> >>Hi- >> This is my first post to the list, looking for cousins! This is my >>Mom's Dad's side, My Mom's Mom's side (Payne's, McDaniel's Ward's, >>Kicrease, Smith and >Lamb's) >>will be my next post. >>Brenda. >>------ >> >>Name: Seth L. (Jack) SMITH (L. is it for Leathan?) >> >>ALIA: "Jack"Smith >> >>Birth: 1828 MS >> >>Death: 1910 TX >> >>Marriage 1 Matilda NOLEN b: 1831/1840 in North Carolina (d/o Leah and >>Lenuel Nolen, Matilda's siblings were Mary b: 1820,Wiliam b: 1825, >>Nancy b: 1827 and John b: 15 MAY 1835 all NC)Matilda is buried in >Finch >>cemetery in Finch, Greene Co.,AR >> >>Children >> >>1.Mary J. SMITH >> >>2.Sarah A. SMITH (Watkins/Wadkins?) >> >>3.Frances Leora (Frank) SMITH (Frankie McCraw/McGraw? in TX in 1910) >> >>4.Melinda Susan (Lindy) SMITH b:1859-1934 (m:John Ashberry HICKMAN >>1858-1918). Lov Anna HICKMAN was b in Paragould,Greene Co.Feb 3 1896 >and >>m.James Butler MARSHALL b:Aug 27,1908.-died on Sep 10.1912 >> >>5.Laura Delila SMITH (Andrews?) >> >>6.John Franklin (Bud) SMITH b: 3 December 1866 m:Flora Alice Payne >b:1874 AR >> >>7.Nancy A. (Dumpy) SMITH (Hill?) >> >>Child #6 Bud Smith is my grandfather, him and his wife /Flora are >also >>buried in the Finch cemetery along with about 30 other Smiths. >>Their Children were;(12 not in order) >>1. Ade Hilbert Smith "Hill" b:1894, d:Sept 17 1981, m: Adella Taylor >22 >>July 1899-27 Nov. 1960; sired John Willard 19 July 1917, >>Frankie, Alberta, Violet, Renie, Albertina, George, Tommy, Tomasine, >>Herbert, Joe, Shirley, Sue, Darsmack. >>2. Earl Leathan Smith b: 1914 married his one love Mabel Sullivan at >18. >>They were blessed with several children and seemed to have a happy >marriage >>until one tragic day. The day started with the usual chores, Earl's >oldest >>child, Vera, was cleaning the bedroom of her mother and father. The >night >>before >>Earl had thought he heard a prowler near the house and had placed a >loaded >>shotgun in the bedroom. Vera picked up the gun, it went off. As fate >would >>have it, her father walked in the path of the discharging gun. He >died on >>the way to the hospital. He lived long enough to tell his daughter he >did >>not >>blame her and to pray for him. >>2. Woodrow Wilson Smith b: 1917 remained at home with his parents >until >>WWII began. He was drafted into the army at the approximate age of >23. >>He was about 7 feet tall. After serving 4 years he returned home and >>married Ruby. They had 3 children all boys. Ruby died of cancer when >the >>youngest baby was about 5 months old. Woodrow's sister, May, helped >him >>raise the boys, Gary, Jamie, and Dale. >>3. Dollie Mae Smith b:1902/3, on her parents 380 acre farm in Finch. >She >>attended Finch elementary school and was taught by her Uncle Henry >>Woods. >>Women were not allowed to vote or attend university when Dollie was >born, >>but that same year Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and >>Political Union. In 1920 when women got the vote Dollie lied about >her age >>so she could vote in the first election. >>Dollie's father was a Sheriff in Greene Co.,AR and her brother was a >>Deputy, and her Uncle Hub Payne was a justice of the peace.Dollie's >maternal >>grandfather, James C. "Jim" Payne, built a cotton gin in Greene Co. >it was >>powered by oxen at first and then later converted to steam. >>Dollie m: Paul H. Gaines in Benton,MO 26 May 1923. They had a stormy >>marriage during the hardest of times. They made bathtub gin in St. >>Louis,Mo and sold it to the railroad men Paul worked with during the >>roaring 20s and prohibition. Then the Great Depression. Dollie was >carrying >>her >>3rd child when the stock market crashed.Dollie and Paul had 6 >children; >>Lowell Wesley, Hechell Paul, Dollie Pauline, Bobby Edward, Barney >Harold, >>Brenda Darlene. Dollie lived 85 years and her life span stretched >from the >>horse and buggy days to men on the moon.She was a great cook, a >creative >>seamstress, and a fanatic house keeper, and also worked outside the >>home.She died in San Jose California. >>4. Jake Sullivan Smith, b"14 Nov. 1890 Greene Co.,AR. in 1914 he m: >>Marjorie Clarice Gaines b:6 August 1894 Carmi,IL d:18 July 1970. Jake >>married again after Margie died in OK, his 2nd wife retired to a rest >home. >>Jake was tall and straight, smoked a pipe, drank a little red wine, >and >>liked to play dominoes with the kids. He was almost 100 when he died >in >>Texas. >>Him and Margie raised;Chauncy Sullivan, Darrell Franklin, Talmage >Hilliard, >>Gordon Alvin, Mildred Irene, Melba lavern, Mary Francine, Jake >sullivan, >>Charles Doyle, and Maxine. >>5. John L. Smith, b:1895, occupation undertaker, married Nanny Sacks >and >>had 2 children. >>6. App Sheridan Smith, b: 1899 d: 1964 St. Louis, MO. He married >Annie >>Brus, a beautiful German girl, they had 2 children, Virginia and Bill >James. >>Annie ran away with another man, but came back only to die of typhoid >>fever. Bill James and Virginia went to live with their Smith >grandparents. >>Bill >>James died of a ruptured appendix at age 15, and Virginia was killed >by a >>rapist, leaving 3 children. App died of some infection later that >year. >>7. Leona Smith b: 1901, m: Price Wax and moved to Arizone. They had 8 >>children; Leland, Elderae, Hubert, Otis, Eddy, Elinore, Delbert, and >>Wilburn. >>8. Midola Smith b: 1904 married Walter Strope and bore 5 children >Mack, >>Junior, Louise, Jerry and Donald. >>9. Sylvia May Smith (nicknamed Princess), b: 1907 m: Arthur Potkins, >2nd: >>James Henley. She had no children but she helped her youngest brother >>raise his. She died in 1986. >>10. Lowell Alonzo "Jack" Smith , a retired Paragould, Ar farmer born >15 >>January 1910. Jack got the name Lowell Alonzo from some neighbors, >Marilee >>and Mandy Panky, he got his nickname from his grandfather who was on >his >>way to Texas in 1910, when he stopped by to see the baby and >said,"You >>should have called him Jack". Jack married Mildred Tate and had Lola >May, >>Betty Jean (who married Herbert s/o Richard and Nell Gaines >Pigue-they >>had 1 son Alvin L. "Al" Pigue shanged to Caine), Sylvia, L.D., M.J., >>Maryann and Edward (twins). >>11.Della Nete Smith, M; 1st Jay Payne, 2nd, Mike McKenzie, 3rd Harold >Erbar. >>12. Anner Smith died as an infant. >> >>Brenda Darlene Gaines- Monroe >>Swamp Creek Garden -Oregon >> >>http://www.pioneer.net/~brendad/ >> >>Mom's side - Smith, Payne, Ward, Rowland, Killcreece, McDaniel, Lamb >>Dad's side - Gaines, Malcome, Holderby, Lewis, Harvey. Felix, Mays >> >> > Brenda Darlene Gaines- Monroe Swamp Creek Garden -Oregon http://www.pioneer.net/~brendad/ Mom's side - Smith, Payne, Ward, Rowland, Killcreece, McDaniel, Lamb Dad's side - Gaines, Malcome, Holderby, Lewis, Harvey. Felix, Mays