Smith, O’brien

Smith, O’brien, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Ireland about 1756; came to South Carolina just after the close of the Revolutionary War, taking the oath of allegiance to the Government of the United States July 31, 1784; member of the State assembly in 1796; served in the State senate in 1803; elected to the Ninth Congress (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1807); died April 27, 1811; interment in the burial ground of the colonial Chapel of Ease of St. Bartholomew’s Parish, Colleton County, S.C., later in ruins and then called "the Burnt Church," near Jacksonboro, S.C.