stephens Smith. • Indian Wars, Capt. John J. Johnson's Company, Florida Volunteers, 1838. • 2nd Lieutenant, 586th militia district, Ware Co., Georgia, 1837-1845. • Captain, 1224th militia district, Clinch Co., Georgia, 1861. • 3rd Lieutenant, Clinch Co. militia, 1864. • Justice of the Inferior Court, Ware Co., Georgia, 1845-1849. • Justice of the Inferior Court, Clinch Co., Georgia, 1850-1854, 1857-1861. • Representative to the Legislature, Clinch Co., Georgia, 1855-1856. • With F. J. Mills and J. H. Mattox, laid out public roads leading from Homerville, Georgia. • Cassia Lodge No. 224 F&AM, Homerville, Georgia, 1860. • Charter member and first Senior Warden, Fort Dade Lodge No. 48 F&AM (now Dade City Lodge No. 48 F&AM), Hernando (now Pasco) Co., Florida, 1871. • Per widow's pension application, died of fever at Fort Dade, Hernando (now Pasco) Co., Florida, August 1880.