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"Not long after his death, I crossed what looked like the Mississippi River. Actually it was the Tombigbee. The boatman was a crazy man and I had to stand by him in the boat. I thought I would die from fright before I got across. Fifty years later I crossed the river at the same place and it had diminished in width to half its former width.
By 1861 the War was on. All the young men volunteered and formed a company they called the Red Rovers. They drilled three months where the high school is under the military training of Major Barr.
I have no idea when the Bowds, Dalrymples, Dansbys, Cheeks, Cowleys, and Terrels came to Smithville. They held services under the trees until they could build the old Baptist church that was torn down not so long ago and replaced by the fine brick building. The Rev Seaward, the pastor for many years, built the home where Mrs Norman Lyly now lives. The Ollie Ausborn home was built by Professor Dansby. The old Lee Sullivan home was built by the Inmans. Dr Tubb's old house was built by a Mr Thompson. The old Jerry Moore home was built by Dr Jim Elliot. It was the town tavern. The Hyde Livery Stable was where Bud Young lives. One of the Elliot boys took some money from Hyde's coat that was hanging in the stable. This started war between the two families. The Elliotts and brother in law, Ben Mosley, barricaded themselves upstairs and fired on Hyde as he walked up the street. He went back, got his gun and returned their shots till he fell dead. It cost the Elliotts nearly all they had to save their necks. Years after the Hyde killing Little Jim Elliott was home on furlough from the army. There was to be a big party for the visiting soldiers. Little Jim as he was called spent the evening in the Jess Leech home and he and young Willie Stegall practiced all evening. They were both fine violinists, and were to play for the party. That night a strange coincidence, the last piece they played was "The Vacant Chair". He came back to town, met this brother in law of Hydes, a few words were passed and Looney shot him down. My mother sat up there that night and said no one ever saw such grief. It nearly killed his mother and sisters. She said all seemed quiet outside, but next morning Looney's body was hanging to a limb on a big tree at the front corner of Aden Moore's yard.
The old Dobbs home was built by Joe Brown, Smithville's first banker, who absconded with the money. I have no history on Mr Morgan's home and don't know who settled the Gene Young place. In my childhood an old black woman, Aunt Betty Black, owned this. She was as black as a crow and rode a tiny white mule. Away before the War, a Mrs Maupin and her brother in law, Ed Maupin, lived at the McKinney place and taught school in a house just across the street. Here is where lived the music teacher who died and is buried in the northwest part of Smithville cemetary. Years afterwards the man she was engaged to, came down from Massachusetts and placed a tomb at her grave. Her name was Fanny Van Cleave. I think her tomb gives the date of her death. From the time the institute was sold till 75 years ago Smithville had no school building, when the school was built where Mrs Alinder's home is. The schools were taught in vacant dwellings. Miss Docia Vaughn was burned to death in school in the old Lee Sullivan house. There was a transient man that taught little bit about over the county. He was a Frenchman and could not speak English plain. The children tried to pronounce words like he did. He would fly into a temper and threaten to break a stick over their backs. He was found dead by the road side at Gravelee Springs. His name was McGrat.
The Murray Addington Home once belonged to the Mosley's, and the big old white house near the Addington barn. The Stalnaker and Annice Armstrong farm was owned by the Dunlaps. The old house Terrell Cox tore away was the McCrimman place. The old Jim Davis home was built by the Dalrymples. The Everett Davis place is the old Walls place. my home was once owned by an old Negro woman, Aunt Sara Little. Not many years ago the Rev Matt Allen built the home I am living in. The old house in the grove owned by Dr Tubb was buil by a wealthy old bachelor, Conner Dowd, a brother of Mrs Dalrymple and Mrs McCrimman. All I know of Miss Luna Addington's home is that Dr Crump lived and died there.
I shall give the names of all the doctors that have lived here in my lifetime: Dr Elliot, Dr Gardner, Dr Roberson, Dr Gregory, Dr Crump, Dr Dobbs, Dr Spratt, Dr Wren, Dr Green, Dr Harman, Dr Cowden, Dr Summerford, Dr P Burdine Sr, Dr Bean, Dr Tubb, Dr Aycock, Dr Brack Burdine, Dr Condrey and Dr Roebuck. Only this number only Dr Tubb, Dr Aycock, and Dr Bean are now living.
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