William Smith
Family

c. 1785 - 1857

NAME BORN DIED CEMETERY
William Smith #1036 c. 1785
Georgia
8 Jul 1857
Tallahatchie Co., Mississippi
Ross
Tallahatchie County, Mississippi
Married: c. 1806
(unknown)
Prob. Georgia
Prob. Georgia


Children:
Willis Smith
29 Jan 1807
Mississippi
10 Mar 1872
Winn Parish, Louisiana
Guynes Cemetery
Pollock, Grant, Louisiana
Rebecca Smith
married:
(unknown Carpenter)

Mississippi


Sarah Smith
Mississippi


Matilda B. Smith
married:
William J. Dunn
c. 1814-16
Mississippi


Married: 26 Nov 1820
Elizabeth Jenkins
Lawrence Co., Mississippi
c. 1805
24 Apr 1872
Tallahatchie County, Mississippi
Ross
Tallahatchie County, Mississippi
Children:
Mary Smith
married:
Isaac Smith
1821
Mississippi


Rolla Miles Smith, Sr. 8 Mar 1822
Mississippi
14 Nov 1873
Rosebloom, Tallahatchie, Mississippi
Smith
Rosebloom, Tallahatchie, Mississippi
Elizabeth Smith
married:
Griffin Ross, Jr.
c. 1825
Mississippi


William J. Smith c. 1827
Mississippi


Nancy Smith
married:
George W. Berry
Clark Smith
1831
Copiah County, Mississippi
bef. 1870

Pinkey Smith c. 1838
Mississippi


Martha Smith
married:
Dan P. Hayden
10 Jun 1840
Mississippi
11 Feb 1874

Thomas Smith 1842
Mississippi


Salina Smith
married:
Jim S. Layton
15 Dec 1872
c. 1846
Mississippi


Johnson W. Smith 5 May 1847
Tallahatchie County, MS
10 Jun 1923
Restland
Roxton, Lamar, Texas

William had a son named William J. Occasional designations of Sr. and Jr. in various documents seem more to distinquish between father and son, rather that exact same-name appellations. I am uncertain that the elder William was actually named William J.

William J. had a son named William J. "Bill." This father and son are also sometimes referred to as Sr. and Jr.

The 1850 Census has William age 65 (20 years older than Elizabeth). Some researchers use a birth year of 1787.

Elizabeth Jenkin's birth date choices (based on Census "age") are 1803, 1805, or 1807 (20 younger than William).

Re the burial of William and Elizabeth: Irene Blanton Smith wrote in "Two of the Smith Boys," self-published in 1983, "Family members and 'oldtimers' of Grenada, Miss. think that William and Elizabeth were buried in the Ross Cemetery. Very few marked graves were found there and none of William and Elizabeth, however, several years ago, Irene and Wallace Smith [the author] had stones put down there for both of them, using the census for basis as to their year of birth." She put 1787-1857 and 1807-1872 on William's and Elizabeth's respective stones.
Pedigree Chart 2
Smiths
Willis Smith
Son
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