Joy- I am not researching SMITH's in LCT. Please take the information below only as a lead. I really don't have any more info than this. I don't have a total answer to your question. I am going to do a 'brain dump' of everything known about Smithland. LCT Pioneers Vol VIII, No. 2&3, page 49. From Fayetteville Observer May 7, 1885 "The largest store in the County. which was half a mile square, has been destroyed, not by fire which has become so common of late, but by the powers at Washington. We refer to the corporation of George Store and Postoffice that have passed into oblivion, the place now bears the name Smithland." NOTE: This was first known as Arnold's Store, then George Store and in 1885 Smithland. JNJ LCT Goodspeed Biographies, published in 1887. Richard Smith (b. 1827), son of Richard Smith and Elizabeth Arwood Smith; Owned business called Smithland. You can read the Goodspeed Bio for Richard Smith and your Rev. Smith at: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~pearidger/history/gdlctbio.shtml This may help - my notes in [] In 1878 [Rev.] A. P. Smith entered the Tennessee Conference as a Methodist Episcopal minister, and in 1880 entered the editorial profession, and edited the Upper Cumberland, a Democratic paper, but four years [1884] later disposed of it, and engaged in agriculture. local minister, and delivers many lectures in favor of temperance. And lastly, if you could take a look at my information about Rev. Smith at: http://www.azcaseys.com/lookups/lct1850/index.html and make any corrections that you know of, I'd greatly appreciate it. It is always fun to sort out Smith's! Hope this helps! Diane P.S. to LCT list: If you haven't already looked at this - the Goodspeed Biographies are very helpful. Go to link above and do a 'find' in you browser for your surname. Don't just scroll through the list alphabetically as other surname are embedded within write-up for the different families. These were published for many counties in TN. Not sure when the other counties were published but the LCT one was published in 1887. ========================================================================= "Joy Smith" <joy0420@charter.net> wrote: <mailto:joy0420@charter.net> Can anyone tell me - Did Smithland get it's name from the Rev. Joseph Smith, Methodist Circuit Rider, buried behind Turkey Creek Methodist Church outside Lynchburg, TN? Joy