Smith, Robert Ousley, 1860-1925
Person
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Robert Ousley Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: 1972-0358M
Scope and Contents
This collection includes several diaries and hundreds of poems by Robert Smith, a north Georgia evangelist minister and poet who published at least one book but lived a relatively obscure life. The diaries and other compositions document family relations, religious affairs, the doings of Methodist clergy, and some race relations in several localities, including Clarke County, Hall County, and Atlanta, Georgia. Notebooks give recipes for various concoctions, including medicine. ...
Dates:
1877-1924, 1986, and n.d.