Tag: Rich’s

• Smith family history: Part 20

  

  Gilded Age – 1877-1883 Part of the ‘Smith family history’ series Reconstruction had ended with the Compromise of 1877, and Georgia wasted little time in imposing Jim Crow laws like the 1877 statewide poll tax. The poll tax had existed in a previous form, but the 1877 poll tax required voters to also pay any…

  BirdsOfKirkwood

  September 7, 2023

  Smith family history

  54-56 Whitehall, Mary Cleveland Smith, Rich’s, Robert Windsor Smith, Smith family history, William McNaught