1835 WAS IN CRITTENTON COUNTY KENTUCKY
1835/36 RELOCATED TO SABINE PARISH LOUISIANA
1840 CENSUS SHOWS AGE (50/60)AND SHE OWNED TWO(2) SLAVES NATCHITOCHES
PARISH LOUISIANA PAGE 170
1850 CENSUS LIVING WITH DAUGHTER KESIAH BYLES(BILES) AND WAS 70 YEARS OLD.
1835 SHE WAS IN MUHLENBURG CO NOT CRITTENTON CO KY-ALL CHILDREN(12) BORN
IN MUHLENBURG CO KY. Children were:
i. Etheldred
Smith was born about 1797 in Wayne Co, NC. He died before 1840 in Natchitoches
Parish, La.
ii.
Mary "Polly" Smith was born about 1799 in Wayne Co, NC. She died
before 1870 in Louisiana.
iii.
Charity "Chely" Smith was born on 21 Apr 1800 in Wayne Co, NC.
She died on 27 Feb 1840 in Louisiana.
iv.
Major James Smith was born on 18 Mar 1801 in Wayne Co, NC. He died on 28
Dec 1880 in Hope, Tx (Lavaca Co). Major Smith listed as validating land claims
NP 1819; listed in first
Texas
Census 1836, Tenaha District; listed 1840, census of the Republic of
Texas;
listed Sabine Co Tx Censuses 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880; Applied for pension
Nov 1874, served in Army of the Republic of Tx 1832/1836.
v. Edmond
Smith was born about 1803 in Muhlenburg Co, Ky. He was christened in 1835
in CRITTENDEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY. He was buried in 1836 in SABINE PARISH, LOUISIANA.
He was baptized in 1840 in CENSUS 1840=OWNED 12 SLAVES. He was confirmed in
AND HAD 2 SONS AND 3 DAUGHTERS. 1840 CENSUS NATCHITOCHES PARISH, PAGE 153
SHOWS EDMOND AGE BETWEEN 30/40, MALES 1 (5/10), FEMALES 1 (20/30), 1
(10/15, 1 (5/10) AND 1 (0/5).
vi.
Thomas Smith was born about 1804 in Muhlenburg Co, Ky. He died in died young.
16 vii.
Eli Smith.
viii.
Charlotte Smith was born about 1808 in Muhlenburg Co, Ky. She died in Louisiana.
ix.
Louisa Smith was born about 1809 in Muhlenburg Co, Ky.
x. William
Smith was born on 30 May 1812 in Muhlenburg Co, Ky. He was christened in
1835 in CRITTENDEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY. He was buried in 1836 in SABINE PARISH,
LOUISIANA. He was baptized in 1840 in CENSUS 1840=OWNED 16 SLAVES AND. He died
on 24 Jul 1859 in Natchitoches Parish, La. He was confirmed in HAD 2 DAUGHTERS.
1840 CENSUS NATCHITOCHES PARISH LOUISIANA PAGE 170 SHOWS WILLIAM 20/30
AGE AND FEMALES 1 (20/30), 2 (0/5), COLORED FREE FEMALES 1 (30/40), 1
(20/30) AND SLAVES 1 (10/24).
William purchased Smith land in La from his mother and siblings in 1838.
See
Deed of Sale my files
Lived in the Coushatta Chute area, Natchitoches Parish, west of Robeline,
in
vicinity of Central Baptist Church.
Obiturary notice in The New Orleans Christian Advocate, Vol IX, #37, 12
Oct 1859:
His autobiography submitted by William A. Smith is quoted from below:
I (William Smith) was born in Muhlenberg Co, Kentucky, 30 May 1912, moved
with my parents to Louisiana in 1817 and located in Natchitoches Parish,
La.
I buried my father 23 Oct 1825, and my mother was left with numerous
children.
She died 12 January 1852. Names of preachers and friends: Rev. Daniel
Watkins, Rev P. P. Mathews, Rev. Riichard Overby, and Bros. Daniel Brown,
Thomas Brown, Jonathan Sproul, Hampton Turner, Dr. McAllen and Rev W. A.
Smith.
xi.
George Jackson Smith was born about 1815 in Muhlenburg Co, Ky. He died before
1838 in Louisiana. Listed in legal documents in Natchitoches Parish, La as age
18 in 1833,
apparently not alive 2 May 1938, when William Smith purchases Smith
land from his mother Keziah Smith, brothers Etheldred, Major, Edmond,
Eli, and sisters Charity, Mary {Standley?}, Charlotte, Keziah Biles. Why
is Elvira Thibodeaux not named in those legal proceedings? Did she not
sell her portion of Smith land?
xii.
Kesiah "Cuzzie" Smith was born on 15 Mar 1816 in Criddenden Co,
Ky. She died on 21 Nov 1881 in Sabine Parish, La. Married 2nd Robert A. Forbis
before 1860; separated by 1865. Robert A
Forbis probably married again subsequently.
Buried Old Blackwell Hill, near Many, La(Sabine Parish)
xiii.
Elvira Smith was born about 1817 in Natchitoches Parish, La. She died before
1870 in Louisiana.
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