

Just a short
introduction and to say a very big
to for allowing me the opportunity add his family ties to my
Warren County, Illinois, web site. Martin lives about 60 miles west of
Austin Texas, in the small town of Kingsland, on a beautiful lake, L. B. J.
This will be a little bit of a challenge for me as he has sent me so many
pages. So, check back frequently for an update... will let you know
when it's the end; which in my line there is never and end.
Don't just love it?????
You can reach Marvin by clicking on the graphic...
Don't
forget to send me your


*I need
to
apologize to
Marvin for
making his
first
name Martin instead of
Marvin.
So, that's what I'm
doing here is big bold letters. I'm so
Marvin and hope you can forgive
me... ..
Hello my name is Marvin Smith,
and I'm here to tell you about my Smith family and their connections to
Warren County, IL. Hopefully will be able to help some people out and
to come in contact with people who can add to my family file. Foxie is
kind enough to do this for me and with her help and the help of others who
come in to view this site we can make it one big happy family....
William B. Smith 1793-1856, is my 4th
great grandfather & is buried in the northeast corner of the Lenox union
cemetery a broken stone, by his son Andrew Jackson smith.
There is still a lot of family members
living there and surrounding communities, with your help, could benefit
froma family history book
I want to send to you, to benefit the
community. There was a very nice article about him and his family in the
Review Atlas, December 1959 and his untimely death
to save his grandson.
Note from
Foxie:
Try and get it online very soon...
Descendants of John
Smith
Generation
No. 1
1. JOHN2
SMITH (JOHN1)
was born 1800 in KY., and died October 28, 1839 in Warren County, Illinois.
He married URSULA HENDRICK
1822 in warren County, Ky., daughter of JAMES
HENDRICK and KESIAH
GARDNER.
Children of JOHN
SMITH and URSULA
HENDRICK are:
i.
ELIZABETH3
SMITH,
b. 1820.
ii. DAVID
SMITH,
b. 1824.
2.
iii. KEZIAH
JANE
SMITH,
b. March 11, 1827;
d. March 08, 1895, Berwick Twp., Warren County, Illinois.
iv. NANCY
SMITH.
v. BRYSON
B.
SMITH,
b. 1837.
vi. WILLIAM
H.
SMITH.
3.
vii. JAMES
A. J.
SMITH.
viii. JOHN
T.
SMITH.
Generation No. 2
2. KEZIAH
JANE3 SMITH
(JOHN2, JOHN1)
was born March 11, 1827, and died March 08, 1895 in Berwick Twp. Warren
County, Illinois. She married ORVILLE
RAY February 01, 1844 in Warren
County, Illinois Berwick Twp., son of HICKERSON
REA and SARAH
KELLEY
Children of KEZIAH
SMITH and ORVILLE
RAY are:
i. JOHN
H.4
RAY,
b. Aft. 1844.
ii. ARCHIBALD
M.
RAY,
b. 1845, Warren County, Illinois; d. January 01, 1874, Kansas;
m. MARY
ELIZABETH
WELCH,
Warren County, Illinois.
4.
iii. ELIZA
RAY,
b. 1847, Warren County, Illinois.
iv. IRA
T. RAY
RAY,
b. 1849, Warren County, Illinois; d. Gage County, Nebraska;
m. MILLIE
AYERS.
v. HARVEY
LUSTER
RAY,
b. October 26, 1852, Warren County, Illinois Berwick, Illinois; d. March
08, 1912, Warren County, Illinois Berwick, Illinois; m. MALINDA
JANE
CARR,
February 13, 1879, Warren County, Illinois.
vi. VICTORIA
RAY,
b. 1856, Warren County, Illinois; m. JOSHUA
ROSSELL,
December 15, 1874, Warren County, Illinois.
vii. SILAS
ORVILLE
RAY,
b. June 11, 1864, Warren County, Illinois Berwick, Illinois; d. December
03, 1938, Warren County, Illinois; m. ELLA
J.
MORRIS,
January 29, 1891, Warren County, Illinois.
3. JAMES
A.J.3
SMITH (JOHN2,
JOHN1). He married ZELDA
ANN RAY
January 09, 1949 in Warren County, Illinois, daughter of STEPHEN
REA and CYNTHIA
COWLES
Child of JAMES
SMITH and ZELDA
RAY is:
i.
THOMAS
M.4
SMITH.
Generation
No. 3
4. ELIZA4
RAY (KEZIAH
JANE3 SMITH,
JOHN2, JOHN1)
was born 1847 in Warren County, Illinois. She married JOHN
WESLEY SMITH
October 26, 1873 in Warren County, Illinois.
Children of ELIZA
RAY and JOHN
SMITH are:
i.
NORA5
SMITH.
ii. HENRY
SMITH.
iii. ARTHUR
SMITH.
iv. LENA
SMITH.
Wm. B. Smith and his wife Christina Sites filed a
long separation papers, that they could not get along, and have decided to live apart the
rest of their lives, this was august 1843, it was with Abraham Lincoln,
the Uncle to president Lincoln to see that Christina was comfortable for
the rest of her life.
Wm. B. Smith came to Warren County, Illinois with
his house maid and daughter, they were married in Monmouth in 1850, after
he died, his son, David, had papers drawn up and she relinquished all
rights to his estate, her name was Mary Olinger and for $3, 500 she backed
out of his estate. I have no clue where Mary is buried, his estate
was valued at $15,000 in 1856. Most of the fine farm lands went to the
descendants of David's son Charles Jefferson Smith.
Foxie's
Note:
"This
next page will take a bit to download. There is an awful lot of
information on it. Biggest one yet. Have gotten through now to
William B. Smith's 3 sons are online... will make a Smith link page later.
Right now you have to follow from page to page.... "
Thanks! Happy Gene Hunting.
Echoes From the Past.....
Descendants
of William Barnum Smith
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