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Smith was one of those eight store owners having purchased
a lot, building and merchandise on Front Street from R.P. Grayson
for $6,500 in March of 1861. He also operated a bar or saloon, and
a furniture store in Orange by 1884 and a furniture store in Lake
Charles, La. as well .-at the time of his death in 1887.
Born in 1835 in Bedford, N.Y. to Sally Ann and Samuel Starr
Smith, he arrived in the port of New Orleans in 1860 enroute to
Texas. He was listed as a carpenter, living in a boarding house
in Carthage in the1860 Panola County census.
By early 1861 he was in Orange where he married Marion
Celeste Davis in August. Their first child, J. Walter, was born
1862, died 1863. In 1864, Agnes Virginia was born. She married
Walter Wingate , an attorney and county official.
Three other children were born of this marriage, Arthur
Davis, who was killed in a train accident; Eula; Raymond and
Jessie Celeste, before Marion's death in 1878.
Smith later married Julia Traynham of Chappell Hill and
their children were Chesley and Robert H., Jr.
Appointed Orange County clerk by the Provost Governor of
Texas in January 1866, Smith held the post, being subsequently
elected, for many years. He was also county probate clerk and
district clerk for some of those years.
He died in 1887 and is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery
in Orange.
taken from a 1907 edition of the local paper:
The engine and boilers for the new factory of the Orange
Box and Crate Manufacturing Company were received Friday.
Difficulty in getting the machinery shipped has retarded
progress at the company in getting their factory ready for
business.
The eastbound Sunset Limited due at Orange at 9:45 this
morning was laid up at Echo yesterday on account of some of
the piling on the trestle east of the Sabine River sinking
into the marsh.
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