BOOK
NAVIGATION
Introduction
Earliest Settlement
The
Mansions of Elk Garden
The Great
Awakening
The Stuart Family
Lead, Salt,
& Cattle
Wealth
Leads to Politics
Addendae
Bibliography
Genealogies
Index
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West Rosedale The Day Before
It Burned
Governor Henry Carter Stuart lived here
until his death.
Passing through several hands, in 1945 it was bought by H. C.
Pratt, who raised his family in it.
It remained in that family until it burned during a
lightning storm May 17, 2012.
Full restoration is planned.
The family of Richard Price bought from its
original owners the land to the south of Webb Mountain, at Paint
Camp or Paint Lick, and much of the rest of Dry Branch.
William Alexander “Zan” Stuart, Jr., nephew
of Dale and Henry Carter Stuart, ran the Stuart Land and Cattle
Company for the last half of the Twentieth Century, lived in
East Rosedale.
SMITHFIELD
The Smith family of Clifton, and the Stuart family of
Governor Henry Carter Stuart, and the Carter family were
interrelated several times over.
Col. Henry Smith had a son named Henry III (Harry), and
he had a son named Dr. John T. Smith, who
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