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Sources consulted for the biography of:Henry D. Smith ( –d. 1901)
Primary Sources
- United States Census Schedules, Greensville County, 1870 (age thirty-eight), 1880 (age forty-one), 1900 (Sept. 1834 birth date and age sixty-five), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Third marriage (with age forty-two on Dec. 7, 1880) in Greensville Co. Marriage License Book 4, 338.
- Greensville Co. Deed Books, 12:6–7, 287; 14:211, 242–245; 15:325–326; 17:499–501, 507–508; 19:22, 122–123, 285–286, 343–344; 20:508; 22:60–61, 254, 480–481, 625–626.
- Greensville Co. Order Books, 13:159, 287; 14:4, 135, 175; 20:236 (widow appointed administrator of Smith's estate on Dec. 2, 1901).
- Business activities documented in John H. Batte v. Henry D. Smith, Greensville Co. Chancery Cause, 1882-021 and in H. D. Smith v. Alexander Rae, Greensville Co. Chancery Cause, 1886-004.
- Some family information and Smith's last recorded appearance on July 16, 1901, in John Smith v. Truitt Vincent Co. Etc., Greensville Co. Chancery Cause, 1905-006, Library of Virginia.
- Smith's estate inventory in Greensville Co. Will Book 10:172–173.
- James T. Haley, comp., Afro-American Encyclopaedia (1896), 225 (second quotation).
- Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 39.
Political Career
- Greensville County, Fourth Precinct, List of Colored Voters, 1867, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Military Rule Election Records (1867, 1869), Record Group 13, Library of Virginia.
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, No. 14 (1879), State Government Records Collection, Record Group 13, Library of Virginia.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1879–1880 sess.), 30, 60, 105, 211, 386, 404.
Newspapers
- Richmond Whig, Nov. 6, 1879.
- Staunton Spectator, Nov. 11, 1879.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, Nov. 6, 1879; Nov. 25, 1879.
- Warsaw Northern Neck News, Feb. 20, 1880 (first quotation).
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