Leonidas Marion King (1841-1894) served with the 6th Regiment, N. C. Troops, Confederate States Army. Captain James H. Smith (1832-1906) served with Troop G, 2nd Michigan Cavalry, USA. King and Smith were great-grandfathers of the donor.The collection includes portraits of Leonidas Marion King and Captain James H. Smith in their military uniforms and with their families.
Jean M. Dempsey Photograph Collection
PhC.64.1
circa 1865-1880s
English
Leonidas Marion King (1841-1894) served with the 6th Regiment, N. C. Troops, Confederate States Army. Captain James H. Smith (1832-1906) served with Troop G, 2nd Michigan Cavalry, USA. King and Smith were great-grandfathers of the donor.
The collection includes portraits of Leonidas Marion King and Captain James H. Smith in their military uniforms and with their families.For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Public Services Branch, North Carolina State Archives.
Dempsey, Jean M.
State Archives of North Carolina
The tintypes and snapshots have been placed in a postcard box. Copy negatives have been made for the permanent file.
Available for research.
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Processed by Stephen E. Massengill, August, 1996
Encoded by Stephen E. Massengill
Encoding updated by Aaron Cusick, January, 2012
Leonidas Marion King (1841-1894) served in the 6th Regiment, N. C. Troops, CSA. After the war Smith lived in Raleigh and became superintendent to the Federal Cemetery. He is buried in the cemetery, and his marker contains the dates March 25, 1832-January 1, 1906. His wife was Mary Yates King (1841-1914). Captain James H. Smith (1832-1906) served in Troop G, 2nd Michigan Cavalry, USA. King and Smith were great-grandfathers of the donor.
[Identification of item], PhC.64.1, Jean M. Dempsey Photograph Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, USA.
The photographs were donated to the State Archives by Mrs. Jean M. Dempsey, 1914 Jumpin' Run Drive, Wilmington, North Carolina 28403 on May 13 and July 17, 1996.
Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS) http://mars.archives.ncdcr.gov.
The ninth plate cased images are likenesses of Leonidas Marion King (1841-1894), 6th Regiment, N. C. Troops, CSA and wife Mary Yates King (1841-1914) of Wake County, North Carolina (photos dated July, 1865). The two sixth plate cased images are of Captain James H. Smith (1832-1906), Troop G, 2nd Michigan Cavalry, USA, in uniform. The other two pictures are turn of the century snapshots of Captain Smith and his wife and their son Zeliffe Paul Smith. The collection also contains a copy of Captain Smith's war record copied from Michigan in the War compiled by Jno. Robertson in 1882.