Biography:

Writer, photographer, businessman. Born– Biloxi, Miss. February 25, 1926; reared in Demopolis, Ala., at family home, Bluff Hall; lived later in Prattville, Ala. Parents– Charles Singleton Smith and Bertha Broun Smith. Married– Jule Barnes, 1946.  Children– Four. Education– attended Huntingdon College; studied writing at University of Alabama under Hudson Strode and Edwin Kimbrough. Reporter for Montgomery Advertiser in late 1940s; assistant publicity director for State of Alabama; owned building materials business in Prattville which burned in 1958; he and wife ran Beaux-Arts Studios. Died July 25, 2009.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service; obituary, Montgomery Advertiser, July 27, 2009.

Publication(s):

Majestic Middle Tennessee. Prattville, Ala.; Paddle Wheel Publications, 1975.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Majesty of Natchez. Montgomery, Ala.; Paddle Wheel Publications, 1969.