LOCAL
NOTES:
SMITH County Poor House from
The History of Smith County Tennessee
(Dallas, Texas: Curtis Media Corporation, 1987) -- an excerpt
posted on their GenWeb site.
SMITH COUNTY
Superintendent of the County Poor
-- Biographical Sketch
from 1866 through (at least) 1887
from:
Goodspeed, History of Tennessee- Sumner, Smith, Macon and
Trousdale Counties
(1887; reprint, Easley,
S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1979)
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| CEMETERIES:
Notes about the SMITH County Poor House
Cemetery:
Sue W. Maggart's article, in the Smith
Co., TN History, mentions "A burying ground for the inmates was
located near the farm at Monoville on a hill behind the old
schoolhouse." This is in reference to the Key Hollow poor farm
prior to 1871. Do you know anything about this cemetery? Do you know if
there was a cemetery for the later location, ". . . two and one
half miles west of Carthage on what came to be known as the County
House Road."?
posted to The TNSMITH e-mail list 8/22/01 by Joy King |
"Fred Key, brother to the late
county historian Carmack Key, pointed out to me the area behind the
Monoville school where there was a cemetery for the poorhouse but there
are no graves visible there today. The stream that comes out of the Key
Hollow is called Poorhouse branch. At the other location 2 1/2 miles
west of Carthage - I can vaguely remember the big brick county house
before it burned. I do not know of any cemetery there but quite
possibily may have been one. The area is developed with several houses
now."
response posted to The TNSMITH e-mail list by
John C. Waggoner Jr. |
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