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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Monument says: "In Memory of Drury Smith, 1748 - 1822 who is presumed to be buried in a nearby grave on Paw Paw Creek."
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Author: Rev Douglas Arnold Puckett
Drury Smith was a wealthy tobacco plantation owner with land at both Rockingham County, North Carolina and nearby Henry County, Virginia. He was a son of Thomas Smith and Elizabeth Witt, who moved from eastern Virginia after the French and Indian War to two acres of land on the Paw Paw River. This land became the Smith Tobacco Plantation.
Drury Smith married Elizabeth Vaughn in 1767. He owned 1400 acres of land and one slave. His 15 children worked the Smith Tobacco Plantation.
During the Revolutionary War, Drury Smith contributed goods and services - probably beef or other food - to the North Carolina Militia. The Hillsborough Auditor’s office for the state compensated him to the amount of 36 pounds, six pence, June 10, 1782. He was 36 years of age at the time.
Drury Smith's family soon became a leading family and was one of the wealthiest of the area, as well as faithful members of the early Methodist Church.
In 1994, the Daughters of the American Revolution dedicated a marker and headstone at the cemetery of Christian View Church at the Price Community that is inscribed "Drury Smith, 1745-1822, who is presumed to be buried in a nearby grave on Paw Paw Creek."
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