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Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Smith's TN-AR
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:38:09 -0500
In-Reply-To: <000801c9ae32$344e8a10$2f01a8c0@janice8gji1acl>


Janice, Red Boiling Springs Tn is in North-Central Tn.just south of the border of Ky, East of LaFayette Tn. in what is now Macon Ct Tn.

Later...Joyce

---- janice reed <> wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> I have been over in TN (via computer) for a couple of weeks now trying to find out where we came from. I got on the Smith County website and found a lot of good stuff, Since I know there are a lot of Smith's in AR I thought this might be of some interest.
>
> Nov 29, 1956
> from "Cal's Column" (Tennessee newspapers) transcribed by Tim R. Meador, Jr.
>
> THE SMITH FAMILY
> About 1809 William Smith left NC, to come to TN, traveling over the mountains and along trails and roads hewn out of the forests, in covered wagons. His family, consisting of his wife and nine children, came with the caravan. They were supposed to ride in the wagons, but tradition goes that they walked by the wagons most of the way. The caravan settled in Smith County, near Carthage, where they remained for some years.
> The children of William Smith and his wife, who was a Miss Morley or Worley or Marley, were:
> [1] Archibald Smith, in War of 1812, in New Orleans with Andrew Jackson
> [2] James Daniel Smith, was born in Chatham Co., NC on Aug 6, 1792; he settled on Peyton's Creek; he enlisted in the Army under Andrew Jackson, and was in the battle of New Orleans on Jan 8, 1815, and that he returned shortly afterward to Smith Co. TN and resumed his occupation of farming.
> [3] Betsy Burton (Smith?)
> [4] Sally Davis (Smith?)
> [5] Macon Smith
> [6] Coleman Smith
> [7] William Smith
> [8] Jesse Smith
> [9] Randall Smith
> Later William Smith and family moved near Pleasant Shade, also in Smith Co. Here they built a church.
> {# 9 the only one connected to AR}
> Randall Smith was born in North Carolina. He married Sarah Mitchell in Smith Co. possibly in 1828. The children of Randall and Sarah Mitchell Smith were:
> Polly, born 1826; William Allen Smith, born 1828; Elizabeth Smith, born 1831; Macon Smith, born in 1822; Sarah Ann Smith, born in 1835; Matilda Smith, born in 1837, married Charles Smith and moved to Arkansas; James Daniel Smith, born in 1839, became a doctor, moved to Benton, IL; Emaline Smith, born in 1840; John Smith, born in 1842; Lucinda Smith, 1846; Eliza Smith, 1848; Henry Smith, 1851, later moved to Benton, IL; Jesse Thomas Smith, born in 1853, a preacher in Arkansas; children, Sarah, James and Betty.
> Sarah Mitchell Smith died in the spring of 1863 and was buried at Walnut Shade.
> In 1870 Randall moved westward, taking with him some of his younger children, the older ones having established homes of their own. In Arkansas he married Jemima Sneed and had four children; Miranda, George, Willis and Wiseman.
> Randall died in 1889 in the 84th year of his age and is buried in Fulton County, AR, three miles northeast of Elizabeth, AR.
> John Smith, son of Randall and Sarah, was born in 1842 in what is now Macon Co, TN. When the Civil War broke out the family was divided in their sympathies. Taking the advice of his father, John joined the Union Army. He served throughout the war with a friend, Thomas Shepherd, only brother of Mary Elizabeth Shepherd. He was honorably dischared from the Army Aug 17, 1865 and married Mary Elizabeth in the fall.
> John and his brother, Daniel, studied medicine and became doctors, Daniel going to Benton, IL, and John practicing medicine in the territory around Red Boiling Springs.
> Mary Elizabeth Smith died June 19, 1907. John died Dec. 28, 1924. They are buried at Bethany, about four miles NW of Red Boiling Springs.
> The children of John and Mary Elizabeth Smith were:
> William Allen; Jesse Thomas Smith, physician, Gamaliel, KY, still living; John Rodman Smith, married Sarah Rhodes and lived for some time at Red Boiling Springs. Now dead and buried at Bethany; Florence Smith, died in infancy; James Henry Smith, died in infancy; Margaret Lolamontis Smith, married Hugh S. Jordan, died without issue; Lucinda Pochahontas Smith, married Shade Chitwood, three sons having been born to them; Hattie Elizabeth Smith, married E. H. York; Randall Jefferson Smith, died in infancy; Samuel Hugh Smith, lived at Red Boiling Springs for a long time; Adolphus Greely Smith, went to Benton, IL; Jewel Smith, married Joe Henderson in Arkansas.
>
> NOTE: from me - does anyone know where Red Boiling Springs is? And was John the "old" Dr. Smith I've heard so much about????
> Janice Reed
>
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