Sterling Tried Smith - the son who joined the Confederate forces - was mustered in Co. H of the 26th Tennessee Infantry at Knoxville on Sept. 5, 1861. Later he was "with the regiment that escaped from Fort Donelson." He was with the army at Bowling Green, Ky., in 1862 when he had to go off duty due to illness.
Sterling T. Smith had studied medicine at the University of Nashville. When he was 17 he married Amy Lou Matthews, and they had five sons and eight daughters. The Smiths moved to Dunlap, Tenn., when it "consisted of nothing save a few houses, and the valley was a mere wilderness." It was said that "where Dr. Smith is not known in the Sequatchie Valley is an obscure place indeed, for he has traveled its length and breadth in the service of humanity." Dr. Smith was a Democrat, a Baptist and a Mason. When he died at Dunlap in 1916 at age 80, he had been a doctor in the Sequatchie Valley for 56 years.
Contributor: Gay Hobt Morton (47996589) •
Sterling T. Smith had studied medicine at the University of Nashville. When he was 17 he married Amy Lou Matthews, and they had five sons and eight daughters. The Smiths moved to Dunlap, Tenn., when it "consisted of nothing save a few houses, and the valley was a mere wilderness." It was said that "where Dr. Smith is not known in the Sequatchie Valley is an obscure place indeed, for he has traveled its length and breadth in the service of humanity." Dr. Smith was a Democrat, a Baptist and a Mason. When he died at Dunlap in 1916 at age 80, he had been a doctor in the Sequatchie Valley for 56 years.
Contributor: Gay Hobt Morton (47996589) •
Sterling Tried Smith - the son who joined the Confederate forces - was mustered in Co. H of the 26th Tennessee Infantry at Knoxville on Sept. 5, 1861. Later he was "with the regiment that escaped from Fort Donelson." He was with the army at Bowling Green, Ky., in 1862 when he had to go off duty due to illness.
Sterling T. Smith had studied medicine at the University of Nashville. When he was 17 he married Amy Lou Matthews, and they had five sons and eight daughters. The Smiths moved to Dunlap, Tenn., when it "consisted of nothing save a few houses, and the valley was a mere wilderness." It was said that "where Dr. Smith is not known in the Sequatchie Valley is an obscure place indeed, for he has traveled its length and breadth in the service of humanity." Dr. Smith was a Democrat, a Baptist and a Mason. When he died at Dunlap in 1916 at age 80, he had been a doctor in the Sequatchie Valley for 56 years.
Contributor: Gay Hobt Morton (47996589) •
Sterling T. Smith had studied medicine at the University of Nashville. When he was 17 he married Amy Lou Matthews, and they had five sons and eight daughters. The Smiths moved to Dunlap, Tenn., when it "consisted of nothing save a few houses, and the valley was a mere wilderness." It was said that "where Dr. Smith is not known in the Sequatchie Valley is an obscure place indeed, for he has traveled its length and breadth in the service of humanity." Dr. Smith was a Democrat, a Baptist and a Mason. When he died at Dunlap in 1916 at age 80, he had been a doctor in the Sequatchie Valley for 56 years.
Contributor: Gay Hobt Morton (47996589) •
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