Career
He was the preacher of Occoquan (also known as Bacon Race to those outside the membership of those associated with Elder Smoot) and Quantico Baptist churches from 1888 to 1938. Elder Smoot was a prolific writer of religious tracts setting forth the true order of predestination, election, total depravity of all humans in their natural state, with GOD"s elect children being called in the Spiritual birth while they lived upon this earth, and their sanctification and preservation are eternal. Including several books and pamphlets, and a monthly newsletter he printed himself on a press set up in his home in Occoquan.
In 1904 Elder Smoot also published a collection of 698 hymns, called "The Sectarian Hymnal".
Elder 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.