Marion Pinkney Smithson

In 1860 he was a 35 (43) year old farmer near Pikeville in Marion County, AL. He enlisted at Columbus, MS as a Private in Company C, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 19 July 1861. He was slightly wounded at Williamsburg, VA on 5 May 1862.

He was wounded again, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was in hospitals in Staunton and Richmond, VA and furloughed for 30 days on 7 October 1862. He never rejoined his Company and was listed as a deserter by April 1864 with no later military record.

There was an M.P. Smithson in Company H of the 5th Alabama Cavalry to at least March 1864, so he may have served with them afterward.

He went to Utah in 1869 and was a farm worker at Centerville in Davis County in 1870. By 1880 he was at Antelope in Millard County, UT. He owned and operated the Smithson Hotel in Milford, UT from about 1880. In 1900 he was living in Milford with daughters Susan (Susanah) A and Kate M (Mariah Catherine) and in 1910 farmed with Kate in Star, UT.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910.

He married Olivia Maria Holladay (1828-1893) in January 1842 and they had 12 children.

In 1900 the Census enumerator noted

These people are Christian Scientists in Religious belief and this [bades?] them to destroy all records therefore they Plead Ignorance of Birth Death or any other Records consequently I was unable to secure any answers.

12/25/1817; Monroe County, MS

03/15/1912; Milford, UT; burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, UT