Charles Wilson Smith was born on March 15, 1909, in Mulberry, Tennessee. Their first (and who would be their only) child together, his father, Nathan, was 24 and his mother, Sallie, was 19 at the time of his birth.

On the 1910 Census done in April of that year, he is living with his mother and father in the 4th Civil District of Moore county, Tennessee, and is 1.5 years old. His father Nathan is listed as working as a farm laborer and they rent their home.

Nathan tragically drowned in 1911 while fishing on the Elk River when Charlie was only 2 years old. In 1915, 4 years later, his mother re-married Nathan’s brother, John Edgar Smith>

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On the 1920 Census, Charlie is listed as living with the family and his 2 younger half-sisters, Gladys and Hulda, having moved from Moore County to Lincoln County, Tennessee. His older half -brother Jared, isn’t found on this Census living with the family, and appears to have likely moved to Chattanooga by this time.

On the 1930 Census, he is listed as living with the family and all of his younger siblings (Gladys, Hulda, Estelle, Ruth, Doug, and Joe. Another half sister, Johnnie Jewel Smith, had been born in 1925, but died before she reached her first birthday). They live in Lincoln County, and the Census reflects that he is working as a salesman for a dry goods store (DY Morehead’s store, maybe?). He went on to attend Middle Tennessee State College in Murfreesboro as well as the University of North Carolina, and received a Law Degree from Chattanooga School of Law.

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He married Alice Reeve on April 25, 1937, in Calhoun, Georgia. They had three children during their marriage, Margaret “Peggy” Anne (1940), Nancy Alice (1942) and Charles Wilson, Jr. (1946).

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Charlie died on August 2, 1966 of a heart attack, in Calhoun, Georgia, at the age of 58.

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Alice died September 3, 1982.

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