Smith County, Tennessee

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Contents 1 Smith County 1.1 Timeline 1.2 Categories 1.3 Stickers 2 Geography 2.1 Maps 2.2 Adjacent Tennessee Counties 2.3 Communities 3 People of Smith County 4 Resources

Smith County

Smith County, Tennessee, was formed in 1799 from Sumner County. ^[1] It was named for Daniel Smith, a Revolutionary War veteran who made the first map of Tennessee, was a Secretary of the Southwest Territory, and served as a U.S. Senator.^[2]

Today, the county seat is Carthage, but at the time the county was created, was "hotly contested between Bledsoesborough (near modern Dixon Springs) and William Walton's ferry and tavern at the confluence of the Caney Fork and the Cumberland River. In 1804, voters chose Walton's site, and a town, named Carthage, was platted the following year."^[3]

where to find additional info - e.g., formation maps or wikipedia

wikipedia page, formation map e.g.,

Timeline

from a profile page:

... [in] Sumner County, Tennessee, on his Fort Blount site. Brother Oliver Williams was around as well. The area, in 1799 would become Smith County, Tennessee, which would later become the present Jackson County, Tennessee.

Categories

The location category to add to someone's profile depends on when the person lived on the land that was once xx County:

• Category: Smith County, Tennessee from xx to xx.^[1]

Smith County exists today as one of Tennessee's 52 counties in Appalachia, one of 38 in the South Central Region.^[4]

Stickers

coming soon

Geography

Maps

• Tennessee County Formation Maps
• Maps of Tennessee
• Historical Atlases (North Carolina, Tennessee)

Adjacent Tennessee Counties

See the category page.

Communities

Following are existing WikiTree categories for towns in Smith County:^[2]

• Carthage, the county seat and home of former Vice President Al Gore's family farm, where he spent his summers working in his youth.^[5]
• Gordonsville
• South Carthage

Communities mentioned earlier on this page:

• Bledsoesborough (near modern Dixon Springs)
• Dixon Springs

Include any WikiTree One Place Studies in Smith County here.

Possible OPS:

• William Walton's ferry and tavern, at the confluence of the Caney Fork and the Cumberland River.

People of Smith County

Daniel Smith, for whom the county was named, was born in Stafford County, Virginia and died in Sumner County, Tennessee.

William Walton (mentioned above), who also served as a magistrate for Smith County.^[6]

Resources

Links from Category: Smith County, Tennessee

• Wikipedia: Smith County, Tennessee/ wikidata
• 1840 Census at Rootsweb

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Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Tennessee County Formation Maps (accessed 26 July 2022).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Wikipedia: Smith County, Tennessee (accessed 26 July 2022).
3. ↑ See Wikipedia's article on Smith County for source citations and additional details.
4. ↑ See WikiTree's Workspace for Appalachia Project - Tennessee, a project page of the Appalachia Project. See also the Tennessee table on the project's Space: Counties of Appalachia page.
5. ↑ Wikipedia: Al Gore (accessed 26 July 2022).
6. ↑ From the historic marker posted to the profile page for William Walton (1760-1816), accessed 26 July 2022.