History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr, American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922 Vol. III, p. 169, Webster Co. Charles Morehead Smith, M.D. Thirty-five years of work as a physician and surgeon lends a special dignity to the reputation of Doctor Smith in Webster County. While he has faithfully discharged his duties and obligations as a man of medicine, he has also cultivated other interests, particularly as a scientific and practical horticulturist, and is owner of a large fruit orchard in Webster County. His birth occurred on a farm in that county December 9, 1863, while his father was in the Confederate army. He is a son of John W. and Mary (Mooney) Smith, both natives of Webster County. His paternal grandfather, Hiram Smith, was born in Virginia and was a boy when his parents moved to Kentucky. Of the four sons of Hiram Smith, two, John and Frank, were Confederate soldiers. Just at the close of the war, two of the brothers, Frank and Charles M., died while another brother, Willie Pearson Smith, moved to Texas, where he is still living. John W. Smith after the war took up the vocation of a farmer, and moved to Missouri and died there in 1893, soon afterward. He was a democrat and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. By his first marriage to Mary Mooney, who died at the age of forty-one, he had ten children. He afterward married Sarah Clark, who is still living. Doctor Smith grew up on a farm and supplemented his advantages in the country schools with the high school at Dixon. For his professional education he was graduated in medicine in 1885. He at once returned to the county seat of his home county, and for many years has had all of the practice that his time and energies make it possible to serve. Doctor Smith has kept in close touch with the advanced standards of graduate courses in New York and Chicago. He is a member of the Webster County and Kentucky State and the American Medical Association. Doctor Smith's orchard, the largest in Webster County, comprises eighty one acres and has been scientifically handled in every department. It produces great quantities of perfect fruit, commanding the highest price on the market. Its principal crops are apples, peaches, pears and cherries. The orchard is handled on a commercial scale, and the product is shipped in carload lots. Doctor Smith is a democrat, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. In 1886, he married Miss Mary Campbell. Her father was the late Dr. G. W. Campbell, who died after many years of laborious work as a country physician in Webster County. In his youth he served as a soldier in the Mexican war, and he also did farming in connection with his profession. He was one of the greatly beloved old doctors of this district of Western Kentucky. Doctor and Mrs. Smith had five children: Carl, Frank, Roy, Ruth and Charles M., Jr. All are living except Frank. Campbell Clark Mooney Smith = VA TX MO http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/webster/smith.cm.txt