Robley

Lemuel and Mary (Dickson) Smith's son Dr. William Jackson Smith
(1815-1860), his wife Elizabeth (Northrop) Smith, their son William T.
Smith (who died in 1864 as a cadet in the Georgia Military Institute
Cadet Brigade at Milledgeville), and other members of the family are buried in
the cemetery just off the highway at Robley, Georgia (named for Dr. Robley
Dunglison, Dr. William J. Smith's professor at the Jefferson Medical
College in Philadelphia). One of their sons, Dr. Jonathan Northrop Smith, a
Confederate veteran from Crawford County, was a member of the Georgia
Legislature. Another was Judge Robely Dunglison Smith, Crawford Coiunty
ordinary and state legislator for a number of years. His home once stood
just across the highway from the Crawford County courthouse at Knoxville.
As you probably know, Hickory Grove (Robley Community) was the scene of the
Hickory Grove Slave Insurrection in 1860, fomented by Amos V. Dreher.
Dr. James Dickson Smith, also a son of Lemuel and Mary (Dickson) Smith, is
buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia, with his family. He first
practiced in Hickory Grove (Robley), later in Knoxville, then in Forsyth,
and finally in Macon (although he died in Atlanta). He was a co-organizer
of the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) and was an assistant surgeon in
the 33rd Regiment Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade.

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This page was last updated Sunday, August 13, 2006

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