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Smith Cemetery, 72-2 Summary Report, page 17
Administrator of Hughy's estate at Final Settlement, stated in the affidavit that he was not informed as to whether or not the husbands of Margaret A. Richards, Cynthia N. Otey, Lucy Crisman, or Prudence E. Ledbetter were living. He likewise stated that he did not know whether any of the heirs of Isabella E. Otey and Mary E. Parker were minors. Finally, he stated that he did not know whether any of the above-named parties were of unsound mind. It should be noted that from the wording of the Final Settlement, Stanhope C. Smith was perhaps considered by someone to be less than a man of integrity or financial competency as the initial Administrator of the estate of his father Hughy Smith. This is deduced from the parenthetical notation beside Stanhope's name that his interest in the estate . has been absorbed in his administration of it.” The 1875 map shows that H. W. Grantland became the owner of Hughy Smith's lands where the cemeteries are located. He obtained the land through his father-in-law, William B. Edwards, who purchased the Hughy Smith plantation at public auction on the Madison County courthouse steps around 1860. Henry Grantland married Lizzie (Elizabeth) P. Edwards in Madison County on April 5, 1860. She was given the Smith Plantation lands by her father William and mother Martha on February 28, 1874, according to Madison County Deed Book WW, page 574. The contents of the Grantland family file at the Heritage Room of the Huntsville - Madison County Public Library show that Henry W. Grantland was the 11th child of William and Susan Draper Grantland. The information in the file was contributed by (Mrs. R. K.) Clifford Sharp Coffee of 807 Pine Drive, Box 509, Jacksonville, AL 36265. That information shows that Henry W. Grantland was born August 5, 1832. He died February 17, 1926, and is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1882 Henry Grantland deeded his lands in Madison County to his children: Beulah G. Rice, Mary Grantland, Harry Grantland, and Lizzie Grantland - per Madison County Deed Book GGG, pages 353 - 354. Henry W. Grantland married first Marie / Maria F. Owen(s) on February 3, 1857 (per Madison County Marriage Book 4B, page 211), when he was about 25 and she was 19 years old. Maria's age is stated from the data in the 1850 Madison County census, where she was listed as 12 years old in the household of her father Thomas J. Owens (39, b. VA) and his wife Mary E. [Jamar] (37, b. VA). Apparently Maria died soon after the marriage, as Henry married Lizzie P. Edward[s] on April 10, 1860, per Madison County Marriage Book 4B, page 395. Lizzie was shown in the 1850 census as age 7 17 - (2630)