Isaac Smith and Family of Alabama: Genealogy, documents and timeline for this Smith family

Smith Family: Third Generation

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Generation No. 3

1. ELIZABETH L.3 SMITH (ISAAC2, ROBERT1) was born 25 Feb 1803 in Clarendon County, Camden District, South Carolina, USA, and died Bet. 07 Sep 1825 - 1840 in Lowndes County, Alabama, USA. She married JOAB STEWART 22 Oct 1819 in Dallas County, Alabama. He was born Circa 1796, and died Bet. 01 - 30 Sep 1845 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA.

Elizabeth was called Eliza by her family. She was 16 years old when she married Joab Stewart.
There is a paragraph in a memorial written about Eliza's daughter, Elizabeth Jane, that suggests Eliza died during or shortly after that child's birth, although I have found nothing else to prove it yet:
"Grandfather Joab Steward, her [Elizabeth Jane's] father, was a consecrated christian and a well-to-do citizen. He loved her with puculiar tenderness, because she was the babe of his deceased wife."

From the book entitled "Gone to Georgia" By William C. Stewart, National Genealogical Society Number 30, Washington, D.C. , 1965 (reprinted 1979):
"One John Stewart was killed May 8, 1786 by Indians at his home near the Big Shoal of Oconee in the lower end of Franklin County, now in Clarke County [Georgia], according to George Edson, the Stewart historian. John had a son George, born c1760, who was dead by Oct. 5, 1807, (his brother) John and Mary Stewart acting as administrators and Joab Stewart a purchaser at the sale of his effects. John also had son Charles, who married Rachel Freeman in 1801 and died 1809 in Clarke County, and son John Jr., who married Mary?, and died 1829 in Wilkes County. The 1799 Jackson County tax list mentioned that Thomas Cheldros owned 200 acres originally granted to George Stewart on Crooked Creek. A George W Stewart married Sara B. Brooks June10, 1829, in Oglethorpe County, and another George W. Stewart, aged 18, was in 1850 in the home of Fransis M. Kerbour in Jackson County. This George left a Jackson will, probated in 1867."
The preceding account is verified (at least in part) by:
Early Records of Georgia Vol 1 and 2, page 62 --STEWART, GEORGE, dec'd. Sle Oct. 15, 1807. John and Mary Stewart, acting excrs. Mary, John and Joab Stewart purchasers. Wilkes County, Georgia
A note about: Wilkes County was one of the original 1777 counties bordering on South Carolina in east central Georgia. By 1820, it had been reduced in size, no longer bordered South Carolina and was at that time surrounded by Lincoln, Elbert, Oglethorpe, Greene, Warren and Columbia Counties.
Stewart, Joab (not pd. tax) -- given 1 draw for lands in Baldwin: 15 Districts (6-20) and Wilkinson: 23 Districts (6-28) in the Contemplated Land Lottery, Authority: Act of June 26, 1806; Time of Drawing: August 10, 1807 - September 23, 1807. Joab's draw was in Sept 1807.
War of 1812 Service Records - Stewart, Joab 1 Regiment (Harris'), Georgia Militia, Inducted and Discharged as a Private, Roll-box 199, Roll Exct, 602.
In 1830 Isaac Smith and Joab Stewart were next door neighbors in Lowndes County, AL. Joab's wife Elizabeth must have died before 1830. February 27, 1837, Joab Stewart was listed as one of the original members of the Primitive Baptist Church in Youngville (Alexander City, Alabama) along with Isaac Smith, his wife Rebecca Smith also belonged.
On September 2, 1837, the Commissioners of Tallapoosa County appointed J. Lauderdale, J. Jones, R. G. Young, James Young, J. Strickland, B. T. Kimbrough and J. Stewart as a Jury "to view and mark out a road from the Store House (probably the Georgia Store) at Youngville to the Fishpond Old Town (the old Indian Village) and from thence to County line"
Alabama Census, 1840, Stewart, Joab, Fishpond, Tallapoosa Co., AL, pg. 175, No Township Listed, Fed. Pop. Schedule, Database AL 1840 Fed. Census Index, ID# ALS4a2487055
1840 - Census of Tallapoosa County, AL. Page 168 (possibly near Hackneyville, AL), Wm S. Canterbury, J. M. Lauderdale (1 m-5, 1 m-20-30, 1 f 15-20, S. J. (Seaborn Jones) Thomas.

1840
Page Number 175, County Tallapoosa
Isaac Smith, 1 M 5-10, 1 M 10-15, 1 M 15-20, 1 M 50-60, 1 F 50-60.
Joab Stewart, 1 M 50-50, 1 F 10-15, 1 F 15-20
J. Walker, 1 M-5, 1 M 5-10, 2 M 15-20, 1 M 40-50, 1 F -5, 1 F 10-15, 1 F 40-50

An article concerning a KNIFE BOX: This was the property of Mrs. E. P. Duncan's Grandfather, Joab Stewart, who came from Lowndes County to Tallapoosa County, died 1846, aged about 70 years. Buried in Old Fellowship Cemetery, according to Elizabeth (Betty) Jackson Duncan Crowder.
(The Primitive Baptist Church is on Hillabee Road. In 1875 the Church moved from Youngville (corner of North Central Ave. and Washington St.) to a location on Hillabee Road, probably because of the railroad coming in 1872.)

Children of ELIZABETH SMITH and JOAB STEWART are:
i. LOUISA STEWART, b. Bef. 1825, Alabama, USA.
ii. REBECCA ANN STEWART, b. Bef. 1825, Alabama, USA; d. Bef. 1860; m. JAMES MONROE LAUDERDALE, 23 Sep 1838, Tallapoosa County, Alabama; d. Dec 1869.
iii. ELIZABETH JANE STEWART, b. 07 Sep 1825, Benton, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA; d. 13 Jul 1899, Shelby County, Alabama, USA; m. WILLIAM MCBRIDE JACKSON, 04 Sep 1844, Youngsville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama [present day ALEXANDER CITY]; b. 20 Feb 1822, South Carolina or Virginia; d. Buried in the Alexander City Cemetary, Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama.

2. MARY ANN3 SMITH (ISAAC2, ROBERT1)68 was born 15 Jan 1807 in Clarendon County, Camden District, South Carolina, USA, and died Aug 1845 in Youngsville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA. She married JEREMIAH SAMUEL JENNINGS 07 Jul 1825 in Montgomery County, Alabama, USA, son of THOMAS JENNINGS and ELIZABETH ______. He was born Circa 1797 in South Carolina, USA.

Jerry Barrington Smith feels that the Jennings and the Smiths were neighhbors in South Carolina, and that perhaps the two families migrated together though Georgia on into Alabama. Then from Lowndes County to Macon County, Coosa County and finally Tallapoosa County where many of them settled just north of Youngsville.

1820 Alabama State Census
Dallas County
Jennings, Jeremiah 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 (he is living alone, but next door to Thomas Jennings)
Jennings, Thomas 1 3 1 4 9 0 8 17 (I believe this is Jeremiah's father)

According to Jerry Smith Barrington: Jeremiah Jennings appointed Robert Jennings of the Edgefield District in South Carolina his attorney pertaining to the Estate of William Jennings of Suffolk, England.
A William H. Jennings died in Monroe County, Mississippi. Executors of his Estate: sister, Sarah Amanda Jennings and brothers J. S. Jennings [this could be our Jeremiah] and Creed M. Jennings.
All of Isaac's children were very beholden to him, and when he migrated from one place to another, they all followed him. So, Jeremiah Jennings and his wife, Mary Ann, were received by letter into the Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church on Mach 25, 1837 (Youngsville, Tallapoosa County, AL) after following Isaac to Youngsville in Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
Mary Ann Smith Jennings last appears in the census records during the year of 1840. Church records indicate that Mary Ann Jennings died in August 1845.
In 1870, Jeremiah was living with daughter Nancy Lee Harison (she marreid William N. Harrison on November 21, 1865).
Daughter Elizabeth Ann Jennings married John Bailey on Jan. 2, 1846. No evidence, but it is suspected that John Bailey was the brother of Jane Bailey, who married Jeremiah Jennings after the death of Mary Ann on June 14, 1846, Tallapoosa County. This union produced one son, Jerry Sam, born on October 6, 1847. Jane Bailey died in 1848. We also suspect that Elizabeth Ann raised the baby, Jerry Sam, son of Jane Bailey. As an Uncle to Jack Jennings remembers that Jerry Sam got a letter sometime around 1920 or so saying that his sister had died in Houston. Suspect this was the one who raised him, but no evidence.
By 1880, Jeremiah Jennings was living in the home of his youngest daughter, Nancy Lee (Jennings) Harrison, the wife of W. M. Harrison in Chambers County.

Children of MARY SMITH and JEREMIAH JENNINGS are:
i. MARGARET TALLIE JENNINGS, b. Circa 1830, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA; m. THOMAS W. BARNETT.
ii. ROBERT A. JENNINGS, b. Circa 1832, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA.
iii. MARY A. REBECCA JENNINGS, b. Circa 1834, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA; m. JOHN CALDWELL.
iv. ELIZABETH ANN JENNINGS, b. Circa 1837; m. JOHN BAILEY.
v. AMANDA JENNINGS, b. Bef. 1840; d. Bef. 1861.
vi. ELIZA JANE JENNINGS, b. Bef. 1840; m. JACOB COOPER.
vii. HENRY B. JENNINGS, b. Bef. 1840.
viii. ISAAC JENNINGS, b. Bef. 1840; d. Bet. 24 Jul - 08 Aug 1861, Macon County, Alabama.
ix. FRANCES EUGENIA JENNINGS, b. 06 Feb 1840, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA; d. Aft. 1861, Merdian, Bosque County, Texas, USA; m. (1) ALBERT MCKAY; m. (2) LOTT WILLIAMS.
x. NANCY LEE JENNINGS, b. Circa 1842; m. WILLIAM N. HARRISON, 21 Nov 1865.

3. ROBERT W.3 SMITH (ISAAC2, ROBERT1) was born 15 Mar 1809 in Clarendon County, Camden District, South Carolina, USA, and died 12 May 1842 in Coosa County, Alabama, USA. He married SARAH ANN PEARSON 04 Mar 1831 in Lowndes County, Alabama, USA, daughter of JAMES PEARSON and _______ _______. She was born Circa 1807 in Alabama, USA, and died 07 Sep 1888 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA.

Robert W. Smith was an affluent planter in Coosa County, Alabama; but he had a flaw. According to Allen E. Smith (direct descendant through Jasper L. Smith, Jr.) of Roanoak, Virginia, Robert lost much of his wealth through gambling. It is very likley that this is referenced in Robert's Will where he mentions notes in the amount of $350.00, which he claimed to have been fraudulently obtained by one Henry Stewart of Lowndes County. The notes, according to Robert's Will were not to be paid.
On May 5, 1842 Robert wrote the afforementioned Will naming his father, Isaac Smith, and his brother-in-law, Jeremiah Jennings as the Executors for his Last Will and Testament. His brother, Isaac T. Smith, brother-in-law, William Canterberry, and Carter Jackson, educator and father-in-law of one of Isaac's neices, witnessed the Will. It is presumed that Carter Jackson, being related by marriage, was a very close friend to the greater part of the Smith family.
Isaac, his father, left Robert's children with a considerable amount of money when he died, but he also left them with a judgement against Robert:
"NINTH, I will that my executors sell Bob to the highest bidder and divide the proceeds equally between William N. Smith, Jasper L. Smith and Albert Smith. I also bequeath to the heirs of Robert W. Smith a certain debt on judgement against the estate of the said Robert W. Smith now on record in the Probate Court in Coosa County, Alabama in my favor."
Occupation: Bet. 11 Nov 1830 - 24 Dec 1835, Justice of the Peace in Lowndes County, Alabama
Will: 05 May 1842, Coosa County, Alabama

Sarah Ann Pearson, reportedly, descended from the Huguenots, which would have made her line come from French extraction. The French Huguenots immigrated to America fleeing from religious persecution.
Smith family historians have often surmized that Sarah Ann and Mary C. Pearson, the wife of Isaac Thomas Smith, were related or sisters. This consideration is proven in the 1880 Fedreal Census of Coosa County, Alabama pp 176a, where Sarah is living with Mary and listed as not only by her nickname, Sallie, but also as Mary's sister.
Census: 1880, Nixburg, Coosa County, Alabama, USA
Residence: 14 Jun 1860, Mount Olive, Coosa County, Alabama, USA

Robert W. and Sarah were married by a Justice of the Peace who was also named Robert Smith. I wonder if this might have been Robert's grandfather, Robert ~m~ Edy or perhaps an uncle?

Children of ROBERT SMITH and SARAH PEARSON are:
i. WILLIAM N.4 SMITH83, b. 26 Feb 1832, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA; d. 18 Apr 1867, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA; m. MARTHA CORNELIA GILBERT, 25 Sep 1858, Tallapoosa County, Alabama; b. Circa 1840, Georgia, USA; d. Aft. 1870, Alabama, USA.
ii. MARY TEMPERANCE SMITH, b. 04 Jul 1833, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; d. Coosa County, Alabama, USA; m. DAVID DANIEL WHETSTONE, 10 Jan 1849, Coosa County, Alabama; b. 1818, Augusta, Alabama; d. Jefferson County, Alabama.
iii. ELIZABETH SMITH, b. 02 Jun 1835, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; m. WILLIAM MCBRIDE JACKSON; b. 20 Feb 1822, South Carolina or Virginia; d. Buried in the Alexander City Cemetary, Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
iv. JASPER LINCOLN SMITH, SR., b. 13 Jul 1837, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; d. Mar 1901; m. FRANCES ELIZABETH EDEN, 25 Jul 1858, Coosa County, Alabama.
v. SARAH SMITH, b. 01 Dec 1839, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; m. DANIEL WHETSTONE; b. Circa 1835.
vi. ALBERT SMITH, b. 06 Mar 1842, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; d. 21 Sep 1863.

4. ISAAC THOMAS3 SMITH (ISAAC2, ROBERT1)91 was born Aft. Jun 1810 in South Carolina, USA, and died Bet. 1849 - 1850 in Coosa County, Alabama, USA. He married MARY C. PEARSON 18 Sep 1834 in Lowndes County, Alabama, daughter of JAMES PEARSON and _______ _______. She was born Circa 1808 in South Carolina, USA, and died Aft. Jun 1880.

Legal Actions: 02 Apr 1849, James A. Pearson brings a suit against Isaac T. Smith and his father in Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA
Race, slavery, and free Blacks. Series II, Petitions to southern county courts,
1775–1867 [microform] / edited by Loren Schweninger ; assistant
editor, Marguerite Ross Howell.
microfilm reels ; 35 mm. — (Black studies research sources)
Reel 10
PAR Number 20184908
http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/results.aspx?s=3&sid=150
Location: Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Records of the Circuit Court, Minutes and Decrees Chancery Court 1852-1855: Complete Record
Pages: 399-402; 440
Filing Court and Date: Circuit, 1849-April-2
Ending Court and Date: Circuit, 1854-May-0
Related Documents: Promissory Note, Isaac Smith, Isaac T. Smith, to James Pearson, 9 March 1844; Final Decree, May 1854
Abstract: James A. Pearson, an elderly slave owner from Lowndes County, writes that in 1844 he "became embarrassed in his pecuniary affairs" and traveled to Tallapoosa County, to ask his son-in-law, Isaac T. Smith, for a loan. His son-in-law's father, also Isaac Smith, agreed to loan him $196, but asked Pearson to put up as collateral three slaves--January, a blacksmith, and "Sillar a Girl and Jack a boy." When asked to sign a bill of sale for his slaves, Pearson balked, but he later agreed when Isaac T. Smith offered him a promissory note for four hundred dollars signed by father and son. During the next few years, Isaac T. Smith, "disregarding the dictates of honesty and fair dealing," conspired and confederated with his father to defraud Pearson of the labor of his slaves, even when Pearson, his wife, and his daughter moved to Isaac T. Smith's farm and lived with the family. In 1849, Pearson asks that the note be revoked, the bill of sale cancelled, and the slaves returned, as their labor has more than compensated the Smiths for the original loan.
Mary is living next door to her son, Dock Robert Smith, during the 1880 Census. With her is her sister, Sally (Sarah Ann, who is the widow of Robert W. Smith), and her daughter Rebecca. This particular census also confirms that her husband, Isaac Thomas Smith, was born in South Carolina.

Children of ISAAC SMITH and MARY PEARSON are:
i. IRVIN COPE4 SMITH, b. 10 Jul 1838, Alabama, USA; d. 11 Feb 1923, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA; m. MARY LIZA THOMAS, 07 Aug 1864, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; b. 19 Nov 1845; d. 14 Apr 1929.
ii. DAVID M. SMITH, b. 1839; d. Bef. 10 Aug 1863.
iii. JOHN J. SMITH II, b. 1840.
iv. DOCK ROBERT SMITH, b. 15 Mar 1845, Nixburg, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; d. 26 Jan 1925, Winston County, Alabama, USA, USA; m. MARY HENRIETTA CARTER; b. May 1849, Georgia; d. 30 Oct 1933, Bankhead, Walker County, Alabama, USA.
v. REBECCA VESLILIA SMITH, b. 1847, Coosa County, Alabama.
vi. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SMITH II, b. 10 Mar 1849, Coosa County, Alabama; d. 08 Mar 1931, Oklahoma; m. ALABAMA ELIZABETH MAY, 06 May 1873, Coosa County, Alabama.
vii. WADE HAMPTON SMITH, b. 12 Mar 1850, Coosa County, Alabama; d. 15 Apr 1933, Old Lula, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, USA; m. NANCY EMELINE BUZBEE, 17 Feb 1870, Coosa County, Alabama; b. Bet. Mar - Sep 1847, Coosa County, Alabama; d. 30 Aug 1922, Old Lula, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma.

5. ADALINE TEMPERANCE3 SMITH (ISAAC2, ROBERT1) was born 22 Apr 1819 in South Carolina, USA, and died 27 Dec 1912 in Hanover, Coosa County, Alabama, USA. She married (1) WILLIAM B. KIMBROUGH 11 Jul 1837 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. He was born Circa 1817, and died Circa 1855 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA. She married (2) BRISSO O'BRIAN Aft. 1855.

At the time of Isaac Smith's death, Adaline was the only one of his daughters still living. He left her three slaves:
"FIFTH, I give to my [daughter] Adaline T. O'Brien the following slaves; Dosia (or Doriah), John and Margaret, during her lifetime and at her death to go to her youngest daughter, Ella Kimbrough."

Children of ADALINE SMITH and WILLIAM KIMBROUGH are:
i. REBECCA JANE4 KIMBROUGH, b. Apr 1838; m. (1) DANIEL MAURICE WHETSTONE; b. Circa 1845; m. (2) JOHN THRASH, 06 Aug 1856, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA; b. Circa 1835.
ii. BENJAMIN THOMAS KIMBROUGH, b. 1840; d. 1856, Died as a child.
iii. MARY FRANCES KIMBROUGH, b. 1842; d. 1857, Died as a child.
iv. SARAH ELLA KIMBROUGH, b. 25 Apr 1852; d. 20 May 1930, Hanover, Coosa County, Alabama; m. JOHN A. C. STEWART, 04 Dec 1881, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; b. Sep 1850; d. 09 Jun 1917, Rockford, Coosa County, Alabama, USA.

6. CLARA ANN JANE3 SMITH (ISAAC2, ROBERT1) was born Bet. 1820 - 1825 in South Carolina or Georgia, USA, and died Circa 1850 in Alabama, USA. She married WILLIAM S. CANTERBURY 26 Jun 1834 in Lowndes County, Alabama118. He was born Circa 1810, and died Bet. 1850 - 1861.

Children of CLARA SMITH and WILLIAM CANTERBURY are:
i. JOHN W.4 CANTERBERRY, b. Circa 1837; d. Aft. 08 Jul 1861, during the American Civil War.
ii. ISAAC IRWIN CANTERBERRY, b. Circa 1839; d. Bef. 10 Aug 1861.
iii. BENJAMINE F. CANTERBURY, b. Circa 1840.
iv. DIDENA CANTERBERRY, b. Circa 1843.
v. DORA ANN CANTERBERRY, b. 31 Oct 1845, Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama; d. 02 Feb 1882, Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama; m. JOHN THOMAS DARK, 28 Dec 1865, Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama; b. 02 Apr 1844, Meriwether, Baldwin County, Georgia; d. 06 Aug 1874, Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
vi. LOUISA CANTERBERRY, b. Circa 1847.

7. LOUISA E(MMA)3 SMITH (ISAAC2, ROBERT1) was born Bet. 1820 - 1825 in South Carolina or Georgia, USA, and died Circa 1841 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA. She married JAMES A. LOCKWOOD 12 Feb 1834 in Lowndes County, Alabama. He was born 1815 in New York, and died Aft. 1850.

Louisa E. Smith was born in either South Carolina or Georgia between 1811 and 1819. Due to the constant movements of her parents during the time of her birth, we may never know exactly when or where she was born, unless one of her own descendants come forward with some sort of documentation like a Bible record or perhaps a diary.
Louisa's middle name was probably Emma, Emily or Emaline. I came to this conclusion when I received an extract from a letter written by one of her nieces:

"Aunt Em and I would go out to gather pecans, black walnuts and hickory nuts, we called those hickker nuts. Louisa Em married James Lockwood in 1834. Most of the family called her Luezor, but to me, she was always Aunt Em.”

Louisa married JAMES A. LOCKWOOD 12 Feb 1834 in Lowndes County, Alabama.
Louisa bore to James five children, but we believe one of them died extremely young, which is why James only took four children with him to Arkansas. Their children are; Edwin Cornelius Lockwood, William Thomas Lockwood, Sarah Lockwood, Mary Jane Lockwood and Isadora Lockwood.
In the Final Settlement of Isaac Smith's Estate dated 8 Oct. 1863 all of the children's names (except Isadora's) are listed among Isaac's heirs:

"and it appearing to the Court that Louisa Lockwood left her surviving the following named children, to wit., Edwin C. Lockwood, Thomas Lockwood, Mary J. Lockwood, all over 21 years of age, and Sarah Lockwood, a minor who has no gaurdian, all of whom are entitled to share the property of Louisa Lockwood, deceased, in equal parts, so that the sum of five hundred, and seventy-four dollars and eighty-seven cents must be divided into four equal parts."

Louisa's date of death is estimated to have occured about 1841, based upon the birth of Sarah Lockwood, the fifth child born to the union, and James Lockwood's second marriage. Louisa may have died birthing Sarah.
It is also believed that Louisa must have been a frail and perhaps sickly woman because when James migrated his family to Tallapoosa County in 1837 with the rest of Louisa's family, he was listed among the members of the Fellowship Primitive Baptist Chruch in Youngsville but she was not.
James A. Lockwood was born about 1811 in New York.
"James was a preacher, possibly a tailor," according to Doris Russell Foshee.
We don't know when or why James relocated to Lowndes County, Alabama, but it was there that he met and married Louisa E. Smith on the 12th of February, 1834. It was also in Alabama where five children were born to the couple.
After relocating to Tallapoosa County, James A. Lockwood bought a small parcel of land where he could build a home and farm.

Land Office, Register of Receipts
Tallapoosa County, Alabama 1834-1836
James A. Lockwood, 10/6/1836, Receipt No. 5090, Sec. 8, Tsp. 22, Rng. 21.

This parcel of land was small, only a little more than 39 acers, but from all accounts I have read, James bought the land not only to do some farming but more predominately to set up a "seamster's shop," because he was a master tailor and the area was only being newly settled about that time. (It seems that many of the Lockwoods of old actually were seamtsers or tailors.)
In 1837, James was listed as member of the Fellowship Primitive Baptist Chruch in Youngsville (now Alexander City) along with his father-in-law, Isaac Smith, and brothers-in-law -- Joab Stewart, William Canterberry and John J. Smith.
After James' wife, Louisa Smith Lockwood, passed away. James took their four remaining children and immigrated to Terrnoir Township in Clark County, Arkansas, which is close to Arkadelphia. We are not certain why James moved his family to Arkansas, but several of the Smith grandchildren and at least one son went that way about the same time frame.
After living in Clark County for some time, James married for the second time taking Sarah Dickinson as his wife in 1850 in Clark County, Arkansas. They later moved to Pike County (Arkansas?), where he was reported to have become a minister in later years.
One document suggests that James went to Ohio from Arkansas, but I haven't been able to locate him there for certain either. I did find one James A. Lockwood in Ohio about the time James was supposedly there who was being tired for murdering another man. This may prove to be a confirmation of a note recieved from Doris Russel Foshee.

"My grandmother, Mecie Lockwood Basham (Edwin's daughter), told us about her 'grandfather coming home unexpectedly one day and looking through the window. There through the glass saw his wife, Sarah, with another man. He shot through the window, then ran off not knowing if he had killed them or not.' Supposedly, he ran away to live with some Indians."

Children of LOUISA SMITH and JAMES LOCKWOOD are:
i. ISADORA4 LOCKWOOD, b. Circa 1835, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA; d. Circa 1835, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA.
ii. EDWIN CORNELIUS LOCKWOOD, b. 30 Aug 1836, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA; d. 23 Dec 1898, Murfreesburo, Pike County, Arkansas, USA; m. MARY ANN PULLEN, 30 Aug 1868, Arkadelphia, Clark County, Arkansas; b. 10 Aug 1852, South Carolina; d. 04 Feb 1926, Murfreesburo, Pike County, Arkansas.
iii. WILLIAM THOMAS LOCKWOOD, b. Bet. 1836 - 1841.
iv. MARY JANE LOCKWOOD, b. Bet. 1836 - 1841.
v. SARAH LOCKWOOD, b. Circa 1841, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA.

8. JOHN J.3 SMITH, SR. (ISAAC2, ROBERT1) was born Bet. Jan - Jun 1822 in Georgia, USA, and died Aft. 18 Jan 1883 in Coosa County, Alabama, USA. He married MARY FRANCES PODY 26 Dec 1842 in Coosa County, Alabama, daughter of ANDREW PODY and NANCY DUDLEY. She was born Circa 1823 in Wilkes County, Georgia, and died 31 Dec 1850 in Coosa County, Alabama, USA.

John J. was referred to as "speculating John" because of his involment in the slave trade.
When his father, Isaac, died he was left land, slaves and more than a fourth share of the balance of Isaac's property.:

"SIXTH, I give to my son, John J. Smith, all of the land north of Oaktasassa Creek on the northeast quarter of Section Nine and the southeast quarter of Section Four all in Township Twenty-three of Range Twenty-one, also the following slaves; Ben, Josie, Albert, Phillip, Mariah, Phillip,Jr. and Horace and their increase, also at the death of my wife, the north half of the southwest quarter of Section Four in Township Twenty-three of Range Twenty-one.
"THIRTEENTH, I will that [my] executors sell all of the balance of my perishable property, and after all of my debts are paid, the balance to be equally divided between my four sons; John J. Smith, G. W. Smith, B. F. Smith and A. J. Smith."

Mary Frances Pody was born about 1823 in Wilkes County, Georgia to Andrew Jackson Pody and his wife Nancy Dudley Pody. (Pody is a name that was mentioned often while my grandparents were still living.) She married John J. Smith in Coosa County, Alabama on December 26, 1842, and bore for him six children: Sophronia R., Celia T., Rebecca V., Joseph B., Margaret, and John J. Jr. She died at her home in Coosa County, December 31, 1850.

Children of JOHN SMITH and MARY PODY are:
i. SOPHRONIA R.4 SMITH134, b. Circa 1843; m. JOSEPH N. HILYER, 27 Oct 1875, Coosa County, Alabama, USA.
ii. CELIA T. SMITH, b. 1847.
iii. REBECCA V. SMITH, b. 1848.
iv. JOSEPH B. SMITH, b. 1849.
v. MARGAREETT SMITH, b. 1852.
vi. JOHN J. SMITH, JR., b. 1855; m. MARGARET L. ROBINSON, 12 Jun 1873, Clay County, Alabama, USA.

9. GEORGE WASHINGTON3 SMITH (ISAAC2, ROBERT1) was born 12 Aug 1825 in Montgomery County, Alabama, USA, and died 24 Aug 1897 in Kellyton, Coosa County, Alabama, USA. He married MARY ANN SPIVEY 19 Jan 1842 in Coosa County, Alabama, USA, daughter of EPHRAIM SPIVEY and MARY NIXON. She was born 03 Nov 1822 in Johnston County, South Carolina, USA (or Autauga County, Alabama, USA), and died 06 Aug 1914 in Kellyton, Coosa County, Alabama, USA.

George Washington Smith is listed among the children of Isaac Smith in the family register of an old Smith Bible. The Bible was passed to George, eventually coming to Coye Smith Bartlet. (Where the Bible is now I do not know.)
Born in Montgomery County, Alabama near the settlement of Brother John Browning before that part of the county was split away to become a part of Lowndes County, he remained in Lowndes County with his parents for several years before his father, Isaac, moved the family northward to Coosa County into the Elkahatchee Creek basin and then later into Tallapoosa County.
On the 1850 census in Coosa County, George is listed as Washington, which gives us his middle name.
He is mentioned in his father's will, but that which was given to him in the will was also passed on to his brother, Benjamin, who was to hold it in trust for GW's children.

"FOURTH, I give to my son, G. W. Smith, all of the land south of the Oaktasasca Creek that belongs to the northeast quarter of Section Nine in Township Twenty-three Of Range Twenty-one. Also the following slaves; Sally, Alfred, Alick, Hannah, and Mary, all of which is to be held in trust by my son, B. F. Smith, and not to liable for the debts of said G. W. Smith but to be used for the support of himself and family and the education of his children and at the death of said G. W. Smith said land and Negroes and their increase to be sold and the proceeds to be equally divided between the lawful heirs of said G. W. Smith."

(This raises a question in my mind as to whether there had been a wedge driven between GW and his father, Isaac. If there was a dispute between them, I would like to learn what it was.)

He was also to recieve one-fourth of all of Isaac's remaining properties:
"THIRTEENTH, I will that (my) executors sell all of the balance of my perishable property, and after all of my debts are paid, the balance to be equally divided between my four sons; John J. Smith, G. W. Smith, B. F. Smith and A. J. Smith."

However, having reviewed the final judgement on Isaac's probated will, it appears that he received more than his father actually willed to him. This was probably due to his youngest brother's death before the final decree.
On 2 July 1862, GW entered into the service of the Confederate States of America, enlisting into the 5th Battalion of Hilliard’s Legion, Company B. This was an Alabama Cavalry unit, which was later absorbed by the 14th Alabama. According to his widow's pension application, George Washington Smith retired from the service of the Confederate Army as a soilder in Company G of the 14th Alabama Infantry Regiment.
According to Willis Brewer's historical account of Alabama and her armies in his book -- Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872 --

"This regiment was organized at Auburn, August 1, 1861 [with men from Montgomery and Auburn and the counties of Chambers, Jackson, Randolph, and Tallapoosa.] It went first to Huntsville, thence to Virginia, where it arrived in November. [It was sent to Richmond to rest after suffering camp diseases, especially measles.] Proceeding to Yorktown, it was brigaded under Gen. Pryor of Virginia, Longstreet's division. The command fell back with the army, and fought at Williamsburg with heavy loss to four of the companies. At Seven Pines it was again in action, with but few casualties. It participated at Mechanicsville, and was almost annihilated at Frazier's Farm and Malvern Hill, losing nearly all the officers, after charging the enemy's almost impregnable positions repeatedly. It moved towards the Potomac with the army, and was engaged with slight loss at the second battle of Manassas [Bull Run]. Greatly reduced in strength, the Fourteenth fought at Sharpsburg, suffering severely in casualties. Placed in Cadmus Wilcox's brigade, Anderson's division - with the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Alabama regiments - it was on the line of the Rappahannock during the winter of 1862 - 3 and was in line of battle on the highths when Burnside was repulsed at Fredericksburg. The regiment was hotly engaged, and with heavy loss, at Salem [(151 casualties), at the Salem Church (at Chancellorsville)]. It went on the Pennsylvania campaign, and the blood of its veterans was poured out freely at Gettysburg. The winter of 1863 - 4 was passed in camp near Orange C.H. and the Fourteenth was engaged with shocking results at both the Wilderness and Spottsylvania, emerging from those battles with much depleted ranks. Now in Sanders' brigade, Mahone's division, the Fourteenth participated in the numerous and bloody struggles around Petersbrug, during the last ten months of the war. Its colors were furled forever at Appomattox, where only 70 or 80, under Capt. Perry of Lowndes, were present. The names of 1317 men were on its rolls, over 250 of whom perished in battle, 350 died in the service and 159 were discharged or transferred."

Other family records indicate that GW Smith was indeed present at Gettysburg and Appomattox; and, he was one of the few men from his regiment who returned home from the Civil War.
On July 20, 1876, he and his wife, Mary Ann, celebrated the union of their son, G W Smith, Jr., to Sarah L. Collins at the home of their friend J W Hawkins in Clay County, Alabama. It was a double wedding where also were married Mr. Hawkins' daughter, Sarah, to Daniel Bailey. Daniel M Bailey and GW Smith (both seniors) set bonds for their sons.
In his latter years, GW Smith moved his family into Clay County near Millerville, Alabama, where he farmed the land. Before he died, he returned to Coosa County where he lived to see the age of 72 years and 12 days old.

I have read several descriptions about many of the Spivey women saying they were "small, blue-eyed, fair-haired" or "fair skinned with blue eyes." From pictures that I have seen of her in her older years, I believe this may also describe, Mary Ann Spivey Smith.
Although the license was never signed by the performing minister, I believe G. W. Smith and Mary Ann Spivey were probably wed on the same day they received their license.

Children of GEORGE SMITH and MARY SPIVEY are:
i. LAURA ETTA4 SMITH, b. 26 Oct 1843, Coosa County, Alabama; d. 15 Jun 1913, Titus, Elmore County, Alabama; m. WALTER TERRY COLQUITT, 28 Mar 1865; b. 04 Sep 1843, Talbot County, Georgia, USA; d. 04 Jun 1917, Elmore County, Alabama, USA.
ii. REBECCA SMITH, b. Bet. Jan - Oct 1846, Coosa County, Alabama; d. Bet. 1850 - 1860, Coosa County, Alabama.
iii. MARY FRANCES SMITH, b. 03 Nov 1847, Coosa County, Alabama; d. 04 May 1875, Alabama; m. JAMES BRYANT, 04 Sep 1871.
iv. MARTHA ELIZABETH SMITH, b. 02 Feb 1848, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; d. 14 Sep 1884, Alabama, USA; m. ROBERT HENRY DARK, 01 Nov 1866, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA; b. 12 Apr 1846, Georgia, USA; d. 25 Feb 1922, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA.
v. VIRGINIA SMITH, b. Circa Mar 1850, Coosa County, Alabama; d. Bet. 1850 - 1860.
vi. BENJAMIN ADDISON SMITH, b. Jun 1850, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; d. 1895, Clay County, Alabama, USA; m. (1) ADELIA ANGELINE SLAUGHTER, Bef. 04 Sep 1871; b. 14 Mar 1847, Whiteville, Harris County, Georgia, USA; d. 09 Oct 1885, Hackneyville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA; m. (2) EMMA E. SPEARS, 28 Feb 1886, Clay County, Alabama; b. Sep 1858; d. 1903, Clay County, Alabama.
vii. ALABAMA SMITH, b. Circa 1854, Coosa County, Alabama; d. 20 Jul 1901; m. SAMUEL WILLIAMS.
viii. GEORGE WASHINGTON SMITH, JR., b. 12 Apr 1857, Coosa County, Alabama; d. 04 Jan 1928, Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA; m. SARAH LOU COLLINS, 21 Jul 1876, Clay County, Alabama; b. 1859; d. 1938, Buried at the Liberty Methodist Chruch in Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
ix. SARAH ANN SMITH, b. 05 May 1859, Coosa County, Alabama; d. 22 Mar 1933, Buried at the Liberty Methodist Chruch in Tallapoosa County, Alabama; m. ROBERT W. HAWKINS; b. 07 Apr 1857; d. 22 Mar 1935, Buried at the Liberty Methodist Chruch in Tallapoosa County, Alabama..
x. ROBERT WILLIS SMITH, b. 04 Oct 1863, Coosa County, Alabama; d. 26 Sep 1941, Wadley, Chambers County, Alabama, USA; m. LEOLA R. RIDDLE, 30 Sep 1884, Clay County, Alabama; b. 26 Apr 1867; d. 22 Oct 1936, Buried at the Liberty Methodist Chruch in Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
xi. PAYTON LOMAN SMITH, b. 09 Jun 1866, Coosa County, Alabama; d. 02 Aug 1945, Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA; m. NANCY ANN RIDDLE; b. 04 Jan 1869; d. 07 Mar 1945, Buried at the Liberty Methodist Chruch in Tallapoosa County, Alabama..

10. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN3 SMITH (ISAAC2, ROBERT1) was born Jan 1828 in Montgomery County, Alabama, USA, and died Aft. 20 Jun 1900. He married LUCY E. CORNELIUS 19 Sep 1851 in Coosa County, Alabama. She died Bef. 1900.

In 1861 when his father died, Benjamin Franklin Smith and his family were still living in Tallapoosa as seen in the second paragraph of the declaration of death for Isaac Smith as recorded by John J and himself, those two having been appointed the executors of their father's estate:

"Your Petitioners further state and show that next of kin and only heirs at law of said will are as follows; viz: The widow of decedent Lucy M. L. Smith, over twenty-one years of age and resides in said county of Tallapoosa and the following children viz. George W. Smith, who is over twenty one years of age and resides in Tallapoosa County aforesaid, Andrew J. Smith, and resides in Tichamingo County, Mississippi and whose Post Office is Corinth. Your Petitioners, both of whom reside in this county and Adeline T. O’Brien, wife of Brisso O’Brien, over twenty-one years of age and resides in Tallapoosa County aforesaid; and the following grandchildren, viz.

When his father died, he was left with the land on which Isaac's house was built, most of the house and several slaves, also more than one-quarter of the proceeds from perishable and real property:

"SEVENTH, I give to my son, B. F. Smith, the northwest quarter of Section Nine and the south half of the southwest quarter of Section Four all in the Township Twenty-three of Range Twenty-one with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging except such as have been given to my wife, which shall (be?) in use to him at her death, also the following slaves; Osbourn, Delph, Susan, Juda, Henry, David, Isham, and Julian and their increase."
"THIRTEENTH, I will that [my] executors sell all of the balance of my perishable property, and after all of my debts are paid, the balance to be equally divided between my four sons; John J. Smith, G. W. Smith, B. F. Smith and A. J. Smith."
"FIFTEENTH, It is my will that at the death of A. J. Smith that should he die without an heir that my executors sell the property that I have given him and divide the proceeds as follows one-half to be equally divided between my two sons B. F. and John J. Smith and the ballance [sic] to be equally divided with all of the ballance [sic] of my lawful heirs."

Benjamin was the Tallapoosa County Bailiff; and thus, he was exempt by a special letter received from the governor from service during the American Civil War. Regardlessly, he entered service in 1863 at Bungiville, Alabama into the William Petty Company and he continued in the State Guards. Towards the end of the war, he was sent to Florida, was furloughed by General Clanton and was home by the close of the war.
Benjamin left Tallapoosa County, not too long after returning from the war, relocating to Opelika in Lee County, Alabama. There we find him and his family in both the 1870 and 1880 census records; as a farmer in 1870 and a grocery merchant in 1880. After the death of his wife, Lucy, he removed back to Tallapoosa County, where he and his son John F. Smith, also a widower, shared a home.
Children of BENJAMIN SMITH and LUCY CORNELIUS are:
i. JOHN F.4 SMITH, b. Jul 1854; d. Aft. 1900.
ii. ELLEN M. SMITH, b. Bet. 1857 - 1858.
iii. ISAAC SMITH II191, b. 1861.
iv. L. J. SMITH, b. 1865.
v. R. A. SMITH, b. 1868.
vi. SARA REBECCA SMITH, b. 1873.
vii. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SMITH, JR., b. 1877; m. MALONIA A. POOL192.
viii. VESILLIA R. V. SMITH, b. 1879.

11. ANDREW JACKSON3 SMITH (ISAAC2, ROBERT1) was born Circa 1831 in Lowndes County, Alabama, USA, and died Bet. 24 Mar 1862 - 08 Oct 1863. He married ADELINE DELOACH 04 Jul 1858 in Coosa County, Alabama, USA. She was born Circa 1834 in South Carolina, USA.

Andrew Jackson Smith only lived to be about 31 or 32 years of age.
In his father's will he was left land:

"THIRD, I give to my youngest son, A. J. Smith, one hundred acres off the south end of [the] northeast quarter of Section Four of Township Twenty-three of Range Twenty-one. Also the following slaves; Guss, Malinda, Abe and Eliza, to be held in trust by my son John J. Smith for maintenance and support of A. J. Smith and family, but not to be liable for any debt that has or may be contracted by said A. J. Smith. The above property to revert to my estate and be distributed as hereafter to be provided for in case A. J. Smith shall die without an heir."

(Note: I find it a bit odd that there is a death clause for A. J. Smith in Old Issac's will, but perhaps that is only because he was the youngest, had been married for about three years and still had no heirs by the time that Isaac wrote his will.)

Shortly after his marriage to Adeline DeLoach in 1858, the couple migrated to Corinth in Tichamingo County, Mississippi
By the time Isaac's will passed through probate and the final settlement was made on 08 October 1863, A. J. was dead, having died without any heirs.

Timeline for the Life and Times of: Isaac Smith (1786-1861)

2009-12-17T15:51:00.019-06:00

(UPDATED: January 10, 2011)

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All materials, written and graphical, have been researched, complied and/or illustrated by Kathy M. Galovic

If you are an extended member of this family, branching from any of Isaac Smith's children, I would like to hear from you.

I, Kathy M. Galovic, have been gathering information and documents about Isaac Smith, who was the son of Robert Smith and his wife, Edy (possibly Edyth or Edith) ________, and his descendants since the latter part of January 1981. This is a work in progress. To quote a cousin, Jerry Smith Barrington, "As long as people live, marry, have children and die, a family history goes on."

As a young child, I always heard stories about ancestral family members but never set them down on paper; I wish I had. I remember hearing names such as B F Smith (Old Uncle Frank), G. W. Smith (Grampa George), Mary Ann Spivey, Pepper, Guthrie, Spears, Dark, Browning and many others. You see, some of my earliest years were spent in and around the beautiful hills of Alabama where many of those people were born, lived and died; and, as my family traveled visiting relatives the names rolled off my grandmother’s tongue.

I began this research shortly after my youngest daughter was born, because I wanted my children to know from where they came and what their people were like.

This specific Timeline was begun on January 9, 1999, and I have added to and subtracted from its contents as new data has come into my hands. I have speculated, estimated dates, and often—with this Timeline—have been able to pinpoint where certain offspring were born just because of where they fell in the line. I have also added some "current events" to the line to help me (and others who may read it) understand the histories as they relate not only to the family, but to the growing Union and to the parts of the country where this family resided when the events took place.

Although Isaac Smith had not been born before the end of the American Revolutionary War, during his lifetime the first sixteen Presidents of the United States (including George Washington) were inducted into office, the last being Abraham Lincoln. The United States disputed over land, battling with Spain for the Mississippi Territory, the French, English and Indians through the French and Indian War and the War of 1812 over the use of Indian lands stretching from the eastern seaboard to the Mississippi River and International Waters, and with Mexico between 1845 and 1848 for Texas.

Isaac and his wife, Rebecca, brought eleven children (that I am aware of) into the world at various locations across the south. He and his family followed new lands being opened across the south for settlement until he finally settled in Tallapoosa County, Alabama about five miles north of Youngsville (present day Alexander City). Most (if not all) of his children followed Isaac as he removed from one location to the next. He watched the first thirty-four States be admitted into the Union, but shortly before his death, eleven of them seceded to become the Confederate States of America..

Isaac Smith was a true patriot. This is not only recognized in the naming of his male children after both presidents and war heroes but also through a statement made by his attending physician, who was with him only a few days before his death. During a deposition when Old Isaac’s will went into probate, Dr. Kelly noted, "...he [Isaac] said to me in speaking of his prospects of recovery that his earthly matters were all settled but he still had a drive to live because of the difficulties of his country settled."

1775–1783 - American Revolutionary War
***UPDATED*** 17 May 1786 - Isaac Smith is born to Robert Smith and Edy.
Isaac Smith is born to Robert Smith and Edy ________________ in Camden District, Clarendon County, South Carolina on a Wednesday.
1) Old Smith Family Bible passed down from George Washington Smith (G.W. Smith), which was in the possession of Coye Smith Barnett in 1971. This record lists Isaac, his parents, some of his siblings, some of his children and some of his grandchildren.
2) Census: 1860 Federal Census Alabama, Tallapoosa, Roll 25, Book 1, Page 356 we find the State (Colony actually) of Isaac's birth.
3) Book: Marriage & Death Notices from the 'South Western Baptist' Newspaper, Michael Kelsey, Nancy Graff-Kelsey, Ginny Guinn Parsons, Published by Heritage Books, 1995, accessed September 20, 2008 (This scanned copy of the above mentioned obituary sites DoB, place of birth and death and date of death; and although it says Sumter District, Sumter was not formed from the Camden District until 1800. So that puts Isaac having been born in the Camden District. Along with an 1810 census record from Clarendon County, which was in the newly formed Sumter District, we have found Isaac's place of birth.)
4) Document: Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Smith Barrington.(NOTE: This is actually The Smith White Papers, which I have shortened to Smith Papers.)
1787
1788
7 April 1798 - Mississippi Territory is organized.
The Mississippi Territory was organized in 1798 from land disputed over by the U.S. and Spain until Spain ceded claim with Treaty of Madrid in 1795. This area extended from 31° North latitude to 32°28' N, or approximately the southern half of the present states of Alabama and Mississippi.
Although the Mississippi Territory was created in 1798, only a handful of pioneers settled there before 1810. Migration into the territory was slow in part due to the presence of the powerful Creek and Cherokee tribes in western Georgia and the Choctaw and Chickasaw in Alabama and Mississippi. In 1811, when conflicts with the French reached a point where it seemed necessary to mobilize troops and supplies quickly across the Mississippi Territory, the Federal Road was widened and improved for that purpose. This led to the Creek Indian War of 1813-14 and then to the removal of the Indians to the West. By 1820, two hundred and thirty thousand immigrants, both black and white, were living in Alabama and Mississippi, raising cotton or erecting stores, warehouses and homes. Some of these settlers came by boat, but most made the tedious trip over the Federal Road. The major arteries of the East and North had connections that led to the newly acquired lands. Traders and light travelers from the North came down the Upper Road through the Piedmont into Georgia, then traveled over the postal horse path which opened in 1806, through Athens, Watkinsville and High Shoals, to meet the Federal Road at Columbus, Georgia. Many others used the somewhat easier Fall Line Road and then met the Federal Road, traveling through Augusta, Warrenton, Sparta, Milledgeville and Macon before reaching Columbus. Crossing on through Alabama, the Federal Road ended at a crossroads known as St. Stephens [in Alabama].
1) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Mississippi Territory. Online, first accessed February 24, 2007
2) Early American Roads and Trails, Beverly Whitaker, Kansas City, Missouri, Copyright 2002. Online, first accessed March 26, 2006.
30 April 1789 - George Washington becomes the first President of the United States of America.
21 November 1789 - North Carolina enters the Union as the 12th State.
1790 - First Federal Census of the United States is taken.
(NOTE: The name Robert Smith (Isaac's father) appears 12 times in the 1790 Census of South Carolina; 86 times in the entire nation. There were 377 Smith families enumerated in South Carolina. In the entire nation, there were almost 6,000 Smith families listed. At present we do not know which Robert Smith in South Carolina is ours.)
17 May 1791 - Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy, turns 5 years old.
1792
1793
1794
1795
17 May 1796 - Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy, turns 10 years old.
4 March 1797 - John Adams - Second President of the United States.
1798
1799
1800 - Second Federal Census of the United States is taken.
4 March 1801 - Thomas Jefferson - Third President of the United States.
17 May 1801 - Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy, turns 15 years old.
Late 1801 to mid 1802 - Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy, marries young.
Isaac would have been between 15 and 16 years of age when he wed his first wife, Sara Rebecca Londers (b. 24 March 1787), probably in South Carolina.
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington.
(NOTE: This date is estimated from their children’s’ dates of birth listed in the Old Smith Family Bible record of George Washington Smith. Although I found one record suggesting Isaac and Rebecca were married in 1806 and another in 1820. I don’t believe either of these dates are correct. The 1806 date is four years after the birth of Elizabeth, their first child; and, the 1820 date is much too late. At least four or five of their children were born by 1820. I am more inclined to believe the 1820 date was accidentally inverted during the transcription. I believe the date should be 1802, unless Isaac was married to another woman before he wed Sara Rebecca Londers, which is highly improbable considering that he was very young when he married her. The Bible record passed down from his son G. W. Smith implies that Isaac’s first child, Elizabeth, was also the first child of Rebecca.)
***UPDATED*** 25 February 1803 - A daughter, Elizabeth, is born in the Sumter District, Clarendon County, South Carolina.
1) Old Smith Family Bible passed down from G.W. Smith lists her date of birth.
2) Place is from the 1810 Census Records
1804
1805
17 May 1806 - Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy, turns 20 years old.
***UPDATED*** 15 January 1807 - A daughter, Mary Ann, is born in the Sumter District, Clarendon County, South Carolina.
1) Old Smith Family Bible passed down from G.W. Smith lists his date of birth.
2) Place is from the 1810 Census Records
1808
4 March 1809 - James Madison - Fourth President of the United States.
***UPDATED*** 15 March 1809 - The first son, Robert W., is born in the Sumter District, Clarendon County, South Carolina.
1) Old Smith Family Bible passed down from G.W. Smith lists his date of birth.
2) Place is from the 1810 Census Records
1810 - Third Federal Census of the United States is taken.
17 May 1811 - Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy, turns 25 years old.
***UPDATED*** Circa 1811 - A son, Isaac Thomas, is born in the Sumter District, Clarendon County, South Carolina.
(Note: Some time after Isaac Thomas’ birth, Isaac Sr. earned a new moniker—Old Isaac—and the younger Isaac came to be called Isaac T. or I. T.)
Circa 1811 - Isaac Smith joins the Bapitist Church in South Carolina
Has anyone found an actual church record? If so, I would like to have a copy.
1) Book: Marriage & Death Notices from the 'South Western Baptist' Newspaper, Michael Kelsey, Nancy Graff-Kelsey, Ginny Guinn Parsons, Published by Heritage Books, 1995, accessed September 20, 2008 (This obituary sites "He jointed [sic] the Baptist Church in 1811..." and following that, "He removed from South Carolina...")
Between 1811 and 1819 - two daughters, Clara Jane and Louisa E. (Emma?), are born in South Carolina.
(Note: Since we do not have exact dates of birth for these two daughters, it is impossible to pinpoint where they were born. However, the State in which they were born surely was South Carolina.)
18 June 1812 - 1814 - War of 1812. The Creek Indian War that was a part of the War of 1812, was fought largely within the boundaries of present-day Alabama between 1813 and 1814 Andrew Jackson from Tennessee became a military hero as he led U.S. forces against the "Red Stick" Creeks.
1813
24 August 1814 - British forces burn the District of Columbia
During the most notably destructive raid of the War of 1812 British forces burn public buildings and structures, including the White House, the Capitol, the Arsenal, the Dock-Yard, Treasury, War office and the bridge crossing the Potomac River.
1815
17 May 1816 - Old Isaac turns 30 years old.
4 March 1817 - James Monroe - Fifth President of the United States.
10 December 1817 - The Alabama Territory is created.
"The Mississippi Territory is divided to become a State of the Federal Union. The territory remaining to the east of the new State of Mississippi is erected by Congress into a territorial government, giving it the name Alabama, from the great river which drains its center." William Wyatt Bibb is also appointed Governor of the Alabama Territory.
1) Document: HISTORY of ALABAMA, entered according to the act of Congress, by Albert James Pickett, on 27th January 1851, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama.
April - October 1818 - The "Red Stick" Creek uprisings.
The Red Sticks continued to form marauding bands to kill the vanguard of white settlers, who had begun to trickle into the "new" Alabama Territory. This continued through the year until the Creeks determined they should leave the Americans in quiet possession of the lands, which were surrendered with much reluctance at the Treaty of Fort Jackson. With that concession, the flood-gates of Virginia, the two Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia were now hoisted, and mighty streams of emigration poured through them, spreading over the whole territory of Alabama. The axe resounded from side to side, and from corner to corner. The stately and magnificent forests fell. Log cabins sprang, as if by magic, into sight. Never before or since, has a country been so rapidly peopled.
1) Document: HISTORY of ALABAMA by Albert James Pickett – see above for description.
Circa 1818 - Isaac Smith removes his family from Clarendon County, Sumter District, South Carolina.
1) Book: Marriage & Death Notices from the 'South Western Baptist' Newspaper, Michael Kelsey, Nancy Graff-Kelsey, Ginny Guinn Parsons, Published by Heritage Books, 1995, accessed September 20, 2008 (This obituary sites, "He moved from South Carolina in 1818 and settled in what was then Montgomery County..." However, we have found an 1820 census record in Union County with an Isaac Smith as the overseer of the Estate of J. F Gist. The enumeration fits Isaac's family, but also includes slaves. We believe this is our Isaac and that he was there learning to read, write and work numbers, learning the ways of a planter and preparing for his future.
22 October 1819 - Elizabeth L. Smith marries Joab Stewart
It is not fully understood how Elizabeth (Eliza) came to know Joab Stewart. We do know, however, that both the Smith family and Joab were in South Carolina about the same time. It is very probable that the couple met, fell in love and decided to travel to Dallas County, Alabama, where they were wed ahead of the Smith family because Sarah Rebecca was with child. It is also very possible that Isaac traveled with them to scope out the available land in Alabama.
1) Dallas County, Alabama Marriages - MARRIAGE BOOK I: 1818 - 1845
Steward, Joab to Eliza Smith 22 Oct 1819 as listed on pp. 17
2) Memoriam to Elizabeth J. Jackson (Eliza's daughter): By Lucy Jackson, the wife of Phillip Andrew Jackson, Elizabeth Jane's son. "Grandfather Joab Steward, her [Elizabeth Jane's] father, was a consecrated christian and a well-to-do citizen. He loved her with puculiar tenderness, because she was the babe of his deceased wife [Eliza]."
9 November 1819 - William W. Bibb takes office and becomes the first Governor of the Alabama Territory
14 December 1819 - Alabama enters the Union as the 22nd state.
1820 - Fourth Federal Census of the United States is taken.
22 April 1820 - A daughter, Adaline Temperance, is born in South Carolina.
(NOTE: By this time, as early pioneers but not the vanguard, this family was on the move. Even so, Adaline Temperance was born in South Carolina, probably in Union County. We believe Isaac did not leave South Carolina until after the mid to latter 1820s.)
(SUPPOSITION: Family records indicate her birth but not the place. This timeline provides the place.)
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
17 May 1821 - Old Isaac turns 35 years old.
1821-22 - A son, John J., is born in Georgia.
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
2) 1850 Federal Census, Coosa County, Wetumpka, pp. 293, line 637.
(Note: This census document indicates John’s place of birth but not the date.)
17 October 1822 - Old Isaac Smith and Rebecca are members of the Mount Gilead Baptist Church.
The church "located five miles southeast of Benton in Lowndes County Alabama (which was then still Montgomery County) [was] in the settlement of Brother John Browning on Big Swamp Creek."
1) TRANSCRIPTION: Mt. Gilead Baptist Church Membership - Book 1, transcribed from the second book by Michael V. Sims, May 1999
(Note: By the time the second book came into use during the late 1840s, the church was indeed located in Lowndes County, Alabama. A communiqué from Mr. Sims, dated August 10, 2007, has shed some light on the history of the Mount Gilead Baptist Church. He said, "In the very earliest years, Baptist churches like Mount Gilead did not always keep written records. They did not even have buildings. They met in brush arbors, and there was something in the church culture which did not encourage record keeping, as this suggested too much of a love of formal church hierarchy and government.
"By the mid 1820s this began to change, at least in Montgomery and Dallas Counties Alabama. The Alabama Baptist Association was organized (1822?) among the churches of Montgomery, Dallas, Autauga and Bulter Counties, among others. Mount Gilead was not one of the original four member churches, but it joined quickly after the organization of the Association. As a requirement for membership, churches had to officially be "Organized" or "Constituted" by an appointed group of preachers drawn from the Association's membership."
Mr. Sims also indicated that the original membership and minutes book for the church was actually destroyed or lost about a hundred years ago. "Several churches in the area - Benton, Collirene, Gordonville -," Mr. Sims remarked, "lost their old church books when the houses of the various Church Clerks were destroyed by fire - either in the Civil War (Benton, Sister Springs) or around 1900 (Collirene). The "transcription" from the early book was recorded on the flyleaf of the "new" book probably in the late 1840s. "What we know about the church at the time your ancestor Isaac Smith was there was either drawn from the annual Associational minutes (a fraction of which have survived) or were written down in the 1830s from the memory of the Church Clerk."
1823
1824
4 March 1825 - John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the United States.
12 August 1825 - A son, George Washington, is born in Montgomery County, Alabama.
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
2) 1850 Federal Census, Coosa County, Wetumpka, pp. 293, line 638.
(NOTE: The census document only indicates that George was born in Alabama.
SUPPOSITION: This timeline provides the place within the State where G.W. was born.)
17 May 1826 - Old Isaac turns 40 years old.
1827
June 1828- A son, Benjamin Franklin, is born in Montgomery County, Alabama.
(SUPPOSITION: With this timeline we have been able to determine Benjamin’s place of birth.)
4 March 1829 - Andrew Jackson - Seventh President of the United States.
1830 - Fifth Federal Census of the United States is taken.
20 January 1830 - Lowndes County in the Alabama Territory is created.
Lowndes County is created from parts of Montgomery, Dallas and Butler counties. Located in the south-central portion, it is considered to be part of the Black Belt.
1830 - Old Isaac is in Lowndes County, Alabama with his family for the Fifth Federal Census.
1) 1830 Federal Census, Lowndes County, pp. 267
(Note: The lines are not numbered, but Isaac is listed on the third line from the bottom)
17 May 1831 - Old Isaac turns 45 years old.
1831 - Youngest son, Andrew Jackson is born in Lowndes County, Alabama.
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington.
(SUPPOSITION: His place of birth was not noted. However, this timeline provides the place, since Lowndes County is where the family was living at least one year prior his birth—maybe as many as ten years—until sometime between 1836 and 1837.)
14 March 1831 - Oldest son, Robert W. Smith, marries Sarah Ann Pearson in Lowndes County.
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
12 May 1831 - Old Isaac is witness to the Will of William Browning in Lowndes County.
1) Lowndes County, Alabama Will Book B, pp. 18 -19
2) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
24 March 1832 - Tallapoosa County, Alabama is created.
Tallapoosa County is created from the Creek Indian Cession of 1832 with the Treaty of Cussetta, which opens new lands to the north and northeast of Lowndes County for settlement by free white pioneers and settlers.
18 December 1832 - Coosa County, Alabama is created.
12 February 1833 - A daughter, Louisa, is married in Lowndes County, Alabama.
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
2) Marriage Book 1, Lowndes County Alabama, pp 94, May 30, 1830 - Feb. 13, 1848
3) Letter from one of Old Isaac's great nieces.
"Aunt Em and I would go out to gather black walnuts and hickory nuts, which we called hickker nuts. Louisa Em married James Lockwood in 1834. Most of the family called her Luezor, but to me, she was always Aunt Em."
1833 - Opposition between Southern planters and Northern merchants forces the adoption of the Compromise Tariff.
25 Jan 1834 - Isaac Smith purchases land in Lowndes County, Alabama.
Daniel Browning and his wife, Nancy Browning sells to Isaac Smith, 120 acres of land in Lowndes County.
1) Land Records: Land conveyance filed at Lowndes County, Alabama
2) Transcription of the record received December 9, 2005 from L. W. Rhode (transcriber unknown).
25 Jan 1834 - Robert W. Smith is a Justice of the Peace in Lowndes County, Alabama
1) Document: Same as previously described between Daniel Browning and Isaac Smith
(Note: Some family members who are researching this Smith family believe this Robert Smith to be the son of Isaac. I have my doubts, as there is a Robert Smith, who as a JP, performed the wedding ceremonies of several of Isaac’s children including his son Robert. I am more inclined to believe this was either Isaac’s father or perhaps a brother.)
26 June 1834 - A daughter, Clara Jane, is married in Lowndes County, Alabama.
Robert Smith, JP, weds William S Canterbury and Jane Smith
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
2) Marriage Book 2, Lowndes County Alabama, pp 106.
5 August 1834 - Land Grant to Old Isaac Smith of Lowndes County, Alabama.
According to the verbiage of the grant, this land is subject to sale at Cahawba, Alabama.
1) BLM RECORD: Federal Bureau of Land Management certificate number: 12969
18 September 1834 - Isaac Thomas Smith (son) marries Mary Pearson in Lowndes County.
J. Pruitt, J. P., performed the ceremony.
(Note: Some Smith descendants and historians had long believed Mary Pearson and Robert’s wife, Sarah Ann Pearson, were sisters, but we could find no documentation of the relationship. This has now been proven by the 1880 Census of Coosa County, Alabama, pp176a. They were the daughters of one James A. Pearson, who was a farmer in Lowndes County, mentioned in the Circuit Court Minutes listed below.)
1) Book: LOWNDES COURT HOUSE, By Mildred Russell, page 269
2) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
3) Document: Records of the Circuit Court, Minutes and Decrees Chancery Court 1852-1855: Complete Record, Pages: 399-402; 440. This document was used in conjunction with the aforementioned census to get the father's name.
21 October 1834 - Land Grant to Old Isaac Smith of Lowndes County, Alabama.
1) Federal Bureau of Land Management certificate number: 17366
28 July 1835 - Old Isaac Smith witnesses the will of John Sessions in Lowndes County.
1) Lowndes County, Alabama - Will Book B
1836 - Two of Old Isaac’s sons, are in the Lowndes County Militia.
Robert W. and I. T. Smith appear on the Lowndes County Militia Muster Rolls under the command of Captain Cornelius Robinson.
1) Alabama Dept. of Archives and History; LPR 39, Container 17, Militia Records
17 May 1836 - Old Isaac turns 50 years old.
Last half of 1836 - Old Isaac removes his family to Coosa County, Alabama.
Old Isaac moves his family from (Benton?), Lowndes County, Alabama to the Elkahatchie Community in Coosa County, Alabama. By 1830, Yellow Fever and Malaria in conjunction with rampant land speculation turned some of the population movement southwest towards Mobile and north or northeast towards the lands recently obtained with the Creek Cession.
1) Periodical: Spring Issue, 1942 of the Alabama Historical Quarterly, pp. 86
2) Research done about the history of Lowndes County.
February 1837 - Old Isaac Smith is listed in the Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church.
Old Isaac Smith is listed in the Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church as one of the eight original founding members. Rebecca, his wife, John J., his son, Joab Stewart, Jeremiah Jennings and William Canterberry, all three his sons-in-law, are also listed among the membership. Some but not all, however, are listed as founding members.
1) TRANSCRIPTION: Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church membership roster by Betty Crowder, received 2001
4 March 1837 - Martin Van Buren - Eighth President of the United States.
10 May 1837 - Panic of 1837, brought on by Andrew Jackson's destruction of the Second Bank of the United States, avalanched into other proponents, throws the national economy into a deep depression.
1) Jackson's comments to the Senate after his veto (rejection) of the bank bill began the Panic of 1837.
2) Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 194, Folder 30. Library of Congress
3) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Panic of 1837. Online, first accessed February 2, 2007
10 July 1837 - Daughter, Adeline Temperance Smith marries (1) William B. Kimbrough.
The marriage took place in Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
1) Marriage Book 1 (loose-leaf); Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, pp 392.
1838
1839
1840 - Sixth Federal Census of the United States is taken.
1840 Old Isaac Smith is living in Tallapoosa County
Old Isaac Smith is living in Tallapoosa County, Alabama for the Federal Census with Joab Stewart and J. Walker as nearby neighbors. Elizabeth Smith Stewart (Isaac’s daughter) is not listed among Joab’s family, so I presume she had perished by that time.
1) 1840 Federal Population Schedule, Tallapoosa County, pp. 175
1841 - Isaac Smith is in the Fishpond Precint of Coosa County, Alabama
1) Letter: dated 18 April, 2001, (Betty Crowder to Mrs. Barrington), "In 1841, I find Isaac Smith in Fishpond Precint."
2) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
4 March 1841 - William Henry Harrison - Ninth President of the United States.
6 April 1841 - John Tyler - Tenth President of the United States.
Dubbed "His Accidency" by his detractors, John Tyler was the first Vice President to be elevated to the office of President by the death of his predecessor. Tyler assumed office upon the death of William Henry Harrison, who died after serving one month to the day from pneumonia, which he most likely contracted during his inaugural speech. Tyler’s assumption of the Presidency was instrumental in setting precedence for presidential succession. However, the entire Cabinet, except, Daniel Webster, resigned in protest.
17 May 1841 - Old Isaac turns 55.
26 January 1842 - Alabama’s state prison is established.
Alabama’s state prison was established by the legislature and the first convict is incarcerated.
5 May 1842 - Robert W. Smith (oldest son) draws his Last Will and Testament, appointing his father, Isaac Smith, executor.
1) Will Book B - Rockford, Coosa County, Alabama, pp 596.
2) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
12 May 1842 - Robert W. Smith (oldest son) dies in Coosa County, Alabama.
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
19 January 1843 - George Washington Smith (son) marries Mary Ann Spivey in Coosa County.
1) Marriage License signed and sealed by R. M. Cleveland, dated 19 January 1843, is on file in Coosa County, Alabama. It is very likely they were married on the same day, as a Justice of the Peace or a minister might not have always been available.
2) Marriage Records Book A, Rockford, Coosa County, Alabama, pp 158.
9 March 1844 – Isaac Smith lends money to James A. Pearson
James A. Pearson, an elderly slave owner from Lowndes County, writes that in 1844 he "became embarrassed in his pecuniary affairs" and traveled to Tallapoosa County, to ask his son-in-law, Isaac T. Smith, for a loan. His son-in-law's father, also Isaac Smith, agreed to loan him $196, but asked Pearson to put up as collateral three slaves--January, a blacksmith, and "Sillar a Girl and Jack a boy." When asked to sign a bill of sale for his slaves, Pearson balked, but he later agreed when Isaac T. Smith offered him a promissory note for four hundred dollars signed by father and son.
1) Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, Records of the Circuit Court, Minutes and Decrees Chancery Court 1852-1855: Pages: 399-402; 440
2) Internet Document: Digital Library on Americam Slavery - Number 20184908
(NOTE: These documents help to establish and verify who was Isaac T. Smith's father-in-law and the father of both Mary C. Pearson and Sarah A. Pearson.)
22March 1844 - Land Conveyance in Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Land Conveyance in Tallapoosa County, Alabama between John H. Thomas sold land in Tallapoosa County to Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy. It appears that Isaac was making preparations to move his family once again.
1) Land Records: Land conveyance filed by John H. Thomas in Macon County, Alabama
2) Transcription of the record received December 9, 2005 from L. W. Rhode (transcriber unknown).
(NOTE: John H. Thomas—along with several other personalities—held title to at least fifteen Federal Land Grants in Alabama. He may have been a member of the Alabama Company of South Carolina (or another similar organization), who were instrumental in bringing many settlers into the Alabama Territory. He may have also been one among many who were land speculators stealing land from the native Indians.)
1 April 1844 - Indenture to Isaac Smith in Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
This was an indenture to Isaac Smith by John H. Allen for $1,475.00 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
1) Court Records: Indenture filed at Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama by John H Allen
2) Transcription: Record received December 9, 2005 from L. W. Rhode (transcriber unknown).
4 March 1845 - James K. Polk - Eleventh President of the United States.
1845 - 1848 - U.S. annexes Texas; war with Mexico soon follows.
Alabamians volunteer in large numbers to fight, but only the 1st Alabama Regiment, a battalion and several independent companies actually were received into Federal Service for the war. It is not known, at this time, whether any of Old Isaac's sons or grandsons joined this regiment.
17 May 1846 - Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy, turns 60 years old.
1847 - Montgomery becomes the new Alabama State capital.
5 October 1847 - Old Isaac has unclaimed mail at Dadeville Post office.
Old Isaac, it seems, is a bit remiss in collecting his mail from the Dadeville Post Office.
1) Newspaper: State Guard. Vol. 1, #40, pp. 2, John Hardy, EDITOR. October 5, 1847. Notice - Post Office at Dadeville.
(NOTE: The State Guard was a newspaper, published in Wetumpka and distributed statewide (presumably). It was edited—not so good, I might add—by John Hardy. Subscribers paid their subscription fee once a year.)
24 August 1848 - Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy, marries Mary Jane Goulding
1) Marriage Book B, Coosa County, Alabama - 1849 through 1852, pp 11, Smith, Issac to Gaulding, Mary Jane, Aug. 24, 1848, Wit: John Gaddis, J.P.
2) Bert Cantrell, direct descendant.
3) Anna Jean Smith Key, direct descendant
4 March 1849 - Zachary Taylor - Twelfth President of the United States.
2 April 1849 – James A. Pearson petitions court to revoke the Smith promissory note of 9 March 1844
James A. Pearson petitions the court, asking that the promissory note issued to him on 9 March 1844 and signed by both Isaac Smith and Isaac T. Smith be revoked. He also asks that the bill of sale be cancelled and slaves returned to him, claiming that the slave’s labor more than compensated for the Smiths’ original loan.
1) Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, Records of the Circuit Court, Minutes and Decrees Chancery Court 1852-1855: Pages: 399-402; 440
2) Digital Library on American Slavery PAR Number 20184908
1 June 1849 - Land Patent to Old Isaac Smith of Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
According to the verbiage of the grant, this land is subject to sale at Montgomery, Alabama.
1) Federal Bureau of Land Management - certificate number 9727
14 December 1849 - The Capitol in Montgomery is destroyed by fire.
The Capitol in Montgomery is destroyed by fire on the thirtieth anniversary of statehood. The fire consumed the majority of Alabama’s heretofore-historical records and documents that had been stored in that place.
1850 - Seventh Federal Census of the United States is taken.
1850 - 1851 - Isaac Thomas Smith (son) dies.
(NOTE: At this time, this death is estimated, based upon the probate records I have found, as I have neither found nor seen a will or any probate records.)
10 July 1850 - Millard Fillmore - Thirteenth President of the United States.
Fillmore assumed office after Zachary Taylor died in office on July 9, 1850 from cholera morbus, which he contracted from eating a bowl of cherries and drinking a pitcher of iced milk.
17 May 1851 - Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy, turns 65 years old.
18 September 1851 - Benjamin Franklin Smith (son) marries Lucy Cornelius in Coosa County, Alabama
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
2) Marriage License issued by J. W. Suttle on 16 September 1851
3) Marriage Certificate (same document as above) signed by Daniel D. [Tucker?], O.M.G. on 18 September 1851
4 March 1853 - Franklin Pierce - Fourteenth President of the United
States.
May 1854 - A Final Decree on the case of the promissory note written by Isaac Smith and signed by both him and his son, Isaac T, is given in favor of James A. Pearson.
1) Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, Records of the Circuit Court, Minutes and Decrees Chancery Court 1852-1855: Pages: 399-402; 440
2) Digital Library on American Slavery PAR Number 20184908
2 May 1854 - Old Isaac purchases land in Shelby County, Alabama.
Land Conveyance in Tallapoosa County between Isaac Smith and his wife, Mary Jane, to William Bice for land in Shelby County worth $270.00.
1) Land Records at Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama
1855 - Old Isaac Smith acts as the executor of the estate for his son, Robert W. Smith.
Isaac Smith petitions the court to divide the estate because it is not meeting the demands of its financial obligations.
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
(NOTE: I have not yet seen this record, so I do not know the date the petition was made.)
September 1855 to December 1856 - Yellow Fever takes a large toll in Alabama.
(NOTE: I suspect that Mary Jane Gaulding Smith may have succumbed to this particular outbreak.)
17 May 1856 - Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy, turns 70 years old.
December 1856 - A land record shows Isaac with a new wife—Lucy L. M.
1) Land Records in Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama
4 March 1857 - James Buchanan - Fifteenth President of the United States.
15 March 1857 - The Estate of Robert W. Smith sells for $15,193.06.
Isaac Smith, executor of Robert W. Smith’s Will, enacts a claim against the Estate for the sum total of $16,669.23, which is paid, leaving a balance of $1,476.00 in Isaac’s favor.
1) Will Book 1: 1838-1866, Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, (4 July, 1861), pp 170, Entry dated 4 July, 1861, Last Will and Testament of Isaac Smith.Isaac’s will mentions a ruling in his favor against Robert’s Estate, "I also bequeath to the heirs of Robert W. Smith a certain debt on judgement against the estate of the said Robert W. Smith now on record in the Probate Court in Coosa County, Alabama in my favor."
2) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington.
3) Transcript: Transcript for the sale of the properties. Transcription of the record received December 9, 2005 from L. W. Rhode (transcriber unknown).
23 May 1858 - Adeline Temperance Smith Kimbrough (daughter) marries (2) Brisso O`
Brien.
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington.
4 July 1858 - Andrew Jackson Smith (youngest son) marries Adaline DeLoach in Coosa County.
1) Marriage Book C, Rockford, Coosa County, Alabama, pp 121, Smith, A. J. to Deloach, Adaline, July 4, 1858 Wit: B. T. Smith, M.D.
2) License/Marriage Certificate on file in Coosa County, Alabama
1859
1860 - Eighth Federal Census of the United States is taken.
1860 - War is in the Air -
The feeling of war is in the very air during 1860, and the military spirit runs high. It is believed, however, that Old Isaac was not pro secession -- even though he owned a number of slaves. We know from comments he made on his death bed that he was very concerned about the tension between the North and the South, and after the war broke out he still considered himself a citizen of the United States.
1) Book: History of Coosa County, Alabama, by Willis Brewer (Southern Historical Press, Inc. 1990)
2) Transcript: Deposition taken from Dr. James A. Kelly after Issac Smith's death
28 August 1860 - Federal Census in Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
Isaac Smith is shown with his wife, Lucy L. M., Joseph McLendon (physician) Mary McLendon, Ida McLendon and his granddaughter, Dora Canterberry.
1) 1860 Federal Census Schedule 1 - Free Inhabitants, Tallapoosa County pp. 162? – part of the page number is blurred
(NOTE: Many Smith descendants believe Dr. Joseph McLendon may have been Lucy’s brother, and further that he may have been in the employ of Isaac as the acting physician for his slaves.)
11 January 1861 – Alabama secedes from the Union.
Alabama Secession Convention passes an Ordinance of Secession, declaring Alabama a "Sovereign and Independent State." By a vote of 61-39, Alabama becomes the fourth state to secede from the Union
18 February 1861 - Jefferson Davis is inaugurated president of the Confederate States of America.
Davis is inaugurated president of the Confederate States of America on the portico of the Alabama State Capitol Building in Montgomery.
4 March 1861 - Abraham Lincoln - Sixteenth President of the United States.
12 April 1861 - The Civil War begins.
Civil War begins when Confederates acting upon instructions telegraphed from Montgomery, fire at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
17 May 1861 - Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy, turns 75 years old.
21 May 1861 - The Confederate Congress meets for the last time in Montgomery.
4 July 1861 - Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy, draws his Last Will and Testament.
Isaac Smith appoints his sons B. F. Smith and John J. Smith his executors.
1) Will Book 1; Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, (1838-1866). Page 170
2) Probate Records: Declaration and petition on file in Tallapoosa County, Alabama
3) Probate Transcriptions: Transcription of the record received December 9, 2005 from L. W. Rhode (transcriber unknown).
4) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
24 July 1861 - Isaac Smith, son of Robert and Edy, dies in Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
He died at the age of 75 years, 2 months and 7 days.
1) Book: Marriage & Death Notices from the 'South Western Baptist' Newspaper, Michael Kelsey, Nancy Graff-Kelsey, Ginny Guinn Parsons, Published by Heritage Books, 1995, accessed September 20, 2008 (This obituary sites DoB, place of birth and death and date of death.)
2) Document: Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Smith Barrington.)

Beyond Isaac's Life:
7 July 1861 - Declaration of Death, Proclamation of Heirs and Petition
B. F. Smith and John J. Smith, Executors, after proclaiming the heirs of Isaac Smith, Petition the Probate Court to set a day for the reading of the will.
1) Probate Records: Declaration and petition on file in Tallapoosa County, Alabama
2) Probate Transcriptions: Transcription of the record received December 9, 2005 from L. W. Rhode (transcriber unknown).
3) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
(NOTE: The transcribed copy I have, shows the July 7 date as the day the petition was "Sworn and subscribed" before the Honorable Allen D. Sturdivant. However, that date is a bit confusing, especially when considering that the Executors state that Isaac "departed this life on the 24th day of July AD 1861." If that be the case, why would the judge sign the petition before Isaac’s death? I believe the date should be July 27, 1861 or perhaps 7 August 1861.)
25 July 1861 - Receipt for coffin and case
Receipt for coffin and case in the amount of $15.00 (fifteen dollars), which was paid on 1 January 1862 by B. F. Smith and John J. Smith. The receipt is both signed and marked PAID IN FULL by E. C. Pearson.
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
2) The receipt (Photocopy)
(Note: I have a photocopy of this receipt, which I received in 1993 among other family related papers from Bettye R. Lesley, another direct descendent through George Washington Smith. However, I do not know who holds the original receipt.)
7 August 1861 - An order of the probate court is made.
1) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington
(NOTE: I do not know what this order contained, as I do not have a copy of that proceeding from the probate courts. However, it is mentioned on September 12th, when a guardian was appointed for Isaac’s orphaned and underaged grandchildren. This may have been the actual date when Isaac’s will was read and the court gave instructions to the Executors about what they should do next. SEE: entry for July 7 1861.)
12 September 1861 - Guardianship is appointed for Isaac Smith’s minor, orphaned grandchildren.
The Honorable Allen D. Sturdivant appoints William M Minyard, Esquire, to act as the guardian for Isaac’s grandchildren: to wit; Albert Smith, Nancy Jennings, John J. Smith, Jr., Wade H. Smith, Didema Canterberry, Louisa Canterberry, Dora Canterberry, Thomas Lockwood and Sarah Lockwood.
1) Appointment on file at Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. I have a transcription.
1 October 1861 - Will of Isaac Smith is contested.
The will of Isaac Smith is contested—filing a petition to "try the validity of said instrument of writing as such Will," were to wit: Jacob Cooper for his wife Jane Cooper, John Caldwell for his wife Rebecca Caldwell, Henry B. Jennings, Robert Jennings, Albert McKay for his wife Frances McKay, Daniel Whetstone for his wife, Mary Whetstone, Thomas Barnett for his wife, Margaret Barnett, John Canterberry, Nancy Lee Jennings, John Bailey for his wife Elizabeth Bailey, Monroe Lauderdale for his wife Rebecca Ann Lauderdale, John Walker for his wife Louisa Walker, William M. Jackson for his wife, Elizabeth Jane Jackson, D. C. Smith, Daniel Whetstone for his wife, Sarah Whetstone and Amanda Jennings—17 people in all.
1) Petition on file at Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama
2) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington. A transcription is included in these papers.
10 October 1861 - An obituary for Isaac Smith appears in the "South Western Baptist Newspaper."
1) Book: Marriage and Death Notices from the South Western Baptist Newspaper; compiled by Michael Kelsey, Nancy Graff Ffloyd, Ginny Guinn Parsons; Heritage Books, 1995, accessed September 20, 2008
11 October 1861 - List of Appraisement.
An appraisal of Isaac Smith’s personal property is filed in the Probate Court. The appraisers included O. P. Dark, R. H. Ware and R. C. Young.
1) Appraisal on file at Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama
2) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington.
1 November 1861 - Inventory of the Estate of Isaac Smith.
(Note: I have a photocopy of a transcript. However, I do not know who holds the original or who made the transcription. These two pages came to me with the Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Smith Barrington, but I make no assumptions about them.)
2 November 1861 - A Deposition is taken from Dr. James A. Kelly.
A Deposition is taken from Dr. James A. Kelly as to Isaac Smith’s mental factors and competence to create a will.
1) Deposition on file at Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama
2) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington.
10 December 1861 - Isaac’s Will is final, recorded in Will Book 1, 1838-1866, Pages 170-173.
1) Will on file at Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama (I have a copy.)
2) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington.
7 January 1862 - Order to Sell Slaves for Division.
Benjamin F. Smith and John J. Smith, Executors for Isaac Smith’s Will, appear before the Honorable Allen Sturdivant, Judge of Probate, to pray for an Order of the Court giving directions by which they should sell certain slaves mentioned in the eighth and ninth clauses of Isaac’s will. Allen Sturdivant, Judge of Probate, gives the immediate Order.
1) Application on file in Tallapoosa County, Alabama
2) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington.
24 March 1862 - Account and Report of Sale from the Estate of Isaac Smith.
Account and Report of Sale from the Estate of Isaac Smith is filed by B. F. Smith before the Honorable Allen D. Sturdivant, Judge of Probate
1) Accounting on file in Tallapoosa County, Alabama
2) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington.
8 October 1863 - The "Decree on final settlement of accounts" for Isaac Smith is given.
1) Probate Document on file in Tallapoosa County, Alabama
2) Smith Papers compiled by Jerry Barrington.

Some Questions:
What was this family's route to Alabama, and were they accompanied by other families?
When and where were Clara Jane and Louisa E actually born?
Who is the Robert Smith, JP that performed wedding ceremonies for several of Old Isaac's children in Lowndes County, Alabama?

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Obituary

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Although the obituary above indicates that Isaac Smith left South Carolina in 1818, we have reasons to believe otherwise.

Smith Genealogy: First Generation

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Generation No. 1

ROBERT¹ SMITH was born Bet. 1751 - 1771. He married EDY ______ Circa 1785. She was born Circa 1766.

It is believed that Robert Smith or his parents may have been the immigrant ancestor(s), having come to the United States from England or Ireland; however, nothing has yet been found to prove this thought.

I have found several leads that need more investigation:

1... 26 Mar 1798 Probate: Estate of Obediah Hendrick, late of Cumberland County, Decd. The Last Will & Testament of the Decedent was exhibited by one Robert Smith, one of the Executors named therein, and proved by witnesses thereto. On motion of said Smith, he was granted probate of the Will as executor, giving bond with William Evans. Ordered Benjamin Allen, William England, Daniel Allen and William
Palmore, or any three, do appraise in current money the Slaves, if any, and other personal property in said Estate, etc... (Cumberland County, VA, Court Orders, 17:72)
Source: www.genfiles.com/hendrick/Chronicles1780.pdf

2... A reference is made in "Sketches of Western North Carolina" by C. L. Hunter regarding the military career of one Col. Robert Smith:
"...Capt. Lemmonds’ cavalry company in the regiment commanded by Col. Robert Smith and Maj. Joseph Graham.
At the Raft Swamp, they attacked and signally defeated a large body of Tories; and in two days afterward de-feated a band of Tories on Alfred Moore's plantation opposite Wilmington, North Carolina. On the next day, the same troops made a vigorous attack on the garrison, near the same place.
...
After this service, he returned home and was frequently engaged in other minor, but important military duties until the close of the war."
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20060811231414/http://bz.llano.net/gowen/dud/manuscript/Gowenms007.htm

3... Will of Adam Meek, Sr. in:
"Mecklenburg Co., NC Will Abstract, Will Book E: p. 29 ADAM MEEK, SR. 10 Sep 1817, prb. not recorded with will.
Being unwell, I will to my son James meek my plantation of 1,000 A on the south side of Duck R. in the State of Tennessee, the negro Jess, and Flavel's Works in two volumes; to my grandson Adam Meek, son of James, the negro Jack; to my sons-in-law Joseph Wallace and John Wilson $100 each; and to my dau Mary Wallace the two books Owen on Communion and Dickinson's Familiar Letters; to my dau Ann Wilson, the two books the Saints Rest and Brown's Catechism; and to my son Robert Meek the plantation of 400 A where he now lives on McDowells Ck., negroes Bill and Dinah and the care of the elderly negro woman Guinea, my writing desk and Family Bible, Erskine s Work's in 10 volumes, and $50. I give to my granddau Elizabeth Meek, dau of Robert, the negro Jean; to James Meek, son of Robert, 140 A on the southeast end of the plantation I now live on adj Robert Smith; to Adam Meek, son of Robert, $50; to my grand dau Sarah Meek Scott 90 A on the west side of the plantation I live on as surveyed by William Wilson; and to Elizabeth Meek, Jane Meek and William Alexander Lees Meek, children of Samuel Meek, decd, the price of the land the sd Samuel lived on which is now sold for $1,000 which I divide as follows: $300 to Elizabeth, $300 to Jane, $400 to William. I give to my niece Agness Hunter 108 A including improvements where I now live agreeable to a plat by George Alexander made 15 apr 1813 as well as her spinning wheel, a chair, her bed and furniture, two cows, two sheep, half of my pewter and tin ware, a walnut chest, the second biggest pot, her mare and colt, the negro Tilly. At my demise Agness is also to have a third of any crop growing on the ground willed to her after the present crop is gathered. I will to my grandson Moses Meek, son of Robert, the negro Abner. All the remainder of my estate is to be sold and the proceeds, after payment of my just debts, are to be divided among the following: James and Robert Meek, Mary Wallace, each of the sons of Robert, Adam and Robert. Exrs: Trusty friend Matthew Wallace and son Robert Meek. Wit: Col. R. W. Smith, Matt. Wallace, Jane Corum and Edyth Smith."

notice; the Robert Smith mentioned in this document was a Col. in the American Rev. His wife Edy, what she went by, was a Wallace and related to the Matt Wallace (Father of the Joseph Wallace mentined in will) that signed the will. She's the Edyth that wit it too. Robert Smith later migrated to northwestern South Carolina with his wife Edy and their son, Robert, where they had at least one other son and daughter. The other son was Isaac and the daughter Ann.
Adma [sic] Meeks son, Robert, married Hannah Donelson and they had at least six children. Their oldest daughter Rebecca Married a Conger and they had one son born before John Conger died. He was Robert Eli. Robert Eli married Naccy [sic] Rhodes and trhey had 10 children and their oldest daughter Frances Parthni [sic] married S.M. Martin. They had 11 children and their oldest Daughter Sarah Jane married Bud Smith, which brings me back to why I mentioned migration of Robert Smith at the beginning. Bud Smith descended through this line. Isn't it interesting how old families marry into the old families they wer neighbors which in the generations before?
Source: I am trying to relocate the site where this was listed.
A different source lists the witnesses of this will sligthly differently: http://www.afrigeneas.com/slavedata/Meek-MD-NC-1752.txt

KNOWN Children of ROBERT SMITH and EDY ______ are:
i. ISAAC² SMITH, b. 17 May 1786, South Carolina, USA; d. 24 Jul 1861, Youngsville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA;

m¹ SARA REBECCA LONDERS, Bet. 1801 - 1802, South Carolina, USA; b. 24 Mar 1787, probably South Carolina,, USA; d. Bet. Feb 1837 - Aug 1848, Youngsville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA;
m² MARY JANE GOULDING, 24 Aug 1848, Coosa County, Alabama
m³ LUCY L. MCLENDON, bef. Dec 1856; b. Circa 1814.

Robert's wife, Edy, is only listed by her first name (or nickname) in the GW Smith Bible record. There was no maiden name mentioned.
Some reports indicate that there may have been at least two more children born to this union: Robert W. Smith and Ann Smith. Additionally, I have found other Smiths living near both Robert and Isaac on census records; but I have not been able to confirm whether or not they are related.

If you are a descendant of Robert Smith, I would like to here from you.

Continue to the Second Generation

Smith Genealogy: Second Generation

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Generation No. 2

1. ISAAC² SMITH (ROBERT¹) was born 17 May 1786 in Clarendon County, Camden District, South Carolina, USA, and died 24 Jul 1861 at The Smith Place (his plantation), near Youngsville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA. He married three times -- (1) SARA REBECCA LONDERS Bet. 1801 - 1802 in South Carolina. She was born 24 Mar 1787 in South Carolina, USA, and died December 1846 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA. He married (2) MARY JANE GAULDING on 24 Aug 1848 in Coosa County, Alabama. He married (3) LUCY L. MCLENDON before Dec 1856. She was born Circa 1828, and she was his wife at the time of his death.

According to census and other records paired with some conjecture and analysis of data we have come to the conclusion that Isaac Smith was born in the Camden District, South Carolina in 17 May 1786, and he died in Tallapoosa County, Alabama on July 24, 1861.

We know Isaac Smith was married no less than three times. His first wife’s name was Sara Rebecca Londers; she chose to be called Rebecca. They were married (by estimate) in 1801 or 1802 as their first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1803 in South Carolina. From the 1820 Federal Census, we believe Isaac Smith relocated his family from Clarendon County in the Sumter District to Union County in District Ninety-Six, where he was listed as the overseer on the Estate of J. F. Gist. This move may have occured between the births of the first and second child because there is a four year span between their births. (It is possible that another child was born and died during that period, as well; but I have found no records that indicate such.) We know the family relocated again to Alabama by way of Georgia during the early 1820s, because the third son of the family, John J., was born in Georgia during or after the month of June 1822.

The first record we have found in Alabama for Isaac Smith is during the early 1820s where he settled in Montgomery County. While the family sojourned there, the area where they lived, which was simply called the Community of Brother John Browning, became part of Lowndes County, Alabama.

During the 1830 Census of Lowndes County, Alabama, one female 40-50 is listed with the family. This would be Rebecca. She also appears on the membership list of the Fellowship Primitive Baptist Chruch in Youngville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, founded in part by her husband, after February 1837. Again, she appears (1 female age 50 - 60) on the 1840 Census at Fishpond, Coosa County, Alabama with her husband and three of their sons, George, Benjamin and Andrew. Therefore, it can be surmised that Rebecca (Londers) Smith died between Jun 1840 - Aug 1848, when Isaac married his second wife, Mary Jane Goulding. However, some family records have her death recorded as December 1846, stating the date was recorded in church records. (However, to date, I have found no definitive records that make this claim.)

Very little is known about Isaac's second wife, Mary Jane Gaulding. Isaac married Mary Jane Gaulding on Aug. 24, 1848 in Coosa County, Alabama, and she was still with him and present during the legal process of a land conveyance in May 1854, where Isaac Smith and wife Mary Jane were selling property to one William Bice. Between September 1855 to December 1856 Yellow Fever took a large toll on the population in Alabama. It is our belief that Mary Jane (Gaulding) Smith may have succumbed to this particular outbreak.

By December of 1856, Isaac Smith was already married to a Lucy L. M. (M^cLendon). She, being his wife at the time of his death, was some 42 years younger than Isaac. Less is known about Lucy L. M. Smith than either of Isaac's previous wives, but we believe she was a golddigger. I have seen family notes implying that Lucy's last name may have been Martin. However, it seems that the consensus believes she was a M^cLendon, as there were M^cLendons, suspected to be her brother's family, living with the Smith family at the time of the 1860 census.

Isaac Smith, reportedly one of the wealthiest men during the early history of Tallapoosa County, Alabama, possessed as many as forty slaves (perhaps more realizing that eight of them were mere children when he died) and considerable acreage that he both planted and tended regularly. He was a learned man, probably self-taught, for he could both read and write. Additionally, his knowledge about land acquisitions and management was probably learned through experience, trial and error.

His plantation in Tallapoosa County, known as The Smith Place, was comprised of a number of land grants and conveyances that Isaac won through lotteries or he bought over the years. Upon his death, this southern gentleman owned one square mile of land plus an adjoining one-hundred acers, giving him a total of 740 acers. The Smith Place harvested large bumper crops of wheat, peas, potatoes, oats and corn. Each year the plantings also yielded thousands of pounds of fodder for feeding livestock. The largest portion of the plantation, however, was reserved for the cultivation of cotton. According to what was sold from Isaac's "perishable property" in accordance with a dictum of the probate court, the cotton produced during the year Isaac died was in excess of 1,500 bushels. (That is nearly 50,000 pounds of cotton produced and harvested from one planting. At 30 cents on the pound -the going rate for cotton in that year- a harvest of that size easily could bring $15,000 or better in a good year.)

In addition to the fields, a large portion of the land was set aside for both farming implements and livestock; oxen, cattle, pigs, horses, mules, geese and shoats - all entered on the Estate's Sales Report, received by Probate Judge A. D. Sturdivant on 28 January 1862.

On 4 July 1861, Isaac Smith drew his Last Will and Testament after having fallen (possibly from a great height) sometime during the previous May, being ill and debilitated from that time forward. According to one record, he was "ill" for "about seventy-five days," before he passed away. In a deposition taken from Isaac's attending physician, Dr. James A. Kelly, said, "The nature of his disease, I supposed, to have received from an injury received in a fall which terminated, in cough and nausea at the stomach. The disease so far as I was able to Judge [sic] did not impair his mental faculties... I never saw the deceased out of his mind - he was weak and a good deal [illegible] but I considered him possessed of sufficient mind and memory to make a Will and dispose of property. The effect of [illegible] and severe pain upon the body is various ..sometimes it impairs a man’s mental faculties and sometimes it strengthens them." Isaac Smith died 24 July 1861. His will was contested, forcing his estate into probate, where it remained for two years and three months, finally being resolved and filed on 8 October 1863.

Several months after Isaac's death, an obituary was published:

'South Western Baptist Newspaper'
Death Notices
published 10-10-1861

"Departed this life at his residence in Tallapoosa County, Alabama on the 24th day of July 1861, Brother Isaac Smith, after a protracted illness of about seventy-five days. Isaac Smith was born in the Sumpter District, South Carolina May 17, 1786. He joined the Baptist Church in 1811..., He moved from South Carolina in 1818 and settled in what was then Montgomery County but afterwards Lowndes and there remaied until 1836, at that time he moved to Tallapoosa County, Alabama and here remained until his death..."

ISAAC SMITH appears in the following sources:
Census: Jun 1810, Clarendon County, Camden District, South Carolina, USA
Census: Jun 1820, Union County, District Ninety Six, South Carolina, USA
Church Membership: 17 Oct 1822, Mt Gilead Baptist Church, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA
Census: Jun 1830, Community of Brother John Browning, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA
Church Membership: Feb 1837, Fellowship Primitive Baptist, Youngsville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA
Census: Jun 1840, Fishpond, Coosa County, Alabama,USA
Court Records: Records of the Circuit Court, Minutes and Decrees Chancery Court 1852-1855:, Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama - Pages: 399-402; 440
Census: Jun 1860, Youngsville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA
Obituary: 'South Western Baptist Newspaper', Death Notices, published 10-10-1861
Probate: Between late July or early August 1861 - October 1863, Probate Court Records, Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA

SARA REBECCA (LONDERS) SMITH appears in the following sources:
Census: Jun 1810, Clarendon County, Camden District, South Carolina, USA
Census: Jun 1830, Community of Brother John Browning, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA
Church Membership: Feb 1837, Fellowship Primitive Baptist, Youngsville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA
Census: Jun 1840, Fishpond, Coosa County, Alabama

MARY JANE (GOULDING) SMITH appears in the following sources:
Marriage: Marriage Book B, Coosa County, Alabama - 1849 through 1852, pp 11, Smith, Issac to Gaulding, Mary Jane, Aug. 24, 1848, Wit: John Gaddis, J.P.
Land Conveyance: 02 May 1854, Talapoosa County, Alabama

Lucy L. (M^cLendon) Smith appears in the following sources:

Land Conveyance: Dated sometime in December 1856

(I do not have a copy of this land transaction, but I have found several references to it in other family files.)
Isaac's Will: Isaac, her husband, leaves her land, part of his home and furniture -

"SECOND: I give to my beloved wife, Lucy L. M. Smith, the north half of the southwest quarter of Section Four in Township Twenty-three of Range Twenty-one, and the south room of my dwelling house with two beds and furniture with such other household furniture that she may want - also one kitchen and cooking utensils, also the following slaves; Oliver, Caroline, and Columbus, also my gray mare mule, one cow and calf, two sows and pigs, and a sufficiency of corn fodder, oats, and wheat and meat to support them the first year, the above property all to revert to my estate at her death to be distributed as hereafter provided."

Children of ISAAC SMITH and SARA LONDERS are:
i. ELIZABETH L. SMITH, b. 25 Feb 1803, South Carolina, USA; d. Bet. 07 Sep 1825 - 1840, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA; m. JOAB STEWART, 22 Oct 1819, Dallas County, Alabama; b. Circa 1796; d. Sep 1845, Tallapoosa County, Alabama (buried in the Old Fellowhip Primitive Cemetery).
ii. MARY ANN SMITH, b. 15 Jan 1807, South Carolina, USA; d. Aug 1845, Youngsville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA; m. JEREMIAH SAMUEL JENNINGS, 07 Jul 1825, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA; b. Circa 1797, South Carolina, USA.
iii. ROBERT W. SMITH, b. 15 Mar 1809, South Carolina, USA; d. 12 May 1842, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; m. SARAH ANN PEARSON, 04 Mar 1831, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA; b. Circa 1807, South Carolina, USA; d. 07 Sep 1888, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA.
iv. ISAAC THOMAS SMITH, b. Aft. Jun 1810, South Carolina, USA; d. Bet. 1849 - 1850, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; m. MARY C. PEARSON, 18 Sep 1834, Lowndes County, Alabama; b. Circa 1808, South Carolina, USA.
v. CLARA ANN JANE SMITH, b. Bet. 1811 - 1819, South Carolina, USA; d. Circa 1850, Alabama, USA; m. WILLIAM S. CANTERBURY, 26 Jun 1834, Lowndes County, Alabama; b. Circa 1810.
vi. LOUISA E(MMA) SMITH, b. Bet. 1811 - 1819, South Carolina or Georgia; d. Circa 1841, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA; m. JAMES A. LOCKWOOD, 12 Feb 1834, Lowndes County, Alabama; b. 1811, New York.
vii. ADALINE TEMPERANCE SMITH, b. 22 Apr 1819, South Carolina or Georgia; d. 27 Dec 1912, Hanover, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; m. (1) BRISSO O'BRIAN; m. (2) WILLIAM B. KIMBROUGH, 11 Jul 1837, Tallapoosa County, Alabama; d. Circa 1855, Possibly Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
viii. JOHN J. SMITH, SR., b. Bet. Jan - Jun 1822, Georgia, USA; d. Aft. 1861, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; m. MARY FRANCES PODY, 26 Dec 1842, Coosa County, Alabama; b. Circa 1823, Wilkes County, Georgia; d. 31 Dec 1850, Coosa County, Alabama.
ix. GEORGE³ WASHINGTON SMITH, b. 12 Aug 1825, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA; d. 24 Aug 1897, near Kellyton, Coosa County, Alabama, USA; m. MARY ANN SPIVEY, 19 Jan 1842, Coosa County, Alabama; b. 08 Nov 1822, Johnston County, South Carolina (or possibly Autauga County, Alabama); d. 06 Aug 1915, Kellyton, Coosa County, Alabama.
x. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SMITH, b. Jan 1828, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA; d. Aft. 1861; m. LUCY E. CORNELIUS, 19 Sep 1851, Coosa County, Alabama.
xi. ANDREW JACKSON SMITH, b. Circa 1831, Lowndes County, Alabama, USA; d. Bet. 04 Jul 1861 - 08 Oct 1863, Possibly in Mississippi; m. ADELINE DELOACH, 04 Jul 1858, Coosa County, Alabama; b. Circa 1834, South Carolina.

There were no children born to Isaac's other marriages beyond Sara Rebecca that I am aware of.

Transcription: Smith Family Bible

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1-Robert Smith and wife Edy-------------

11 Issue- Isaac Smith -b. 17/May/1786
His wife-Rebecca -b. 24/Mar/1786

111-issue-
1- Elizabeth -b. 25/Feb/1803
2- Mary Ann -b. 15/Jan/1807
3- Robert W. -b.15/Mar/1809
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
1- Benjamin F. Smith and wife Lucy E.
issue-
1- Isaac Wallis -b /Nov/1852
2- John Franklin -b. 8/Jul/1854
3- William Wallis -b. 6/Aug/1856
4- Ellen Mariah -b. 23/Jul/1858 -d. 13/Sept/1865
5- Isaac -b. 30/Jun/1861

Information about this Bible record:
This bible has been passed down through at least three generations. I last knew in 1971, it was in the hands of Coye Smith Barnett, who is a direct descendant of Isaac's son, George Washinton (G. W.) Smith. She is the wife of William Fred Barnett from Goodwater, Alabama. The transcript of the family page was passed to me from Bettye R. Lessley, also a direct descendant of G. W. Smith.

A note accompanting the above transcription said:
The following was copied from an old Smith Bible (G. W. Smith family)

I would like to know if anyone has a scanned copy or photocopy of this record that you can share.