Jeremiah Smith was the son of Jeremiah Smith and Jemimah Holley, and brother to George N. Smith. He married Joanna Dillon, Dec 16, 1798. Joanna was a sister to George Smith's wife, Clarissa "Clara" Dillon.
The 13 known children of Jeremiah and Joanna were: Holly, Martha "Patsie", Eli, Jeane, Edwin, Wyatt, Eliza, Calvin, Liddy, Mahala, Melovie, JoAnn "Annie", and Jeremiah.
*Note: There has been much confusion between the mother of Jeremiah Smith, Jemimah Holley and the Jemimah Hollis that was a daughter of Moses Hollis and Rosannah Hagan. These were two very different women.
The parents of Jerry Smith were Jeremiah Smith Sr. who died prior to March 1810 in Wilkinson Co., Ga and Jemima Holley who died at her home on the Tangipahoa River near the current town of Tangipahoa, LA.

JEREMIAH CAME FROM LANCASTER CO., SC IN 1808. HE MOVED IN A CART, AND SETTLED NEAR DILLONTOWN, PIKE CO. MS. HE WAS ONE OF THE FINEST MECHANICS OF HIS TIME. ("PIKE CO. HISTORY") The story is that after he built his house, the Spanish West Florida surveyors came through and he found he was not in U.S. territory. So he moved across the line to Pike Co, Mississippi, near Dillontown. Later, he heard hammering nearby and went to see who his new neighbor was. It was his brother George, who had come later with their mother. Neither had known where the other was. Jeremiah served in the War of 1812. George married Joanna's sister Clara in 1817.
PROPERTY IN PIKE CO., MS:
DEC. 2, 1811 - NE QUARTER SEC. 28, TWP. 1 NORTH, RANGE 10 EAST.
FEB. 14, 1812 - WEST ONE-HALF, SEC. 28, TWP. 1 NORTH, RANGE 10 EAST.

JEREMIAH AND JOANNA BECAME MEMBERS OF THE SILVER CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH 6TH OF AUGUST 1827. (CHURCH MINUTES):

1829--In March of this year Jeremiah Smith introduced the question of "Washing the Saint's Feet” in the conference of the church. 'The consideration of the matter was confined to the April meeting and again postponed until May, and was then decided to be a church duty to be performed after worship at any set time by the church. But, it was also added: "The church disclaims the idea of enforcing it in those who dissent therefrom.” This custom continued in the churches in this section of country for more than thirty years.-—In August Thompson Wallis v.as made clerk. Benjamin Morgan was made "cashier to hold all money contributed for the house of the Lord.’’—Willis Simmons and Thompson Wallis were elected delegates to the association.

1830.— Jeremiah Smith and Willis Simmons were made delegates to the Baptist Association.

1831.—Early in the year, Thompson Wallis, after nearly two years of service resigned the clerkship and Henry Simmons was made clerk. Jeremiah Smith was made treasurer.—Jeremiah Smith and Willis Simmons elected delegates to the association.

1833.—Committee was appointed to transcribe minutes from old book to new one, viz: Jeremiah Smith, Richard Forrest, Thompson i, Wallis, S. P. Shope and Henry Simmons.

1834. —The committee appointed last year to transcribe the minutes gave up the task and was discharged. It would have been a hard task and almost useless, as they are brief and indefinite to be satisfactory history. They continued to use the old original book for recording the minutes through this year, and then began with a new book. The hand writing of the minutes changes with the close of last year, l833, but there is no mention of change of church clerk, and no record of delegates to the association.-Measures of discipline occupied attention of the church during the year.

The Land Certificate No. 6069, from Ihe United States Receiver’s office, at Washington, Mississippi, bearing date December 29, 1838, and certifying to the payment of the sum of fifty dollars from Reason Burns, Jeremiah Smith, and Henry Simmons, trustees, for forty acres of land, to-wit: N. E. Quarter of the N. W. Quarter, of Section Two (2). Township One (1). Range Nine (9) East, on which the church was located, was presented to the church and recorded in the minutes.

SERVED AS PRIVATE, WAR OF 1812, 13TH REGIMENT (NIXON'S) OF MISS. MILITIA. (PAGE 1-3, SRPC)

IN THE 1813 TAX LIST MARION-LAWRENCE CO., MS ( 1 POLE, 3 SLAVES, 320 ACRES, 4TH CLASS, 2ND QUALITY, BOGUECHITTA, $.48, $2.16)

IN THE 1816 PIKE CO., MS CENSUS.

1813 TAX LIST LAWRENCE CO., (INCLUDED MARION CO.) MS; 320 ACRES ON BOGUE CHITTO RIVER.
(THE HOME WAS LOCATED NEAR HIS BROTHERS-IN-LAW WHERE MAGEE'S CREEK RUNS INTO THE BOGUE CHITTO JUST SOUTH OF LEXIE IN CURRENT WALTHALL CO., MS.)

1835 TAX LIST OF PIKE CO., MS WITH 880 ACRES ON BOGUE CHITTO RIVER.

The Jeremiah G. Smith Bible is on record in the NationalArchives. There is also a copy on the internet from the recordsof the Latter Day Saints.
JEREMIAH SMITH SR. BIBLE

Holbrook and Fessenden's Stereotype Edition of the Holy Bible,
Brattleboro, Vt., 1825. Original owner, Jeremiah Smith Sr. of Pike County,
Miss. Copied by Texana Carter, Aug. 27, 1954. In possession of Mrs. W. C.
Uhlman, Rt. 6, Tylertown, Miss., great granddaughter.

RECORD

William Vandon Smith was born July 28th 1880
Jephtha Ollie Smith was born July 23, 1884
Janett Cylmon Smith was born Nov. 18, 1894
Jephtha Ollie Smith deceased on the 28th of Sept. 1885, age 1 yr,
2 mo., 5 da
Janatt Aylman Smith d. 22 Dec. 1894
Jeremiah Smith was born Dec. 25, 1773
Joannae Smith b. Aug. 22, 1778 was married on the 16th December 1798
Hollender Smith born July 8, 1800
Martah Smith b. Mar. 25, 1802
Eli Smith b. Jan 21, 1804
Jeane Smith Oct 9, 1805
Edwin Smith bo. June 3, 1807
Wiatt b. Aug. 31, 1809
Eliza Smith b. Feb. 14, 1811 (N. B. M. Lam Bullock)
Calvin Smith bon. Sept. 22, 1812
Lidda Smith born April 6, 1816
Eliza deceased April 6, 1837
William George Smith d. June 10, 1862 (In C.S.A.)
Ancil Green Smith d. June 18, 1862
Sarah Laemender Cox Brumfield died March 6, 1872
Eli--deceased 2nd August 1838, age 34 years, 6 mo. 12 da
Jeremiah Smith Jr. and Pernesa Smith m. July 15, 1841
Jarratt Cylmon Smith and Eliz Jane Brock m. Oct. 3, 1878
Pernesa Smith b. Sept. 6, 1820 and d. April 4, 1887, 66 yrs. 6 mo. 4 da
Jeremiah Smith was born April 30, 1821, deceased 13 May 1894,
age 73 years 13 d.
Marcus W. Graves and Ida Brumfield were married Feb. 21, 1895
William George Brumfield was born March 22, 1869
Lidya Brumfield b. March 26, 1871
Georgia Lamenda Graves b. Aug. 19, 1898
Bennie Elisha Graves b. March 19, 1896, d. Feb. 18, 1917
Ancie Monroe Simmons b. June 16, 1873
Ottis Nathaniel Graves b. Nov. 10, 1901 d. March 18, 1917
Sedgie Edward Graves born Feb. 14, 1904
Mehala Smith b. Jyly 15, 1816
Nelevey Smith b. April 13, 1818
Joanna Smith b. Oct. 5, 1819
Jeremiah Smith b. April 30, 1821
Eliza Jane Bullock was born Jyly 6, 1833
Julian Bullock was born Nov 19, 1834 (NB: he m. a Thornhill)
Rody Elizabeth Bullock was born Mar. 21, 1837
William George Smith son of above born Dec. 6, 1842

DEATHS

Ancil Green on the 14 day of March, 1845
Eliza Jane on the 7th day of May 1847
Limender --
Sarah --

BIRTHS

Wm. George Smith born Dec. 4, 1842
Ancil G. Smith b. March 14, 1845
Eliza Jane Smith b. May 7, 1847
Sarah Lemender, Copelia was b. May 27, 1849
Clara Joanna Smith b. April 29, 1855
Garratt Silmon Smith borned April 16, 1857
Samantha Ann Arzalena Pain was born July 14, 1860

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