Excerpt from Family History of John M. Smith, James Baker and Their DescendantsIn 1839 he bought a negro boy, aged 15 years, named King, paid $800 for him and raised him, and he stayed with him until some time after the war. He was sick a great deal of rheumatism.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.