Bernie, when extracting 1900 census for your Thomas J. SMITH, it shows he "owned" his farm. I'm thinking you may be able to obtain land record -- when and how he acquired it -- and when it was granted to new owner from him or heirs. This may provide a good lead for information on him. Peggy

Peggy I had discussed this with Vera sometime in the past - when I did realize that Tom Smith owned land. Roger Harvell even was able to pinpoint it for me. I have never researched or ordered land records and really, would not know how to begin. I wondered how Nannie had come about losing the land or selling it? Doubt there was a sale though, as the family was very poor. I really think that Tom Smith spent time. My grandfather was born in September 1888 and his older sister; Dollie in 1886. I have NEVER found a marriage record for Tom Smith and Nannie Sinor and it just might be that they never married at all. Who knows? Fort Smith Criminal Records: Control Number NRFF-21-3W51-41999 Media Textual records Descr. Level File Unit Record Group 21 Series 3W51 File Unit 41999 Title Criminal Defendant Case File for Thomas J. Smith Dates 1888 Creating Org. United States. District Court. Western District of Arkansas. Fort Smith Division. Scope & Content Crime: Liquor Jacket Number: 497 Control Number NRFF-21-3W51-42000 Media Textual records Descr. Level File Unit Record Group 21 Series 3W51 File Unit 42000 Title Criminal Defendant Case File for Thomas J. Smith Dates 1890 Creating Org. United States. District Court. Western District of Arkansas. Fort Smith Division. Scope & Content Crime: Liquor Jacket Number: 497 Mountain Echo, February 13, 1891: Thos. Smith of Marion county, serving out in our county jail, a fine for selling liquor, was taken out by a guard to attend church last Sunday, at the close of the services succeeded in slipping away and making good his escape. Marshall Stockton followed him as far as Yellville but did not succeed in re-capturing him. Harrison Times. Mountain Echo Newspaper, April 1891: T. J. Smith of Barren Creek township, who was tried and convicted at Yellville at the last term of the circuit court and fined $200 for selling liquor without license in Marion county, in default of payment of which fine was placed in jail and afterward made his escape, stood Deputy Sheriff Brown, of Boone county, off one day last week, refusing to be arrested. Brown could not make him surrender without shooting him and his father-in-law, Jas. Sinor, both, and he did not want to do that. Smith swears he means to stay at home and will die before he will surrender to an officer. Baxter County Citizen. Note: Don't you just wonder what happened, Peggy? He was however back in Barren Creek in the 1900 census, that you referenced in your post tonight and revealing that he was a landowner. 13 June 1900 Baxter Co., Arkansas census, Barren Creek Township: SMITH, Thomas head W M Apr 1866 34 md/13 yrs MO TN AR farmer can read & write Owns free farm #114/114 Nancy wife W F Sept 1864 35 md/136/5 AR TN TN can read & write Dollie daughter W F May 1886 14 single AR MO AR Sherman son W M Sept 1888 12 single AR MO AR Monroe (?) son W M July 1889 11 single (marked out) Louis son W M June 1896 3 single Ind Terr MO AR Willie son W M June 1898 2 single Ind Terr MO AR Marvil son W M Feb 1899 1 single AR MO AR I did find this from Land Records and I am almost sure that he died in 1905 - would this mean that he was alive in August of that year, Peggy? Baxter Co., Arkansas Land Records SMITH THOMAS J 20 18N 13W 0 1905/08/05 SMITH THOMAS J 20 18N 13W 160 1905/08/05 SMITH THOMAS J 20 18N 13W 160 1905/08/05 By 1910, Nannie Sinor Smith is in Stone Co., with just a few of her children. Son; Lewis is living in a Fields home and enumerated there as "adopted son" ?, seven year old Everett is nowhere to be found and there is a child named Marvil in both 1900 and 1910. I do not have a clue as to who he is or what happened to him. I can not read the 1910 census image very well - but do not believe that Nannie Sinor Smith was a landowner. Do you know where Hixson Township in Stone Co. is, and in relation to Barren Creek, where the Smiths were in 1900, Peggy? 11 May 1910 Stone Co., Arkansas census, Hixson Township: SMITH, Nancy A. head F W 45 md/1 widow 8/7 AR AR TN #186/187 Willie son M W 18 single AR TN AR Marvil son M W 11 single AR TN AR Maud B. (P.?) daughter F W 8 single AR TN AR Jodie son M W 5 single AR TN AR I had another interesting tidbit sent to me just tonight regarding Everett Smith - my grandfather's brother. Brooks descendants (Everett married Lucy Brooks) tell me that Everett Smith spent time, also. He died in April of 1926. Apparently his daughter; Katherine Everetta Smith was born one day and he was killed the next day. I was told that his death was a farming accident and that they were living in or near Guion. He was only 23 years of age. Wonder what his stint in the state pen was for? These Smiths are something else, you know it? Bernie Moore-Knowles Phoenix, Arizona - Papa'aloa, Hawai'i "I have Indian blood in me. I have just enough White blood for you to question my honesty." ........Will Rogers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peggy Truesdell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:51 PM Subject: Re: [ARBAXTER] Thomas J. SMITH (Bernie) > Bernie, when extracting 1900 census for your Thomas J. SMITH, it shows he "owned" his farm. I'm thinking you may be able to obtain land record -- when and how he acquired it -- and when it was granted to new owner from him or heirs. This may provide a good lead for information on him. > > Peggy > > > ==== ARBAXTER Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett [email protected] > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >