Jaba, His first reference to a Smith is of Isaac Smith , who later was referred to as Rev. Isaac H. Smith: "Of the clergy I remember, besides Mr. Reid, my teacher, Revs. Isaac Smith, Bond English, a one-eyed man, ----Berry, and Mr. Mathis, Ordinary,who preached occasionally, all Methodists." The above was in Camden 1811-1817. The next was in Columbia: "Next to Bynum's was "the cheapest store under the son" kept by a Jew whose name I have forgotten, and then came the dry goods store of "Black-eyed Billy Taylor" whose residence was on the corner. Mr. T., a relative of the old patriarchal family of that name, subsequently moved to Lexington, near Platt Springs, on Congaree Creek. One of his daughters married Isaac H. Smith, an old classmate of mine in Camden, who taught school both in Lexington and in Columbia; another, the wife of P.G. McGregor, is still living here; and still another, married to Jacob Bell, was the mother of Mrs. C.H. Miot." Lexington 1822-1829 "John Meetze and Wes Caughman were prominent Lutherans and a few years later they spent no small sum in erecting the Lutheran church and in promoting education by employing teachers in the Academy in Lexington which was well attended by pupils from Columbia, Sandy Run, the Fork and other places. Dennis Chupp, the famous mathmatical genius, Amos Davis from Fairfield, Lemuel Boozer,(afterwards Judge), Isaac H. Smith, and Washington Muller,of Charleston, were by turns principals in the Academy, till it passed into the hands of Dr. Hazelius, president of the Lutheran seminary." Columbia:(this is a different Smith) "At, or next, above McDowell's was old Dr. Smith, a very stout, fat man who had two sons, John and James, and a daughter, Grace, who married Arba Sterns and removed to one of the western states. Near the sight of the Ice House lived Joseph Smith, a carpenter, whose daughter was first married to William Hitchcock, and afterwards to Robert Swaffield. whom she survives." Lexington:the Dutch Fork (still another Smith) " Henry Smith, who had married into the Summer family, though untaught, was a capital millwright, and among other experiments he tried, after using the water in working the mill,to carry it back into the pond by buckets, and thus make an approach to perpetual motion. He moved from the Fork to the Sand Hills and erected a mill on Black Creek where he made money and concealed a considerable sum in silver coins at one time under the floor of his dwelling, whence it was abstracted and he was sued for slander by a member of his family whom he accused of having stolen it. When in his cups he boasted much of his "mudderwit", but it failed to secure the treasure beneath his house." Still Lexington: Judge Gantt was extremely afraid of fire, and when holding court in Columbia always lodged on the ground floor for an easy exit in case of an alarm. Sometimes, to avoid the apprehended danger, he stayed at the house of John Smith, at Smith's Branch. Mr. Smith was a sincere and pious Methodist of very simple manners and appearance,but the judge pronounced him "a d'md swinge cat at prayer". "Whitefoord Smith": Bishop Capers of the Methodist Church was particularly distinguished for saint-like purity, humility, and benignity of countenance and character; with the most melodius voice I ever heard, not excepting that of William C. Preston or Whitefoord Smith." Whew!! Blanche