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Smith Family Cemetery:
Sacred to the Memory
of
MAJ. WILLIAM SMITH
Who departed this life
June 23, 1831
Aged 86 Yrs 9 Mos
And 3 Ds.
He emigrated from the state of
Pennsylvania with his Father when
a boy, and was one of the first
settlers of Spartanburg District
where he afterwards always resided.
He took an active part in stimulating
the people of this section of the country to resist
the oppressions of Great Britain;
And served himself as a Captain
during the war of the Revolution.
After the organization of the Government
he was appointed Judge of the County court
was afterwards elected to Congress from
Pinckney district and subsequently served for
near twenty years as Senator from
Spartanburg district in the state legislature.
It may emphatically said of him
that he was an Honest Man
and a Patriot.
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