THE SMOTHERMAN FAMILY
By John D Pinkerton

James Smotherman, born 1792, and his brother Samuel Smotherman, born 1792, probably came into New Bedford County in the early 1800's.

James Smotherman married Sarah Mallard Hill, born 1793, widow of J Benjamin Hill, in 1824 Four of their children were: Mary, Rebecca, Eldridge, and Johnathan. This Eldridge Smotherman married Sussanah May, her second. Their son, Richard Smotherman, is the father of Ethel Smotherman who married Richard Garrett, the parents of Holt, Herbert, and Woods Garrett.

Samuel Smotherman and wife, Elizabeth, had eleven children between 1815 and 1838. Elmore Walker Smotherman, born 1828, the eighth of these eleven, married his first cousin, Mary Smotherman in 1851, daughter of Sara and James Smotherman. Elmore Walker Smotherman served in the Confederate Army and was wounded at the Battle of Chicamauga, released and walked home with an injured leg. He and Mary had:

1 Lovinia Smotherman married Drewy (Durusy) Bennett.

2 Eldridge Smotherman (nephew of Eldridge) married Martha Crick in 1872.

3 Mary Elizabeth Smotherman married John C Pinkerton (see Pinkerton).

(The Smotherman genealogy is being researched by a local resident and may be available at a later date.)