Everett Andrew Smith, son of Elias William Smith

Everett Andrew, Everett Andrew Jr,
Mary Nell, & Geneva Ashby Smith

Everett Andrew Smith, son of Elias William Smith, born January 4, 1882, in Ohio County, Kentucky; died August 15, 1928; married Geneva Ashby about 1905 or 1906.

Everett Smith went to Red Bay, Alabama, when he was a young man.  This writer does not know what prompted him to go there, but in 1927 he was considered a wealthy man and was called "the father of Red Bay."  He had numerous business interests, but the chief one was a lumber business he had established.  It was headquartered in Red Bay and had branch offices and mills in three or four other small towns in Alabama.

Cousins:   Martha Mary Smith, Everett Andrew Smith Jr., 

Pearl O. Smith, & Mary Nell Smith

Mrs. Smith survived her husband by a number of years.  She was an active Daughter of the American Revolution.  In her latter years, she was the victim of crippling arthritis.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith's children were:

Everett Andrew Smith, Jr.

Mary Nell Smith

William Ashby Smith

Martha Mary Smith, daughter of Claude Everly Smith

Martha Mary Smith Taylor, George R Taylor,
 Larry Russell Taylor

Martha Mary Smith, daughter of Claude Everly Smith, was born Feburary 5, 1909, in Ohio County, Kentucky.  She graduated from Lindenwood College, a girls' junior college in St. Charles, Missouri.  She then went to the University of Kentucky at Lexington and received a degree there.   

On May 29, 1932, she married George R. Taylor.  They went to Washington, D. C., and entered the Lewis Hotel Training School, but when they were ready to put into practice what they had learned no opportunities were available.  For a number of years they operated a dry cleaning establishment.  

Larry Russell Taylor

Their only child was Larry Russell Taylor, born March 31, 1945.  Larry Russell Taylor is a printer at the National Security Agency, a branch of the Federal Government.  He married Debra Ann Yorkilous at Rockville, Maryland, on April 11, 1969.  They have one child, Jenifer Lynn Taylor, who was born in 1969.

Martha died in Washington, D. C., on May 27, 1958, and is buried in the Washington National Cemetery.