by Rocky Macy
(The continuing saga of the SMTH family of the South Division of Smith County,Tennessee, who migrated to southwest Missouri in 1856-1857 - and many of their descendants.)
Profiles of the SMITH siblings, in birth order:
1. Mary Jane SMITH
Mary Jane, the oldest sibling, was born in Tennessee around 1828. She did not leave much of a paper trail during her nearly forty years as a pioneer heading from Tennessee (where she was born and grew up), to Kentucky (where she married), to Missouri, and finally to Texas (where she likely died). As already mentioned, Mary Jane was living in the household of Catherine SMITH, who was likely her mother, in the South Division of Smith County, Tennessee, in 1850.
Also previously mentioned in this profile was the fact that Mary Jane married James Mayberry SCARBROUGH in Logan County, Kentucky, on August 7, 1856. At that time the couple already had a daughter, Sarah “Sallie” A., who had been born in 1853. Sallie was either born without the benefit of married parents or she was James’ or Mary Jane’s daughter from a previous relationship. The couple’s second child, Nancy Anthaline SCARBROUGH (my great-grandmother), was born in Missouri on May 28, 1857.
James and Mary Jane and their oldest daughter moved from Kentucky to Missouri between August of 1856 when the couple were married and May of the following year when Nancy Anthaline was born. When the 1860 census was taken they were living in Sarcoxie Township, Jasper County, Missouri. Mary Jane’s birth family, the SMITHs and her married sister, Sarah “Sallie” Ann (SMITH) HANKINS and her family were all living in McDonald Township of Jasper County, a township which was adjacent to Sarcoxie Township.
Catherine, the third SCARBROUGH child, was born in Missouri in 1862, and James William SCARBROUGH, the fourth and final child was born (according to his obituary) in Sien, Texas, on December 13, 1868.
(This researcher has been unable to locate any record of a Texas community by the name of “Sien.” Mary Jane’s youngest sister, Martha Pafrthena F. SMITH, was married to D.M. CLINE on Christmas Day in 1864 in Marion County, Texas, so it is possible that James and Mary Jane SCARBROUGH and their family were living in that area.)
After the birth of James William SCARROUGH in Texas on December 13th, 1868, James Mayberry and Mary Jane (SMITH) SCARBROUGH both disappear from the public record until they are noted posthumously in the marriage and death records related to their son, James William SCARBROUGH and by their surnames only in the death certificate of their daughter, Nancy Anthaline (SCARBROUGH) ROARK.
By the time of the 1870 US census the four SCARBROUGH children were listed in the household of their maternal uncle, William C. SMITH, of Buffalo Township, Newton County, Missouri. That census listed the names and ages as: Nancy A. Scarbrough (13), Catharine (8), William (4), and Sarah A. (22). (William would have been a little less than two-years-old, and Sarah would have been around seventeen. Sarah’s age might have gotten conflated with that of Lucinda, William’s wife, who was twenty-two.)
Neither Mary Jane nor James Mayberry SCARBROUGH were in the William C. SMITH household at that time, leaving open the possibility that they died in Texas and the children were removed to the care of a relative who was able to offer them a home where they all could remain together.
James William SCARBROUGH’s obituary in 1911, which was likely written by his sister, Nancy, stated that his parents “died young.”
2. Sarah “Sallie” Ann SMITH
Sarah “Sallie,” the second oldest sibling, was born in Tennessee around 1830. By the time of the 1850 census she was already married to Timothy W. HANKINS, a farmer, and the mother of a one-year-old son. At that time they were living on the same property as Sarah’s birth family in the South District of Smith County, Tennessee, and Timothy’s younger brother John and his wife, Mary, were also residing in that household.
By the time of the 1860 census Timothy and Sarah and their family were living in McDonald Township of Jasper County, Missouri, again in close proximity to Sarah’s birth family, and John and Mary HANKINS were no longer part of their household. In addition to Timothy W. HANKINS (age 35) and Sarah A. HANKINS (age 29), the household also included the following HANKINS children: William F. (9, TN), Andrew T. (8, TN), John H. (7, KY), Louisa C. (4, KY), and Parthena J. (2, MO).
Thus far those two census records represent the extent of what is known about Timothy and Sarah “Sallie” Ann (SMITH) HANKINS. Two of their children, Andrew and Parthena, went on to become heirs of William C. SMITH.
3. John A. SMITH
John A. SMITH was born January 11, 1831, in Tennessee. He died at the age of sixty-nine in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, on November 15, 1900, and is buried at Arlington Cemetery in Prague, Lincoln County, Oklahoma.
John was living with his birth family when the US censuses fr 1850 and 1860 were taken. He married Delania POE. As of yet he has not been located on the 1870 US census, but by the time of the 1880 census he was living with his wife, Delania, in Buffalo Township of Newton County, Missouri, along with their first three children: Melvin N. SMITH (age 9), Nancy A. SMITH (4) and Joel W. SMITH (1).
Delania (sometimes referred to as “Delana” and “Delamia” in various records) was the daughter of Bennett and Susanna POE of Pineville, McDonald County, Missouri. She was born in September of 1851 in Missouri. At the time of the 1860 census Delania was eight-years-old and living with her birth family. Also in that household were her father, Bennett POE (53), mother, “Susannah” Poe (42), and siblings (all POEs): Elizabeth (20), William (15) Joel C. (12), John (4), and Martha J. (1). By the time of the 1870 US census she was still living with her birth family and listed as “Delana” (age 18). Also in the household were her mother, Susanna (53) and sister, Martha J. (11).
By 1880 Delania POE was married to John A. SMITH and had three children. That suggests that John A. SMITH and Delania POE were married sometime between the time the 1870 census was taken and the US census of 1880, and likely in 1870 or 1871 prior to the birth of their first child, Melvin N. SMITH.
John and Delania (POE) SMITH went on to have at least eight children (Melvin N., Nancy Delilah, Joel W., Stella May, James Carroll, Bennett A., Hugh Elmer, and Robert M. - seven of whom became heirs to the estate of their uncle, William C. SMITH. Joel W. SMITH, who was born around 1879, was the only non-heir. Joel was no longer with the family by the time the 1900 US census was taken. He may have died in the interim between 1880 and 1900, or moved away and become estranged from the family.
Five of the SMITH children were living at home with their mother, Delania, when John died in 1900. Delania (POE) SMITH has not been located on the 1910 census, but when the census was taken in 1920 she was at the home of her son, Hugh Elmer SMITH and his wife, Mary, in Madilla, Marshall County, Oklahoma. Various family sources at Ancestry.com suggest that she died in 1926.
4. Andrew Jackson SMITH
Andrew Jackson SMITH was born in 1836 in Tennessee. He died on March 11, 1900, and is buried at Potts Cemetery, Charleston, Franklin County, Arkansas, next to his wife, Clarinda (1847-1901).
Andrew married Clarinda CARR, the daughter of George W. and Allison (LOGAN) CARR, in Pope County, Arkansas, on October 17, 1869. Their first child, Nancy Katherine SMITH, was born on July 28, 1870. Nancy had not been named by the time the 1870 census taker arrived, and she is listed on that census as “Not named Smith” with an age of 1/12. Also in the SMITH family household in Illinois Township, Pope County, Arkansas, in 1870 was Clarinda’s younger brother, Thomas CARR, age 21.
By the time that the 1880 US census took place, the SMITH family was residing in Prairie Township, Franklin County, Arkansas. At that time they had three children: Nancy Katherine (listed as “Nancy C.”) age 9, Mary F. (8), and James Washington (listed as “James W.”) age 5.
The family of Andres Jackson SMITH was located in Washburn Township, Logan County, Arkansas, when the 1900 census was taken. Nancy and James had already left the family by that time, and Mary F. had disappeared from the public record. Two new children had been added to the family during the interim between the 1880 and 1900 censuses: Thomas Walter (listed as “Thomas W.”) age 16, and Theodore Newton (listed as “Theodore N..”), age 12.
All of the children of Andrew Jackson and Clarinda (CARR) SMITH went on to become heirs of Andrew’s brother, William C. SMITH, with the exception of Mary F. SMITH who likely died sometime prior to 1900.
5. William C. SMITH
William C. SMITH was born December 18, 1839, in Tennessee. He died on February 8, 1920, at his home in Seneca, Newton County, Missouri, and is buried in the Swars Prairie Baptist Cemetery in rural Newton County, Missouri. William was married to Lucinda (maiden name unknown) in 1868. Lucinda was born in January of 1848 in Tennessee. She died in 1909 and is buried next to William in the Swars Prairie Baptist Cemetery.
William and Lucinda had no children of their own but at various times they opened their home to relatives and others. The four children of William’s oldest sibling, Mary Jane (SMITH) SCARBROUGH were residents in the home of William and Lucinda SMITH of Buffalo Township, Newton County, Missouri, when the 1870 census was taken. The children were likely orphans at that point. William and Lucinda had been married less than two years when Sarah A., Nancy A., Catherine, and James William SCARBROUGH came to live with them.
Nancy Anthaline SCARBROUGH was married to Samuel James ROARK in the home of William and Lucinda SMITH on December 10, 1876. James William SCARBROUGH was still in the William and Lucinda SMITH household when the 1880 US census listed him as “James W. Scarbrough,” age 14. The other two SCARBROUGH siblings, Sarah “Sallie” A. and Catherine, were no longer in that household in 1880.
Lucinda SMITH passed away in 1909, and by the time the US census was taken the following year in 1910, William had three apparent non-relatives living with him. James STEVENSON (22) was listed on the census as a “farm laborer” to William, and James’ wife, Pinar L. STEVENSON (17) was noted as William’s housekeeper. The STEVENSON’s had an infant daughter, Ova M. STEVENSON, who was less than a year old and also a member of William's household.
William C. SMITH died on February 8, 1920, but was included on the 1920 census. At the time the census was taken, though William was already deceased but counted, his niece, Martha Alene “Allie” CLINE REED (the daughter of William’s younger sister, Martha Parthena SMITH CLINE), along with her husband, Edward Earl REED, and daughter, Eunice E. REED, were all living in William’s house. Allie (CLINE) REED was later an heir to William’s estate, and one of the defendants in the subsequent court action over the estate.
6 Elizabeth M. SMITH
Elizabeth M. SMITH was born in Tennessee around 1841. She was residing with her birth family in the South Division of Smith County, Tennessee, when the US census was taken in 1850. Elizabeth married David Wilson BOYD (born November of 1838 in Missouri) shortly after she and her family arrived in Missouri in 1856 or 1857.
So far it has not been determined where Elizabeth and David (and either one or two very young daughters) were living when the 1860 US census was taken, but by the time of the 1870 census they were residing in Granby Township of Newton County, Missouri, along with five children: (Sarah (12), Martha (10), Mary (8), Margaret (2) and James (2/12).
Also in the BOYD household in 1870 were two male “farm laborers” whose ages were both listed as twenty. Those young men were James SMITH, possibly Elizabeth’s youngest sibling or perhaps a cousin, who was born in Tennessee around 1849 and grew up in Elizabeth’s birth household, and William HANKINS, likely Elizabeth’s nephew, the oldest child of Timothy and Sarah “Sallie” A. HANKINS (Elizabeth’s older sister), who was born in Tennessee around 1849.
The BOYD family was living in Erie Township, MdDonald County, Missouri, when the 1880 US census was taken. At that time David and Elizabeth had four children remaining at home: Mary E. (17), Maggie (13), William (10), and Johnnie (8). “William” of the 1880 census was likely “James” of the 1870 census, perhaps named after James and William, the “farm laborers” and likely relatives who were in the household at the time of his birth. (Elizabeth SMITH BOYD’s oldest sister, Mary Jane SMITH SCARBROUGH, also has a son named James William.)
David Wilson BOYD was living in Anderson, McDonald County, Missouri, at the time of the 1900 US census, and he was listed on the census as a widower, an indication that Elizabeth had died sometime between 1880 and 1900.
7. Martha Parthena F. SMITH
Martha Parthena F. SMITH was born around 1844 in Tennessee and was residing with her birth family when the 1850 and 1860 censuses were taken. She married James D.M. CLINE in Marion County, Texas, on December 25, 1864. By the time of the 1870 census six years later, James and Martha (SMITH) CLINE were living in Illinois Township, Pope County, Arkansas, along with three children: Cassandra J. (age 3), Lydia F. (2) and James W. L. (3 months). Martha P.F. CLINE was listed as 25 on that census, and James D.M. had his age recorded as twenty-nine.
The CLINE family was in Holly Bend, Pope County, Arkansas, at the time of the 1880 US census. That census taker listed all family members by initials along with their complete surname. Present in the household were J.D.M. (James) CLINE (39), M.P.F. (Martha) CLINE (36), C.J. (Cassandra) CLINE (12), L.F. (Lydia) CLINE (10), J.W.L. (James) CLINE (9), J.A. (John Andrew) CLINE (7), B.D.H. (Ben) CLINE (1874-1880), and H.M. (Henry) CLINE (2).
Martha Parthena F. (SMITH) CLINE presumably died prior to October 1, 1896, when James D.M. CLINE married his second wife, Tennessee HOOKER, in Pope County, Arkansas.
8. James W. SMITH
James W. SMITH, who was a one-year-old in the SMITH household of 1850 in South Division of Smith County, Tennessee, was possibly a sibling of the older SMITH children. He disappeared from the public record after the 1870 census and was not an inheritor in the 1920 estate of William C.SMITH.
(Part III of “One SMITH Family” will focus on the court action over the estate of William C. SMITH.)
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