Bishop A. D. (Alexander Coke) Smith

   Cause of his death was Tuberculosis.

  General Notes:

The 1880 Federal Census for Norfolk, Va. (ED#68, page 292B) records what appears to be L. D. (26) Smith married to Kate (25) with daughter Mary (1 6/12). The 1900 census should be checked to verify this is the family for Alice, wife of Charles Doughtie.

The 1900 Federal Census for Norfolk, Va. (ED#96, page 220A) records Alexander Smith (Aug 1849) with wife Kate K. (Aug 1859) and children Mary (Nov 1877), Francis R. (June 1881), Edward E. (Jan 1885), Alice G. (Dec 1889), Isabelle (June 1892), and Kinard (Sept 1894). All members of the family are listed as born in South Carolina. Alexander and Kate have been married 24 years and have had 8 children of which 7 are still living.

Northwestern Christian Advocate, Volume 55
January 16, 1907 - page 4
Bishop A. Coke Smith
In the death of Bishop Alexander Coke Smith the Methodist Eposcopal Church, South, loses one of its sweetest spirits. He was to his church what Biship Ninde was to our own. He was not in rugged health when elected bishop in 1902, yet by ridgid care of his body he was able to render his church and the cause of Christ most valued servicde during his brief term in the episcopacy.
Biship Smith was born in Lynchburg, S. C. September 16, 1849. His parents were Rev. William Hankins Smiuth and Mary Isabell Smith. His boyhood was spent chiefly on a farm and in the country schools. He graduated from Wofford College in 1872 and joined the South Carolina Conference. Ywenty years later he transferred to the Virginia Conference. In 1886 he became professor of mental and moral philosophy in Wofford. He was e;ected assitant missionary secretary in 1890, but resigned resigned shortly afterwards to accept the chair of practical theology in Vanderbuilt University. He returned to pastorial work in 1892, and for ten years served prominent charges in Virginia, until his election to the bishopric in 1902. He was a member of the Centenial Conference in Baltimore in 1884, and of the four general conferences of his church from 1890 to his election. He was also a member of the Ecumenical Conference in Wawshington in 1891, where he read a paper on "Christian co-operation", and also of the Conference of London in 1901. He was fraternal delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada in 1898. No member of his church was more beloved by his own people or more highly esteemed by other churches.


GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS FROM REPORTED DEATHS
THE NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1905-1907
January 4, 1907
Photograph and account regarding the demise of Bishop ALEXANDER COKE SMITH, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who died in Asheville, N.C., Dec. 27, 1906. He was born in S.C., August 16, 1849; elected to the episcopacy in 1902; cause of death, tuberculosis. (Page 1.) A tribute to his memory written by O. P. Fitzgerald appeared on page 19.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Methodist Minister and Bishop/ Minister (1900).

• Education: Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.

A. married Katherine (Kate) Kinard, daughter of Henry Harrison Kinard and Louisa Counts, circa 1876. (Katherine (Kate) Kinard was born on 17 Aug 1857 in Newberry, Newberry Co, S.C, died on 2 May 1946 in Norfolk City, Virginia and was buried on 4 May 1946 in Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, VA.) The cause of her death was Coronary Thrombosis.