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Smith Slave Cemetery, 72-1 Summary Report, page 11

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The INDEX TO LANDS compiled by G. W. Jones & Sons, Inc., shows the ownership changes via private deeds through the rest of the 1800s: The INDEX TO LANDS reveals that Hughy Smith retained title to the SE/4 of Section 15 until his death, when it passed to his son Stanhope Smith. Stanhope was a physician, who apparently did not want to be a plantation “farmer”. He allowed the land to eventually go to auction, and William B. Edwards purchased it in 1867 - after the slaves had been emancipated during the Civil War, which ended in 1865. (See details of the Smith family 11 - (2606)    

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