This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Brigman Miller Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Bd.2ADE/720 Message Board Post: Does anyone have the death dates for Asa J. Smith and wife Caroline Elizabeth (Miller) Brigman-Smith? I know they were both alive as of the 1880 census. It appears Asa may have filed for a pension, but have not had a chance to follow that up yet. (Caroline's 1st husband, Robinson Brigman, died at Vicksburg) Descendants of Asa J. Smith 1 Asa J. Smith b: 9 Feb 1839 in Oglethorpe Co., Georgia .. +Caroline Elizabeth Miller b: Abt 1832 in Carroll Co. -or- Heard Co., Georgia m: 1863-1867 Father: John Miller Mother: Tabitha Hammond ...... 2 Lewis C. Smith b: Abt 1867 in Heard Co., Georgia ........... +Susie Gordon Father: Mother: ...... 2 Alice Smith b: Aug 1869 in Heard Co., Georgia ........... +Robert "Bird" Wood b: Jun 1866 in Alabama m: Abt 1893 Father: William Thomas Wood Mother: Nancy A. Blake ............... 3 Thomie Wood b: May 1894 in Heard Co., Georgia ............... 3 Dicie Wood b: Oct 1896 in Heard Co., Georgia ............... 3 Wheeler Wood b: Oct 1899 in Heard Co., Georgia ...... 2 Ida Smith b: Abt 1874 in Heard Co., Georgia ........... +Bud Gordon Father: Mother: MUSTER ROLL OF COMPANY K, 56TH REGIMENT GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY ARMY OF TENNESSEE C. S. A. HEARD COUNTY, GEORGIA Smith, Asa J. - Private May 12, 1862. Pension records show he was wounded in left hand at New Hope Church, Ga. May 1864. Sent to Atlanta, Ga. hospital with gangrene, and furloughed there for 60 days, in 1864. Unable to return and enlisted in Home Guards. (Born in Oglethorpe County, Ga. Feb. 9, 1839.) * 1860 Census - Franklin P. O., Heard Co., GA; pg. 781; HH #803-788; lines 31 -40; 1 living with Baptist Minister U. M. Matthews: 1 803 788 Smith, Asa J., 21, Farmer, b. Ga. * 1880 Census - GMD 761/Texas Dist, Heard Co, Georgia, household #5; pg. 69A Asa J. SMITH Self M Male W 40 GA Farming GA GA Caroline SMITH Wife M Female W 48 GA Keeping House VA GA Lewis SMITH Son S Male W 13 GA Laborer GA GA Ida SMITH Dau S Female W 6 GA GA GA Allice SMITH Dau S Female W 9 GA At School GA GA Kansas BRIGMAN SDau S Female W 21 GA At Home GA GA John BRIGMAN SSon S Male W 19 GA Laborer GA GA Thank you, Valerie (Johnson) Freeman Tustin, California "Remember your history. To forget is to not belong." ~~ Charlotte A. Black Elk