Bridgers Smelley was the son of Moses and Ann Smelley; grandson of Robert Smelley Jr. and Rebecca West Smelley.
He married first to Clary Perkins in Nash County, N.C., on Jan. 25, 1825, and they had 4 children before moving to Georgia:
1. Moses Smelley, born 4 MAY 1827
2. Sarah Caroline Smelley, born 18 OCT 1828 (married John F.M. Tyler)
3. James Raiford Smelley born 4 NOV 1829 (married Cynthia W. Tyler)
4.John Calvin Smelley, born 9 DEC 1834 in North Carolina
Clary Smelley died in Lula, Hall County, Georgia between 1850-60 and he married his second wife Caroline Motes who was the mother of two children.
The family moved from Georgia to Talladega County, Alabama, in 1860-61.
Bridgers Smelley died after 1880 and before 1885. His wife Caroline Motes is said to be buried beside him under a large cedar tree.
The Smelley family cemetery is located among ancient cedar trees behind the Bridgers Smelley home and across the road from John C. Smelley's home, about a msouthwest of Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery on Germany Mountain Road. The Bridgers Smelley home was still standing in 2002. The grave stones are unreadable rocks and deep indentions mark two graves where they have sunken, supposed to be Mr. and Mrs. Bridgers Smelley's graves. It is possible his daughter-in-law Mary Hawkins Smelley is buried there, since she lived directly across the road, though it is generally thought she was buried at Mt. Vernon Cemetery (aka "Smelley-Ponder Cemetery") where her husband was later buried although Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery was just a mile away.
Dictionary of Talladega County Place Names by James Benjamin McMillan, p.133.
Smelley: Locale around the ancestral home...4.5 mi e of Rendalia in the Germany Mtns, nwS36 T19 R5.
1881-94 Post Office (ref., Our Mountain Home, 10 Jan 1886, p.3; USGS Map (Talladega Sheet, 1887-88 [1892]); also 1975 Talladega National Forestry Map).
Smelley Creek: Tributary joining Emauhee Creek 2.5 miles east of Rendalia, swS10 T19 R5, rising in S12 T19 R5 in the Germany Mtns. 1943 USGS Map (Talladega 15' Quad).
Smelley Family Tree:
1 William Smelley, died 1689-92 Isle of Wight Co., Virginia
+ Eleanor (Darden?) (married 2nd Thomas Giles)
2 Robert Smelley
+ Eleanor Giles, dau of Thomas Giles & 1st wife
3 Robert Smelley II
+ Rebecca West
4 Moses Smelley
+ "Ann Bridgers Drury"
5 Bridgers Smelley died in Talladega Co., AL
+1 Clary Perkins
+2 Caroline Motes)
West lineage:
1. Thomas West, 8th Baron de la Warr
+Eleanor Copley
2. Leonard West 1515-78
+Barbara Gascoigne
3. John West 1535-1600
+Mary Throckmorton
4. Nicholas West 1551-1601
+Anne West 1555-95
5. Richard West 1579-1643
+ Maudlin Cooke
6. John West 1620-60
+Sarah West 1622-60
7. William West 1645-1707
+Rebecca Braswell 1647-1700 dau of Rev. Robert Braswell & Rebecca Izard
8. Richard West 1695-1747
+ Ann Gray, dau of John Gray & Ann Everett
9. Rebecca West 1720-1748
+Robert Smelley
He married first to Clary Perkins in Nash County, N.C., on Jan. 25, 1825, and they had 4 children before moving to Georgia:
1. Moses Smelley, born 4 MAY 1827
2. Sarah Caroline Smelley, born 18 OCT 1828 (married John F.M. Tyler)
3. James Raiford Smelley born 4 NOV 1829 (married Cynthia W. Tyler)
4.John Calvin Smelley, born 9 DEC 1834 in North Carolina
Clary Smelley died in Lula, Hall County, Georgia between 1850-60 and he married his second wife Caroline Motes who was the mother of two children.
The family moved from Georgia to Talladega County, Alabama, in 1860-61.
Bridgers Smelley died after 1880 and before 1885. His wife Caroline Motes is said to be buried beside him under a large cedar tree.
The Smelley family cemetery is located among ancient cedar trees behind the Bridgers Smelley home and across the road from John C. Smelley's home, about a msouthwest of Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery on Germany Mountain Road. The Bridgers Smelley home was still standing in 2002. The grave stones are unreadable rocks and deep indentions mark two graves where they have sunken, supposed to be Mr. and Mrs. Bridgers Smelley's graves. It is possible his daughter-in-law Mary Hawkins Smelley is buried there, since she lived directly across the road, though it is generally thought she was buried at Mt. Vernon Cemetery (aka "Smelley-Ponder Cemetery") where her husband was later buried although Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery was just a mile away.
Dictionary of Talladega County Place Names by James Benjamin McMillan, p.133.
Smelley: Locale around the ancestral home...4.5 mi e of Rendalia in the Germany Mtns, nwS36 T19 R5.
1881-94 Post Office (ref., Our Mountain Home, 10 Jan 1886, p.3; USGS Map (Talladega Sheet, 1887-88 [1892]); also 1975 Talladega National Forestry Map).
Smelley Creek: Tributary joining Emauhee Creek 2.5 miles east of Rendalia, swS10 T19 R5, rising in S12 T19 R5 in the Germany Mtns. 1943 USGS Map (Talladega 15' Quad).
Smelley Family Tree:
1 William Smelley, died 1689-92 Isle of Wight Co., Virginia
+ Eleanor (Darden?) (married 2nd Thomas Giles)
2 Robert Smelley
+ Eleanor Giles, dau of Thomas Giles & 1st wife
3 Robert Smelley II
+ Rebecca West
4 Moses Smelley
+ "Ann Bridgers Drury"
5 Bridgers Smelley died in Talladega Co., AL
+1 Clary Perkins
+2 Caroline Motes)
West lineage:
1. Thomas West, 8th Baron de la Warr
+Eleanor Copley
2. Leonard West 1515-78
+Barbara Gascoigne
3. John West 1535-1600
+Mary Throckmorton
4. Nicholas West 1551-1601
+Anne West 1555-95
5. Richard West 1579-1643
+ Maudlin Cooke
6. John West 1620-60
+Sarah West 1622-60
7. William West 1645-1707
+Rebecca Braswell 1647-1700 dau of Rev. Robert Braswell & Rebecca Izard
8. Richard West 1695-1747
+ Ann Gray, dau of John Gray & Ann Everett
9. Rebecca West 1720-1748
+Robert Smelley
Bridgers Smelley was the son of Moses and Ann Smelley; grandson of Robert Smelley Jr. and Rebecca West Smelley.
He married first to Clary Perkins in Nash County, N.C., on Jan. 25, 1825, and they had 4 children before moving to Georgia:
1. Moses Smelley, born 4 MAY 1827
2. Sarah Caroline Smelley, born 18 OCT 1828 (married John F.M. Tyler)
3. James Raiford Smelley born 4 NOV 1829 (married Cynthia W. Tyler)
4.John Calvin Smelley, born 9 DEC 1834 in North Carolina
Clary Smelley died in Lula, Hall County, Georgia between 1850-60 and he married his second wife Caroline Motes who was the mother of two children.
The family moved from Georgia to Talladega County, Alabama, in 1860-61.
Bridgers Smelley died after 1880 and before 1885. His wife Caroline Motes is said to be buried beside him under a large cedar tree.
The Smelley family cemetery is located among ancient cedar trees behind the Bridgers Smelley home and across the road from John C. Smelley's home, about a msouthwest of Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery on Germany Mountain Road. The Bridgers Smelley home was still standing in 2002. The grave stones are unreadable rocks and deep indentions mark two graves where they have sunken, supposed to be Mr. and Mrs. Bridgers Smelley's graves. It is possible his daughter-in-law Mary Hawkins Smelley is buried there, since she lived directly across the road, though it is generally thought she was buried at Mt. Vernon Cemetery (aka "Smelley-Ponder Cemetery") where her husband was later buried although Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery was just a mile away.
Dictionary of Talladega County Place Names by James Benjamin McMillan, p.133.
Smelley: Locale around the ancestral home...4.5 mi e of Rendalia in the Germany Mtns, nwS36 T19 R5.
1881-94 Post Office (ref., Our Mountain Home, 10 Jan 1886, p.3; USGS Map (Talladega Sheet, 1887-88 [1892]); also 1975 Talladega National Forestry Map).
Smelley Creek: Tributary joining Emauhee Creek 2.5 miles east of Rendalia, swS10 T19 R5, rising in S12 T19 R5 in the Germany Mtns. 1943 USGS Map (Talladega 15' Quad).
Smelley Family Tree:
1 William Smelley, died 1689-92 Isle of Wight Co., Virginia
+ Eleanor (Darden?) (married 2nd Thomas Giles)
2 Robert Smelley
+ Eleanor Giles, dau of Thomas Giles & 1st wife
3 Robert Smelley II
+ Rebecca West
4 Moses Smelley
+ "Ann Bridgers Drury"
5 Bridgers Smelley died in Talladega Co., AL
+1 Clary Perkins
+2 Caroline Motes)
West lineage:
1. Thomas West, 8th Baron de la Warr
+Eleanor Copley
2. Leonard West 1515-78
+Barbara Gascoigne
3. John West 1535-1600
+Mary Throckmorton
4. Nicholas West 1551-1601
+Anne West 1555-95
5. Richard West 1579-1643
+ Maudlin Cooke
6. John West 1620-60
+Sarah West 1622-60
7. William West 1645-1707
+Rebecca Braswell 1647-1700 dau of Rev. Robert Braswell & Rebecca Izard
8. Richard West 1695-1747
+ Ann Gray, dau of John Gray & Ann Everett
9. Rebecca West 1720-1748
+Robert Smelley
He married first to Clary Perkins in Nash County, N.C., on Jan. 25, 1825, and they had 4 children before moving to Georgia:
1. Moses Smelley, born 4 MAY 1827
2. Sarah Caroline Smelley, born 18 OCT 1828 (married John F.M. Tyler)
3. James Raiford Smelley born 4 NOV 1829 (married Cynthia W. Tyler)
4.John Calvin Smelley, born 9 DEC 1834 in North Carolina
Clary Smelley died in Lula, Hall County, Georgia between 1850-60 and he married his second wife Caroline Motes who was the mother of two children.
The family moved from Georgia to Talladega County, Alabama, in 1860-61.
Bridgers Smelley died after 1880 and before 1885. His wife Caroline Motes is said to be buried beside him under a large cedar tree.
The Smelley family cemetery is located among ancient cedar trees behind the Bridgers Smelley home and across the road from John C. Smelley's home, about a msouthwest of Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery on Germany Mountain Road. The Bridgers Smelley home was still standing in 2002. The grave stones are unreadable rocks and deep indentions mark two graves where they have sunken, supposed to be Mr. and Mrs. Bridgers Smelley's graves. It is possible his daughter-in-law Mary Hawkins Smelley is buried there, since she lived directly across the road, though it is generally thought she was buried at Mt. Vernon Cemetery (aka "Smelley-Ponder Cemetery") where her husband was later buried although Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery was just a mile away.
Dictionary of Talladega County Place Names by James Benjamin McMillan, p.133.
Smelley: Locale around the ancestral home...4.5 mi e of Rendalia in the Germany Mtns, nwS36 T19 R5.
1881-94 Post Office (ref., Our Mountain Home, 10 Jan 1886, p.3; USGS Map (Talladega Sheet, 1887-88 [1892]); also 1975 Talladega National Forestry Map).
Smelley Creek: Tributary joining Emauhee Creek 2.5 miles east of Rendalia, swS10 T19 R5, rising in S12 T19 R5 in the Germany Mtns. 1943 USGS Map (Talladega 15' Quad).
Smelley Family Tree:
1 William Smelley, died 1689-92 Isle of Wight Co., Virginia
+ Eleanor (Darden?) (married 2nd Thomas Giles)
2 Robert Smelley
+ Eleanor Giles, dau of Thomas Giles & 1st wife
3 Robert Smelley II
+ Rebecca West
4 Moses Smelley
+ "Ann Bridgers Drury"
5 Bridgers Smelley died in Talladega Co., AL
+1 Clary Perkins
+2 Caroline Motes)
West lineage:
1. Thomas West, 8th Baron de la Warr
+Eleanor Copley
2. Leonard West 1515-78
+Barbara Gascoigne
3. John West 1535-1600
+Mary Throckmorton
4. Nicholas West 1551-1601
+Anne West 1555-95
5. Richard West 1579-1643
+ Maudlin Cooke
6. John West 1620-60
+Sarah West 1622-60
7. William West 1645-1707
+Rebecca Braswell 1647-1700 dau of Rev. Robert Braswell & Rebecca Izard
8. Richard West 1695-1747
+ Ann Gray, dau of John Gray & Ann Everett
9. Rebecca West 1720-1748
+Robert Smelley
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