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William Smith

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Parents

Father	Date of Birth	Mother	Date of Birth

Partners

Partner	Date of Birth	Children
		Andrew Jackson Smith

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place	Description
Birth	Bet 1790 and 1800
Marriage
Death	Abt 1855

Notes


The following information is from "Smith Family Health Problems" by Melbourne Smith William Smith was one of the group of settlers who came Lincoln County, North Carolina in 1820, using the Daniel Boone route along the Cumberland River in Tennessee, and through western Kentucky, and across the Mississippi, to Southeast Missouri. This fact is well established. In the same group of settlers were members of these families: Bass, Kinder, Rhodes, Sitze, Bollinger, and Whitener. Some of the Berry's came into Bollinger County about this time, but I am sure they were from Georgia. Most of these family names will still be found in Bollinger and Madison counties, and all of them are in existence today in Lincoln and adjacent North Carolina counties. William Smith was one of the original settlers, and the Smith, and Kinder families were staunch believers in Negro slavery. They based their belief on the Bible, which, of course, in the story of Noah and his sons, states the matter very clearly. When the State of Kansas was about to be admitted to the union there was a terrific debate in Congress and it was country-wide, too, over the admission of Kansas as a slave or free state. Most of the inhabitants of northern Missouri, especially of the northwest section adjacent to Kansas, were slavery people, and about 1855 a local war broke out between the Kansas Jayhawkers and the slavery supporters in Missouri. It was during this border fighting that the James brothers, (Jesse and Frank) who were southern sympathizers, became experts in guerrila fighting, which they afterwards developed into outright banditry. The family tradition is that William Smith at the time of the border fighting was 85 years old, but that he was so opposed to Kansas being a free State that he shouldered his rifle and went off to fight with the other Missourians. It is pretty well authenticated that he was killed in a skirmish with Jayhawkers in the vicinity of Leavenworth, Kansas, (Then Fort Leavenworth.) The age of 85 is probably greatly exaggerated. He was possibly 25 or 30 when he came to Missouri in 1820, so that in 1855, when the Kansas border war developed, he should have been no more than 45 or 40. He had a brother Peter Smith, who was so exercised over the slavery issue that he went to Texas, and became known as a very tough bandit. Grandmother (Kinder) Smith maintained that this was correct, but what eventually happened to him, she did not know, I have wandered into some family history, but it is worth while background, *********************************************************************

The following information is from "Smith Family Health Problems" by Melbourne Smith

William Smith was one of the group of settlers who came Lincoln County, North Carolina in 1820, using the Daniel Boone route along the Cumberland River in Tennessee, and through western Kentucky, and across the Mississippi, to Southeast Missouri. This fact is well established. In the same group of settlers were members of these families: Bass, Kinder, Rhodes, Sitze, Bollinger, and Whitener. Some of the Berry's came into Bollinger County about this time, but I am sure they were from Georgia.

Most of these family names will still be found in Bollinger and Madison counties, and all of them are in existence today in Lincoln and adjacent North Carolina counties.

William Smith was one of the original settlers, and the Smith, and Kinder families were staunch believers in Negro slavery. They based their belief on the Bible, which, of course, in the story of Noah and his sons, states the matter very clearly.

When the State of Kansas was about to be admitted to the union there was a terrific debate in Congress and it was country-wide, too, over the admission of Kansas as a slave or free state. Most of the inhabitants of northern Missouri, especially of the northwest section adjacent to Kansas, were slavery people, and about 1855 a local war broke out between the Kansas Jayhawkers and the slavery supporters in Missouri. It was during this border fighting that the James brothers, (Jesse and Frank) who were southern sympathizers, became experts in guerrila fighting, which they afterwards developed into outright banditry. The family tradition is that William Smith at the time of the border fighting was 85 years old, but that he was so opposed to Kansas being a free State that he shouldered his rifle and went off to fight with the other Missourians. It is pretty well authenticated that he was killed in a skirmish with Jayhawkers in the vicinity of Leavenworth, Kansas, (Then Fort Leavenworth.) The age of 85 is probably greatly exaggerated. He was possibly 25 or 30 when he came to Missouri in 1820, so that in 1855, when the Kansas border war developed, he should have been no more than 45 or 40. He had a brother Peter Smith, who was so exercised over the slavery issue that he went to Texas, and became known as a very tough bandit. Grandmother (Kinder) Smith maintained that this was correct, but what eventually happened to him, she did not know, I have wandered into some family history, but it is worth while background,
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Sources

Description	Page	Quality	Information	Evidence
McCarty-Smith GEDCOM file		Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
Smith Family Health Problems		Don't know	Don't know	Don't know

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