James (Jim) Smith Family

JAMES (JIM) SMITH

(January 21, 1897 - February 26, 1963)

James "Jim" Smith was the fifth child of William and Rachel. He was married to Mildred Farr, and according to Ancestry records, together they had thirteen children: daughters Lucille, Evernell, Edna, Josie, and Willie Lee; and sons Clyde, Charley, Henry Charles (H.C.), Jessie Ray, twins Morris and Modies, Vernon, and Benjamin. Although not documented in census records, family folklore tells that they also had two additional children, James Jr. and Vera, whose lives were tragically cut short by a virus at a time when advanced medicine was not yet available.

In the image below, William Smith (Jim's father) is on the left, and Jim Smith is on the right.

MILDRED FARR-SMITH

(April 1, 1893 - February 14, 2000)

The 1870 and 1880 US Federal Censuses, as recorded in Pinckney, Union, South Carolina, list Thomas and Lynie Farr as a married couple with children named Alice, Charles (Mildred's father), Milton, Amathy (Mattie), Hucker, and Cordelia.

LYNIE FARR (grandmother of Mildred Farr)

MARY LINDSAY-FARR (mother of Mildred Farr)

The U.S. Federal Censuses of 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 for Pinckney, Union, South Carolina, record Charles Farr and Mary Lindsay-Farr as married with children: Will, Mildred, Tom, Thedora (also Vestula), Henry, Burdell, Quinteen, Creola, Lynie, twins Beuford and Beulah and Foster.