Jim and Mildred Family

JAMES (JIM) SMITH

(January 21, 1897 - February 26, 1963)

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.

From left to right, Mildred, Creola, and the twins, Beulah and Beuford.

JAMES (JIM) SMITH AND MILDRED FARR-SMITH

By the time of the 1920 census, Jim and Mildred were married. As recorded in the censuses of 1920, 1930, and 1940, they had the following children in this order: Lucille, Evernell, Edna, Clyde, Charley, Henry Charles (HC), Jessie Ray, Josie, Willie Lee, twins Morris and Modies, Vernon, and Benjamin. Although not recorded in the census, folklore has it that they also had two more children, James Jr. and Vera, whose lives were tragically cut short by a virus, due to the lack of advanced medicine available at that time.

THE CHILDREN