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Allen K SMITH

Smith on Hamill Road Hixson Cemetery
Hamilton County,
Tennessee

November 11, 1828 - August 25, 1858

Also living at Hixson were Allen K. Smith and Daniel C. Smith. They were apparently sons of Burrell Smith. They married daughters of Preston Gann. Allen K. Smith was born about 1828. He married Martha J. Gann, and they first lived with Christian Sniteman, who also married a Preston Gann daughter -Mary Ann. Allen K. had an estate of 392 acres. He and Martha J. Smith had James P., Louisa, Martha Jane and Mary E. who died as a young girl in the last year of the Civil War. Allen K. Smith died in the fall of 1858, and Preston Gann became the guardian for his children. After the fighting at Chickamauga, Union troops scouring the countryside for supplies came with wagons to the Smith place, where Martha J. Smith was living with her children. They helped themselves to ripe corn in the fields. They tore off fence rails and also dismantled a log cabin, log kitchen and stable for use in building winter quarters for the soldiers. Smith's widow afterward married George W. Clark.
The Smith Cemetery is nearby on Hamill Road. Among those buried there are Allen K. Smith, Daniel C. Smith, Daniel Boone Smith, Abraham R. Smith, Jackson Yarnell Smith, Sophronia Smith Gann and Cassandra Gann Smith.

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Contributed on 12/18/22

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Submitted: 12/18/22 • Approved: 12/18/22 • Last Updated: 12/22/22 • R247015-G0-S3

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