This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GeB.2ACI/890.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Augustus Marshall Smith born 10/22/1827 in Stony Point, Abbeville (now Greenwood County) S.C.He married Sarah Wardlaw 1839-1911. He was the son of Joel Smith. Joel was the youngest son of William & Lucy Wright Smith . Joel bought the Stony Point house from his sibblings after his father died. William & Lucy Wright Smith came from VA in 1795 and lived in a long cabin. They started to build the new house with brick. Willian died before finishing it and Joel the youngest son completed it. It still stands. In 1860 Augusus had 135 slaves and a personal estate value of $250,000.00- from the 1860 slave schedule for Abbeville County, S.C. He was killed in the war in VA in1862. Augustus M. Smith had two sons & one son had six children I descend from Joel's brother Skinner Smith.