Benjamin Zachariah Smoak (1834)
1834-1897
Son of Jacob (1813) and Mary H. (Rush) Smoak 

Born:    12 Jul 1834, Orangeburg, SC
Died:    30 May 1897  
Buried:  Edisto Baptist Church Cemetery, Cope, SC (near Cordova, SC)
         For more burial information, see below.
Note:    Headstone is "Smoak"; footstone is "Smoke".
 

Genealogy start.

Spouse:  Rachel R. Huffman Smoak  More
              Born:     21 Jan 1836
              Died:     16 Jun 1896
              Married:  11 May 1855
              Buried:   Edisto Baptist Church Cemetery, Cope, SC (near Cordova, SC)
Children:
Mary Jane
B: 22 May 1856; D: 13 Sep 1859
Sarah Rebecca "Sally"
B: 2 Jun 1857; D: 1 Feb 1930
Spouse: Morgan Daniel Gray
Emily C.
B: 7 Mar 1860; D: 7 Jun 1890
Spouse: ?
Ida F.
B: 21 Mar 1862; D: 31 Aug 1904 
Spouse: T. D. Williams
William Capers
B: 20 (29?)Apr 1865; D: 21 Oct 1941
Spouse: Lorena Bonnett
Infant Daughter Leila Geneva:
John Charley
B: 22 May 1867
D: 25 Apr 1869
Essie Ann
B: 20 Oct 1869; D: 27 Apr 1930
Spouse: John Miles Brickle
Lula E. (twin of Lila)
B: 13 Mar 1872; D: 3 Sep 1936
Spouse: None
Lila N. (twin of Lula)
B: 13 Mar 1872; D: 28 May 1872
Jacob Harley (twin of 2nd John Charley)
B: 31 Aug 1874; D: 2 Feb 1926
Spouse: Ella Viola Edwards
John Charley (twin of Jacob Harley)
B: 31 Aug 1874; D: 23 Oct 1937
Spouse: Annie Lucretia Mixson
Martha Jane (twin of Mary Ann)
B: 27 Jan 1877; D: 31 Oct 1941
Spouse: Willis Henry Dempsey
Mary Ann (twin of Martha Jane)
B: 27 Jan 1877; D: 18 May 1921
Spouse: William D. Hunt
Thomas Benjamin
B: 30 Apr 1879; D: 12 May 1948
Spouse: Enora Noley Bonnett
 
Smoak
  Ancestry: 
1-Jacob Smoak (B: 1813; D: ?) 2-William Smoak (B: 1784; D: 1882)
3-Andrew Smoke (B: 1755; D: 1834/35) 4-Johann Georg Rauch (B: 1720; D: 1773)
5-Johann Daniel Rauch (B: 1676; D: 1752) 6-Hans Peter Rauch
(B: Est. 1625-1654; M: 1674; D: Est. 1677-1717)
7-Reichardt Rauch (B: 1604; D: 1685-94) 8-Peter Rauch (B: 1553-82; D: 1603-45))
9-Wendel Rauch (B: 1500's; D: 1603/04)