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 Abt 1760 - 1833 (73 years)
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- David Smith is SAR Patriot P-291730 and DAR Ancestor A105094.
- He was born about 1760, the fourth child of Job Smith, Sr., of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
- He married Rebecca Lindley in March 1782 or 1783 at Abbeville District, South Carolina. She was born August 9, 1762 and was a daughter of James Lindley and Mary Cox. Rebecca Lindley was David Smith's only wife.She died in April 1857 in Walton County, Georgia.
- David Smith and Rebecca Lindley Smith were the parents of the following children: James, William, Mary, Ruth, Joseph, Job, Catherine, Hannah, John and Elizabeth. The Smith family located at Laurens District, South Carolina. In 1807, David and Rebecca removed to Walton County, Georgia.
- He was a Private of Horse in the South Carolina Troops during the Revolutionary War. Smith served under the command of Captains Maxfield (or Maxwell), Laurens and Peter Burns, and Colonels Pickens and Wade Hampton. He also served in expeditions against the Indians. His total length of service was about two years.
David Smith's wife, Rebecca, received a Revolutionary War Widow's Pension. The complete pension application is 135 pages in length and is located in the collections of the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), publication M804, Archive Roll Number 2209. It is accessible electronically through ancestry.com.
A transcription of the pension application by Will Graves on 30 Jun 2011 can be accessed at http://www.revwarapps.org/w6082.pdf
- His grave was originally dedicated on 09 Dec 2007 by an unknown SAR chapter. A graves registry form was not completed at that time. The grave was dedicated again on 17 Apr 2021 by the Sunbury Chapter NSDAR. Prior to the ceremony, a DAR Patriot Grave Marker was placed at the existing headstone marker in the cemetery.
This Grave Marking was supported by the GA SAR Color Guard and the Elijah Clark Militia.
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