Lowndesboro in Lowndes County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)

Lewis-Smith Historic Cemetery

Lowndes County

Photographed by Mark Hilton, May 2, 2024

1. Lewis-Smith Historic Cemetery Marker

Inscription.
Frances Lewis II (1768-1837), a planter, was the first soul to be interred in this family cemetery. Lewis was born a British subject in the Colony of Virginia and migrated to Alabama in the 1820s. The fathers of both Frances Lewis II and his wife, Mary Dixon Hall Lewis (c. 1783-1870), fought in the Revolutionary War. Their daughter, Caroline Elizabeth Lewis Smith (1818-1893) married prominent physician Dr. Hartwell Vick Smith (1806-1878) in the mid-1830s. The respected Lewis and Smith families settled in Lowndesboro where they farmed, reared their families, established businesses and churches, practiced medicine, legislated, and founded educational institutions. Many of their descendants continue to live in the area.

Listed in the Alabama Cemetery Register on August 20, 2021

Erected 2022 by Family of Watkins Johnston.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Revolutionary. A significant historical date for this entry is August 20, 2021.

Location. 32° 16.311′ N, 86° 36.639′ W. Marker is in Lowndesboro, Alabama, in Lowndes County. It is at the intersection

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of South Broad Street (County Road 29) and Cross Lane, on the right when traveling north on South Broad Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 500 S Broad St, Lowndesboro AL 36752, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Alabama’s Tri-Counties River Region.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Deep South,

and in the Black Belt.

Globally, it is in North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Lewis-Smith Cemetery (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Lowndesboro (approx. half a mile away); Lowndesboro, Alabama / Lowndesboro Business District (approx. 0.6 miles away); History of the Lowndesboro School (approx. 0.8 miles away); CME Church (approx. 0.8 miles away); First Missionary Baptist Church of Lowndesboro

Photographed by Mark Hilton, May 2, 2024

2. Lewis-Smith Historic Cemetery Marker

Cemetery is 300 ft east of the marker. Please respect the private land.

(approx. one mile away); Our Confederate Soldiers (approx. one mile away); Elmore Bolling (approx. 1.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Lowndesboro.

Lewis-Smith Historic Cemetery image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Hilton, May 2, 2024

3. Lewis-Smith Historic Cemetery

Photographed by Mark Hilton, May 2, 2024

4. Lewis-Smith Historic Cemetery Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on May 2, 2024. It was originally submitted on May 2, 2024, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama. This page has been viewed 346 times since then and 38 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on May 2, 2024, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.