Brent of Kentucky and Monroe County, Georgia

Thomas Young Brent came from Kentucky. He descends from a family dating back to the Magna Charta. He came to Georgia sometime after the War Between the States, a soldier himself, and married the widow of Wesley Clements. She had married Clements in Muscogee County, had two children by him, and was residing on the plantation of her father during the war. Clements did not return home from the war. Jane "Jennie" Smith, the daughter of Davis Smith and his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Jourdan, were married in Monroe County on 1 May 1867. Seated in this photograph to the right is Thomas Young Brent, about ten years younger than Jennie. (Taken about 1885 on the old Davis Smith Plantation in Brent, Forsyth County, Georgia). Jennie's father died in 1868 and Brent took over the operations of the plantation. When the war broke out, Davis Smith owned more than a 100 slaves, but all was lost. Brent had a merchantile store in the area which sold the overflow from the plantation. Around 1900 he and Jennie removed to Atlanta to reside in a home on Cherokee Avenue in Grant Park. Jennie died 12 October 1903 at Ft. McPherson, Georgia and was buried in the old Smith Cemetery in Brent, but Brent died in the Old Soldier's Home in Kentucky. Issue:

• Taylor Young Brent (pictured) was born 11 February 1869 at Brent Georgia and married Annie Tindall Hill in Macon on 29 January 1893. He died 20 March 1934 in Forsyth, Georgia. Issue:
  
  

  A. Lucy Palmer Brent was born 9 May 1894 at Brent, Georgia, died 3 May 1896.
  B. Harry Tindall Brent was born 29 July 1896 at Brent, Georgia and married Ruth Helen Newman on 29 November 1917.
  C. Minnie Sue Brent was born 11 January 1897 Forsyth, Georgia, died 1 February 1897.
  D. Howard Cumley Brent was born 25 December 1899 at Brent, Georgia, died 11 May 1959 in Gonzalez, Texas.
  

• Jack Innis Brent (pictured) was born 18 December 1871, Brent, Georgia and married 1 May 1893. He died in New York City on 5 June 1908.
  
  

Davis Smith Plantation, Brent (Forsyth County) Georgia which became the Brent Plantation after the War Between the States.


Brent store on the plantation. The Brent community was located southwest of Forsyth, at the northwest junction of Highway 83 South. named after Thomas Young Brent, a Macon merchant. The post office at Brent was established by the grandsons of Colonel Davis Smith, T. Y. Brent and William P. Clements, its postmaster.



Thomas Young Brent, Jr., born 1841, died 1915, second husband of Jane Smith.

T. Y. Brent Bible

Ref: Personal Records of Jeannette Holland Austin.