1911
April 7, 1911
Elk Presbytery
Licentiate present - Bee Smith

April 8, 1911
Elk Presbytery
Committee on Examination
As a committee on examination we have had before us Bros. Crawford, Gentry and Smith. Bro. Smith has made progress with his studies being in school at Fayetteville. Bro Crawford and Gentry read essays on subjects assigned them which were approved. We advise that they continue to study & that Bro. Crawford prepare an essay on Acts 3-19, Bro. Gentry Ecclesiastics 12-1, Smith Jno. 3-16.
[Source: Minutes of Elk Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April 7, 1911, page 206]

1911
September 28, 1911
Elk Presbytery
Licentiate present - Bee Smith

Your committee on examination has had before it Bro's., B. Smith, George Gentry & Roy Pylant. We have examined them on their literary studies. Bro's. B. Smith & Roy Pylant have made progress. In their theological studies they all seemed to have made progress.

We want to recommend to them the study of Collinsworth's lectures, Blakes theology & the Confession of Faith of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and compare this with other systems of doctrines.
[Source: Minutes of Elk Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, September 28, 1911, pages 215 & 222]

1912
March 28-29, 1912
Elk Presbytery
Licentiate present - D. B. Smith

Report of the Committee on Examination and Conference
We have had before us, Bee Smith, T. N. Crawford and J. W. Gentry Licentiates. We find that Bro. Smith has made sufficient advancement to entitle him to ordination. Therefore we recommend that he be set apart to the whole work of the Ministry at 11 a.m. today, (March 29, 1912) and that the Rev. C. D. Calvert preach the sermon and Bro. T. M. Hendrix give the charge.

The special order of the hour was the ordination and the laying on of hands of our brother D. B. Smith. Rev. C. D. Calvert preaching the sermon from, 1st Cor. 15th Chapter, 58 verse. "Wherefore my beloved brethren be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as ye know that your labor is not in vain." After a very impressive sermon, the ordinating prayer and laying on of hands and Charge was said by Rev. T. M. Hendrix. After which all joined in a good old fashion hand shake.
[Source: Minutes of Elk Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, March 28, 1912, pages 229, 231 & 233]

Rev. D. B. Smith, of Petersburg, Tennessee, died at his home October 22. Brother Smith was stated clerk of Elk Presbytery and was the father of Rev. John Stammer Smith, pastor at Maryville, Tennessee.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, October 14, 1948, page 12]

[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1949, page 131]