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Facts and Events
1870 Federal Census
- Smith County, Arkansas
- Household Gender Age Birthplace
- Byrd B Smith M 73y Virginia
- Frances K Smith F 62y Tennessee
Notes
- From Genforum Message Board:
- Byrd Smith, born May 12, 1790, on a farm near Richmond, in Madison county, Kentucky. He declined to go with the family to Arkansas in 1808, but remained in Kentucky. He was then about eighteen years old. He was apprenticed and learned the tanner's trade which he followed for many years. He was a volunteer soldier in the War of 1812 and came near being in the massacre at River Raisin. It so happened that at that time he was detained in a hospital by sickness. The war over, he returned home and after a few years went to Halifax county, Virginia, and engaged in tanning and farming. He was married on June 17, 1818, to Sarah Hatcher Woodson of Cumberland county, the ceremony being performed by Rev. John Watkins. They settled at Danville, in Pittsylvania county, where he established his tanyard and also engaged in farming. He had no schooling: could neither read nor write until his wife taught him. They were both ardent members of the Baptist Church. He was a man of most untiring energy, quiet in manner, not easily provoked. She was—well, she was a Woodson.
- Broken up by the payment of security debts, they migrated about 1845 to Missouri, whither some of their children had already gone. From then until their death they lived alternately with their children in Missouri and Virginia, and had no permanent abiding place. Both died at the residence of their son-in-law, Rev. Carr W. Pritchett, in Glasgow, Missouri; she on November 5, 1867, and he on February 12, 1872, and are buried side by side in the cemetery at Fayette, Howard county, Missouri." (This sketch by T. Berry Smith.)
- [Source: http://genforum.genealogy.com/smith/messages/64958.html].
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