William Smoot
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William M. Smoot (c. 1848-1938) was a resident of Occoquan, Virginia and for many years was a leading Predestinarian Old School Primitive Baptist preacher in Prince William County. He was the preacher of Occoquan (also known as Bacon Race to those outside the membership of those associated with Smoot) and Quantico Baptist churches from 1888 to 1938. Smoot, whose followers were known locally as "Smootites", engaged in a heated rivalry over doctrine and practice as set forth in the Bible with the reverend Thomas D.D. Clark, whose Union Baptist Church was located across the road from the Quantico Baptist Church in the village of Independent Hill.[1]
Smoot was a prolific writer of religious tracts on
Smoot died at his home in 1938 at the age of 90. He was found on his front porch seated in a chair with his Bible in his hand and glasses still on his nose.[citation needed]
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CONTEST OF 1886---1889 BY ELDER WILLIAM MIDDLETON SMOOT