6/21/10

Beth Smith Ruyle visits Smithville, Named for Great Grandmother



Beth Smith Ruyle visits Smithville, Georgia, named for her maternal great grandmother.




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3/28/10

Great Grandfather John "Jack" Barrows CSA, 1847-1924

Great Grandfather John "Jack" Barrows gravesite in the Mount Zion Methodist Cemetery located 7 miles east of Smithville.





10/1/09

John Jacob Young CSA 1812-1891


Beth visits the gravesite of her Great Grandparents, buried on the family farm 2 miles east of Smithville, Georgia.  Her Great Grandfather John Jacob Young served in the Confederate Army. 

The graveyard was overgrown. Beth's husband Craig Hullinger beat back the vegetation. Confederate Private Young objected to a Damn Yankee Colonel over his grave site, and dispatched fire teams of numerous fire ants who drove off Hullinger with severe injuries.




















Sisters Serena and Beth

Sisters Beth and Serena Serena Young Windham and Beth Young Smith Ruyle Hullinger were adopted in Georgia. We knew nothin...