County of Christian, Kentucky.  Historical and Biographical.  Edited by
William Henry Perrin.  F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, p. 413.

MICHAEL O. SMITH is a native of Shelby County, Tenn.  He was born
February 13, 1848, and is the fourth son of Benjamin V. and Evaline
(Mahar) Smith; his father's family consisted of eight children, six of
these are now living.  Their father was killed by Federal soldiers in
Arkansas, October 12, 1863.  Their mother resides in Arkansas and is now
living in her sixty-eighth year.  Mr. Smith, the subject, was educated
in the Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tenn., and remained there six
years, graduating in literature in the summer of 1876.  He united with
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1868, and entered the ministry in
1870.  A faithful minister of Christ for five years, physical disability
then compelled him to abandon that field of usefulness.  One October 1,
1883, he engaged in the grocery trade.  June 29, 1880, he married Miss
Annie E. Casky, daughter of James and Eliza (Wood) Casky.  She was born
in this county October 10, 1854.  They have a daughter, born in
Hopkinsville, May 10, 1881.  Mr. Smith's mother was born in Florence,
Ala., and removed in childhood with her father's family to Tennessee;
her father, Michael Mahar, ws a pioneer school-teacher, and first
settled the place where the city of Memphis has since arisen.

Casky Mahar Smith Wood
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