Person:Thomas Smith (287)

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Brig. Gen. Thomas Adams Smith
m.
  1. Francis SmithAbt 1773 -
  2. John "Jack" Smith T, ColonelAbt 1775 - 1835
  3. Ebenezer SmithAbt 1777 -
  4. William Wilkinson SmithAbt 1779 -
  5. Brig. Gen. Thomas Adams Smith1781 - 1844
  6. Anne Adams Smith1783 - 1823
  7. Reuben SmithAbt 1785 -
m. 17 Sep 1807
  1. Lucy Anne Smith1812 - 1867
  2. James White Smith1815 - 1851
  3. Mary Lawson Smith1817 - 1818
  4. Hugh Lawson Smith1818 - 1819
  5. Reuben Smith1822 - 1843
  6. Dr. Crawford Early Smith1825 - 1886
  7. Troup Smith1827 - 1850
  8. Cynthia White Smith1829 - 1869
Facts and Events
Name Brig. Gen. Thomas Adams Smith
Gender Male
Birth[1][4][5] 12 Aug 1781 Essex, Virginia, United Statesat Piscataway, 5th of 7 children
Marriage 17 Sep 1807 Knox, Tennessee, United Statesto Cynthia Berry White
Residence[4] Bef 1812 Georgia
Military[4] Brigadier General
Death[1] 25 Jun 1844 Napton, Saline, Missouri, United Statesage 62 -
Burial[3] Memorial Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Napton, Saline, Missouri, United States
Other[4] Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States[city is named for him]
Reference Number? Q18394219?

Research Notes

  • per Marshall Democrat News article3: In Nov 2009, The Experiment Farm was honored as a Century Farm for being in the same family for 100 years or more. At the time it was owned by Tom and Betty Maxwell, she being a g-g-granddaughter of Thomas Adams Smith. ... Members of the Smith family helped to build Memorial Presbyterian Church on the farm in the early 1900s, in front of the family cemetery where Thomas Adams Smith and many generations of the family are buried. Rock for that church also came from the family quarry. The first service in the new church was held on Aug. 28, 1904. Regular services were held there until recent years. Currently, one service a year is still held there, "God, Land and the Man." That service has been held yearly since 1968.

Associated Links

  • National Society United States Daughters of 1812 - Brigadier General Thomas A. Smith Chapter No. 260, Marshall, Missouri - Brig. General Smith, for whom the chapter is named, was a native of Virginia. In 1818, he resigned his position in the army, came to Missouri and was appointed receiver of the general land office at Old Franklin, Missouri. He moved across the Missouri River to Saline County, Missouri, about 1826 and established a large farm he called “Experiment” located near present day Napton, Missouri.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 GENEALOGY OF THE ADAMS FAMILY OF NEW KENT AND HENRICO COUNTIES, VA. , in William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Omohundro Institute)
    5:159-164, 1897.

    ... i. Francis Smith, of "Piscataway," Essex Co., and subsequently of Georgia ; married Lucy Wilkinson, and had, with other issue, Thomas Adams Smith (b. 12 Aug., 1781 ; d. 25 June, 1844), Brig. General U.S. Army, whose eldest child, Lucy Anne Smith, (b. 11 Nov. 1812 ; d. 18 Feb., 1867), married Judge Beverly Tucker, Professor of Law in the College of William and Mary, &c.

  2.   Davis, T. Frederick. United States Troops in Spanish East Florida, 1812-13, in Florida historical society quarterly
    9:3-23, Jul 1930.

    [article is written based on the personal papers and diary of Gen. Thomas Adams Smith located in the archives of the State Historical Society of Missouri]

  3. Saline County Century Farm: 'Experiment Farm' one of county's oldest, still has vestiges of early days, in Marshall Democrat-News (Missouri)
    9 Feb 2010.

    ... Thomas Adams Smith and his wife had eight children. The only surviving son, Crawford Early Smith, (1825-1886) married Virginia Penn in 1852 and took over the farm. They had 10 children. One daughter, Virginia, married Thomas Bryon Hall, and another, Lucy, married Leonard Tillman Stouffer. Both husbands were farmers. Betty's grandfather was George Penn Smith, who was born at The Experiment in 1864. He married Lucy Vaughan. They had six children, and he was an active farmer living on the land. Their son, George Penn Smith Jr., Betty's father, was born on the farm. After college at the University of Missouri and Missouri Valley College, he married Magdalen Knox. ...

  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Thomas Adams Smith, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
    last accessed 5 Jul 2015.

    Thomas Adams Smith was an American military officer and later government official in the first half of the 19th century. He commanded troops in the "Patriot War" in Spanish East Florida. He commanded the Regiment of Riflemen and later the Ninth Military Department. He was a slave owner. The city of Fort Smith, Arkansas is named for Smith.

  5. Smith, Thomas Adams (1781-1844), Papers, 1798-1864.

    [This collection is available at The State Historical Society of Missouri. If you would like more information, please contact shsresearch@umsystem.edu.]

  6.   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Omohundro Institute)
    6:49, 1898.

    ... VII. Brig. Gen. Thomas Adams Smith, U.S.A, (Francis,4 Col. Francis,3 Capt. Nicholas,2 Nicholas 1), born at "Piscataway," Essex Co. Va., 12 Aug., 1781 ; died at "Experiment," his seat in Saline Co., Mo., 25 June, 1844. He entered the United States Army as ensign; was commissioned 2d lieutenant of artillerists, 15 Dec, 1803; 1st lieutenant, 31 Dec, 1805 ; captain of Rifles (the crack regiment of the army), 3 May, 1808; lieutenant-colonel, 31 July, 1810; colonel, 6 July, 1812; brevet Brigadier-General, "for distinguished and meritorious services," 24 Jan., 1814 ; Brigadier-General, 25 Jan., 1815; resigned his commission in the army, 10 Nov. 1818.

    On the opening of hostilities in the war of 1812 his regiment was ordered to the North, taking part in the engagements at Plattsburg, Sackett's Harbor, Burlington, etc. In 1815 he was stationed at Belle Fontaine, near St. Louis, as commander-in-chief of the Territories of Missouri and Illinois, which command he held until his resignation from the army. In 1817 Gen. William Henry Harrison wrote of him as "the most accomplished officer in the service." Forth Smith, Arkansas, is named in his honor.

    On his resignation from the army he was appointed by President Monroe Receiver of Public Monies at Franklin, Mo., the most lucrative position in the West", which he resigned in 1826, retiring to his seat, "Experiment," where he became "the foremost man in the section." (Hist. Register U.S. Army  ; Original Commissions and Correspondence.)

    He married, 17 Sept., 1807, Cynthia Berry (born near Knoxville, Tenn., 7 Apr., 1786; died at "Aldie," Loudoun Co., Va., 11 Aug., 1855), third daughter of Brig. Gen. James and Mary (Lawson) White, of Knoxville, Tenn., and sister of Hon. Hugh Lawson White. (Post, note 2.)

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