Forwarded with permission from Wilma Smith <[email protected]> She also has more info, contact her directly at above address. pat >William J. Smith b. May 27, l827 in Scott County d. July 9, l907 Here is >excerpt from The Centennial History of Grant County Indiana Vol l, Published >in l9l0 on William & Dicy's son: >"Captain William Smith, the father of Paschal B., was born at Three Springs, >Virginia in l827 and died near his birth place in July l907. Throughout his >life he was a planter, and a man of unusual prominence in his section of >Virginia. When the war broke out he enlisted and went to the front as a >Captain in the Forty-Eight Virginia Regiment. In the battle of Saltville, >Va. he was badly wounded. The gun which affected the wound carried a charge >of a minnie-ball and four buckshots and the minnie-ball and three buckshot >took effect on him while he was lyong the ground, one of the bullets striking >his shoulder and the others injuring his hand and fingers. This wound was >given him about the close of the war and peace was declared about the time he >got well. He had formerly served as captain of the local militia and after >the war was brevetted colonel of his home regiment of state militia. He also >for many years served as a justice of the peace. In politics he was a >Democrat and was looked upon as a leader in the public life of his community. > Near his old birth place, Captain Smith married Miss Dicy Fleenor who was >born in that locality about l836 also representing an old Virginia family. >She died in March l9l2. She was of Lutheran faith in religion and kept her >membership with that church all her life. Her husband was a Methodist. >There were the parents of twelve children, nine of whom grew up and are yet >living. All are married and all have families of childen. Two now live in >Indiana. Pascal B. Smith has a sister, Margaret, the wife of Colonel >Columbus Pullin, a resident of Muncie Indiana and they have seven living >children." > >He m. Dicy C. Fleeenor on 2/26/l852 in Scott Co. Dicy was b. 2/4/l836 d/ >3/29/l9l2 Scott Co. Va. Ch: Paschal Buford, Susan C., Mary M., Sara S., >Franklin P., Louisa L., Amos., May., Charles L, Sidney, Ollie, Minnie O, >Donie E. > >Sarah A Smith d/o of Samuel & Rachel m. Joel H. Fleener on l2/2/l852 in >Scott co. >ch: Martin, John M. Rachel C., Samuel M., Louiza V., James R., Joel., Sarah >A. > >Listing the Fleenors because I know of the interest in Fleenors but I also >have Smiths. Wilma Smith >