Oral History Interview with Ikard Smith, January 7, 1983 Page: 2
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we cannot do that, but that is about as far as I can go
back with both sets of my grandparents. It is a little
bit unusual in the fact that both of my grandfathers
fought in the Civil War. My grandfather Smith was born
in 1843 and was captured by Grant at Fort Donaldson.
Jenkins: Do you remember where he was born?
Smith: No, I really don't, but in Tennessee.
Jenkins: Close enough.
Smith: That's right. And then he was captured there in Fort
Donaldson. I have heard the story said, that is on the
Tennessee River, that the flood came and the river went up
over the stockade, and my grandfather swam out, returned
back to the Southern side of the Confederacy and married my
grandmother. My father then was not born until 1881. He
was the seventh child of that family. There were six boys
and two girls in my father's family. He therefore was
raised in Dixon County, Tennessee. Dixon, Tennessee, was
where he was raised.
Jenkins: In a town, then.
Smith: In a small town. Really it should be in Dixon County on the
farm. On the farm because they had a little hillside farm
there. I personally never saw my grandfather. He died
around 1920. My grandmother lived until about 1935, and I
saw her on two different occasions in Dixon, Tennessee.
Jenkins: How big was the community?
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Jenkins, Floyd & Smith, Ikard. Oral History Interview with Ikard Smith, January 7, 1983, book, January 7, 1983; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1857668/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed May 31, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.