Lewis Atley "Lew" Smith, 1875-1940, Va.-Ohio-Montana Lewis Atley Smith was born in 1875 to Eugene B. Smith and Charlotte Alice Purcell Smith of Frederick County, Va. Lewis Atley Smith was a grandson of John F. Smith and a great grandson of Lewis F. Smith.
Lewis Atley Smith married Izola May Carter in 1900. They had three sons, Carter Eugene Smith, George Elwell Smith, and James Simpson Smith. Lewis and Izola divorced abt. 1917 and he later married Mrs. Amelia Wiedman Fergus, a widow, in Montana. They had no children.
"Lew" Smith ran a trading post on the Fort Belknap (Assiniboine and Gros Ventre) reservation near Harlem, Montana from about 1907-1910. In 1911 the family moved to Stanford, Montana, where he helped organize the Basin State Bank, and in 1913 they moved to Hobson, Montana, where again he was a banker. Then, after the divorce, Lewis Atley Smith moved with his sons Carter and George to Lewistown, Montana, where he became Undersheriff. He also served on the city council and was employed in the tax collector's office and in the federal land bank. He married Mrs. Amelia Wiedman Fergus, widow of William Fergus, in 1920, and lived with her at her home on West Broadway until his death. He died of a heart attack in 1940 and is buried in the Lewistown City Cemetery.
young Lewis Atley Smith, c. 1900?
and in 1932