Don, don't know whether I have passed this information along to you or not. If not, here it is:

           To:     File - Smith Family
           From: TVL
           Date:  November 24, 2006
           Re:     Thomas B. Smith

My ancestor Tomas B. Smith appears to have moved to Giles County, TN, after selling his lot in Franklin in 1812. In A Brief Sketch of the Settlement and Early History of Giles County, Tennessee, by James McCallum, published by the Pulaski Citizen, Pulaski, Tennessee in 1938, there is mention of a Captain Thomas Smith as being an early citizen of Giles County and Pulaski, the county seat of Giles County. On page 27 he says: Among the taverns were Lewis Kirk, on Richland Creek at the foot of the shoals, Captain Thomas (Tubb) Smith on the north-east corner of the square.

If this is my ancestor Thomas B. Smith, it tells us a couple of things. He was a captain, or at least was called "Captain". That figures. We know he was in the War of 1812. In the inventory of his estate when he died in 1838 there was a uniform coat and a sword.

Don't know where the parenthetical Tubb came from or what it means. Must be a nickname. It could mean that he was a little on the fat side.

When he died in 1838, his death notice said that he was a clerk in a store in Nolensville. That would indicate that he followed a clerical-commercial occupation during his life time.

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