Category: Smith family history
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Smith family history: Part 9
L. Windsor Smith – GA to TN Part of the ‘Smith family history’ series After South Carolina seceded in December 1860, six more southern states followed suit by February 1861, including Georgia. On January 19, 1861 members of the Georgia Secession Convention voted, with 208 votes in favor of secession, and 89 opposed. On February…
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Smith family history: Part 8
L. Windsor Smith – Mid-1850s to 1860 Part of the ‘Smith family history’ series In the mid-1850s Atlanta was growing and so was the Smith family. Born over 12 years after Robert Windsor Smith, Leonard Windsor Smith was born May 12, 1853 in Atlanta. Throughout most of his life he is primarily referred to as…
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Smith family history: Part 7
L. Windsor Smith – Early 1850s Part of the ‘Smith family history’ series In the early 1850s Atlanta was growing rapidly, in no small part due to the railroads converging on the place. However, Atlanta was still notably smaller than Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, and still less than half the size of Macon. City 1850 U.S.…
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Smith family history: Part 6
L. Windsor Smith – Initial Atlanta real estate transactions Part of the ‘Smith family history’ series On 12/16/1848 Robert Windsor Smith’s father acquired 21 1/4 acres from Charner Humphries, the owner of the White Hall tavern. Here are images of the recording of the DeKalb County deed, and following I will include my attempt to…
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Smith family history: Part 5
L. Windsor Smith – “Virtually in the wilderness” Part of the ‘Smith family history’ series After the devastation of the 1846 “Great Havana Hurricane” and the loss of 1 year old second son Clark Smith it is not difficult to see why Robert’s father Larned wanted to make a change. That change would be yet…
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Smith family history: Part 4
L. Windsor Smith – Robert arrives and tragedy strikes Part of the ‘Smith family history’ series Evie Spencer Smith gave birth to Robert Windsor Smith in Key West, Florida on April 29th, 1841. Larned Windsor Smith was still serving in his position as a U.S. District Attorney for the southern district of Florida. He served…
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Smith family history: Part 3
L. Windsor Smith – NY to FL Part of the ‘Smith family history’ series Sometime in 1835 I believe that Robert’s father L. Windsor Smith left his home in Herkimer County, New York and went South until he could go no further, eventually settling in Key West. The Florida Keys had become part of the…
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Smith family history: Part 2
L. Windsor Smith – Life in Herkimer County, New York Part of the ‘Smith family history’ series Robert Windsor Smith’s father’s given name was Larned (a variant of Leonard) Windsor Smith. He seemed to more frequently go by L. Windsor Smith. Larned was born March 27th, 1802 in Fairfield, Herkimer County, New York. Interestingly, Larned…
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Smith family history: Part 1
Where are we and how did we get here? If you haven’t read my introduction yet, please head over there first: Introduction Part of the ‘Smith family history’ series In order to set the stage I think it’s important to start with an initial look at Robert Windsor Smith’s home in Kirkwood and how the…
Birds of Kirkwood 