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John "Jack" Smith T, Colonel
Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
John "Jack" Smith T, Colonel |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth? |
Abt 1775 |
Essex, Virginia, United States |
| Marriage |
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to Nancy Walker |
| Education? |
Bef 1802 |
VirginiaWilliam and Mary College |
| Residence? |
1802 |
Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States |
| Residence[4] |
1804 |
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, United Statesat Shibboleth |
| Residence? |
Aft 1804 |
Texas |
| Residence? |
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Georgia |
| Residence[4] |
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Saline, Missouri, United Statesowned over 2000 ac of land |
| Death[7] |
Mar 1835 |
Tennesseesupposedly died of fever while on a trip to Tennessee |
| Burial? |
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Jefferson, Missouri, United Statesno stone exists - supposedly buried at "The White Cliffs" of Selma, overlooking the Mississippi River |
References
- ↑ William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Omohundro Institute)
6:48, 1898.
... Issue [of Francis Smith and Lucy Wilkinson] (named in wills and Bible records):
... 2. John (who wrote the letter "T" after his name by way of distinction), of Missouri, where he had extensive land grants. (U.S. Land Office Records.) He was a noted duellist, and is "said to have killed twelve or thirteen men in his various personal encounters. ... He died in his bed, an old man, on his estate, thirty miles below St. Louis." John F. Dabney's Personal Recollections" contains a sketch of John Smith T. He married and left issue only a daughter, who married, first. Dr. Deadrick, secondly, James M. White, both of St. Louis, Mo., where their descendants are yet living. ...
- Four states genealogist. (Tulsa, Oklahoma: Indian Nations Press, 1969-1973)
1:37-41, 1968.
Hook, Charlene and John F. Darby. Who Was John Smith T?
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Higginbothan, Valle. John Smith T: Missouri Pioneer. Private printing. Located in State Historical Society of Missouri Library.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Stevens, Walter Barlow. Centennial history of Missouri (the center state): one hundred years in the Union, 1820-1921. (St. Louis, Missouri: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., c1921)
2:543, 544.
- Shoemaker, Floyd C. (Floyd Calvin). Missouri's hall of fame : lives of eminent Missourians. (Columbia, Missouri: Missouri Book Co., , 1923)
134.
- Darby, John F. Personal recollections of many prominent people whom I have known, and of events, especially of those relating to the history of St. Louis, during the first half of the present century. (St. Louis: G.I. Jones and Co., 1880).
- ↑ Napton, William Barclay. Past and present of Saline County, Missouri. (Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co., 1910)
350-356.
... Col. Jack Smith T went to Tennessee, in the neighborhood of Memphis, in 1835, to open a cotton plantation and here he died with disease, none but his negroes being present. His remains were afterwards brought up on a steamboat to Selma, in Jefferson county, Missouri, where his son-in-law, James M. White, lived, and was buried in March 1835. ...
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Frontier Swashbuckler: The Life and Legend of John Smith T, by Dick Steward.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000. x, 264 pp. Illustrations,
notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth.
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