Identifier: familytreebookge00byusmit (find matches)
Title: Family tree book, genealogical and biographical : listing the relatives of General William Alexander Smith and of W. Thomas Smith
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Smith, William Thomas, 1868- Flake, Oz, 1868-1958 Smith, W. A. (William Alexander), b. 1843 Burns, Julia Hough Flake, 1895-
Subjects: Smith family Flake family
Publisher: (Evansville? Ind.) : W. Thomas Smith
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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m can be found only sketches ofreal makers of America. One hundred years ago the sawmill hadnot yet been invented. Practically all struc-tures were wooden. The building of a nowmodern home as we know it, was beyond thefinancial reach of all save a few of the wealth-ier citizens. With trees and logs some builthovels or cabins. Some used more care andbuilt homes. A few built mansions. Tobuild a house with planks, they had to besawed by man power. High wainscoting,doors, mantles, all hand carved, requiredmuch time and enormous labor. It tooktime to square the logs, mortise and jointthem and hew them as-smooth as the modernplaning mill can make them. To build ahouse with these hand-carved doors, mantlesand hand-sawed planks, with smooth hewedlogs, coming so close together as to requireno daubing, and yet keep out the bleakwinds of stormy weather, and make the homewarmer in winter, cooler in summer than themodern home, cost for those days a large sumof money. This was the home that Presley
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Family Tree Book Genealogical and Biographical Nelme built for his family, three miles fromAnsonville and near the banks of the GreatPee Dee River. It was akin to the manor ofnobility, as pleasing as the palace of royalty.This mansion still stands, well kept, com-fortable in all ways, the home of BennettDunlap Nelme, the nephew and adopted son ofGen. Smith. It now gains the admiration ofall who visit it. Here it was that Gen. Smithwas born. Here it was he spent the firstfew years of his childhood days. This homeand the many broad acres surrounding itare the sole property of Gen. Smith and havebeen retained in the family for 150 years.Gen. Smith was born in plenty, nourished inlove, lived in opulence, and had every needfulwant supplied. He was trained in religiouseducation, attended the country schools;when advanced, sent to the Academy; fromthere transferred to Davidson College. Asa child he was very busy and early developedan exploring caste of mind. He was accus-tomed to have many o

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