By: Ardis E. Parshall - June 08, 2018 James Allen Smith was a man of his time and place. Born in York County, South Carolina, in 1851, he went through the Civil War as a child – and as a child he took up smoking, then learned to chew and spit tobacco, and began to drink. He married and was widowed while still a teenager. And he rode with the Ku Klux Klan. Latter-day Saint missionaries – Angus McKay of Huntsville, Utah, and John M. Ea...
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