SHIPMAN Samuel, born 1820-24 Henderson County, North Carolina married Martha Sparks 1883 in Alabama. Lived in Lyerly, Chattooga County, Georgia in 1886 through 1906. Contact: MarthaShipman, 3266 W. Nickajack Road, Ringgold, GA 30736. Ref: Georgia Research Helper, No. 6,December 1997.
SMITH, Hardy b. 1757 d. 2/1852, Rev. War Soldier, enlisted atCumberland Co., N. C. He m. Rebecca Thompson 11/16/1796 inWashington Co., Ga. She d. Laurens Co., Ga. in 1835. Among otherchildren were: Stephen, Lofton, Thompson, Hardy 10/17/1801-3/27/1864 m. (1) Henora Beacham (2) 5/22/1836 Ann Anderson.Ref: History of Laurens County, Georgia.
SMITH, Robert and Mary W., his wife, of Lunenburgh Co., Virginia to Alexander Lester of same county and state for 200 pds. of Virginia money, 300 acres of land in Oglethorpe Co. on Clouds Creek. 2/28/1798. Oglethorpe Deed Book C, page 245.
STANTON Frank L., first Poet Laureate of Georgia, was born in Charleston, SouthCarolina on February 22, 1857, the son of Valentine and Katherine Rebecca Stanton."During my early boyhood," said he, "it was my mothers custom to read to me from theMethodist hymn book. I was brought up on Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts." He workedas a copy boy for the Savannah Morning News. His verse attracted the attention ofJoel Chandler Harris, who was then an editorial writer on the News. In 1887, Stanton began publishing his own paper, TheSmithfield News, at Smithfield. That year he married Miss Leona Josey. Later, heserved on the staff of the Rome Tribune, and the Constitution in Atlanta.He was proclaimed "Poet Laureate of Georgia" on February 22, 1925 by Governor CliffordWalker. Among his poems -- Song of the Soil, Comes One with a Song, Songs fromDixie, Up from Georgia, Little Folks Down South. He died in 1927. Ref: Kilowatt News,Georgia Power Co., Atlanta (unknown date).