----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherry W. Manuel" <swman@centurytel.net> To: <mswilkin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 7:05 AM Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] cemetery I haven't seen that one, but I feel reasonably sure at some point we would have left one there. Nan > Is the tree you are talking about the one I found in the archives in > Jackson Mississippi? > Thanks! > Sherry > > -----Original Message----- > From: mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nan > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 7:19 PM > To: mswilkin@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] cemetery > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sherry W. Manuel" <swman@centurytel.net> > To: <mswilkin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 4:58 PM > Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] cemetery > Sherry, You were just the kind of person I was hoping to catch up with. > The > only member in First Families on Zachariah to my knowledge was Winnie > Cowgill. I will have to Email Ralph to see if he had any supporting > data > for the death dates. I just wonder why, since at the base of the > tree, > Zachariah and Frances birth dates are given and their marriage date, but > no > death dates. The notation at the side of the base states that the tree > was > done as a wedding gift for Sinai upon her marriage to Erastus Lum. It > says > 1820, but my record shows they married Jan 1821. It seems whoever made > the > tree would have included the death dates. Perhaps the tree is > incomplete. > > I do have some of the gift deed records but certainly not all you list. > I > am very appreciative of that info. which child of Z and F do you > descend > from? > Nan > >> Hi Nan >> Sorry to be so late jumping in here but I just got home. >> I am always excited to see Zachariah Smith family information show up. >> According to the book THE ORDER OF THE FIRST FAMILIES OF MISSISSIPPI >> 1699-1817. ed. Pg. 72. Zachariah Smith died in 1812 and the records I >> have abstracted from the courthouse in Woodville seem to bear that > out. >> The Conveyance records show a group of bequests to his grand children >> and great grand children that began to be recorded in starting the 4 >> November 1812. They had been written at various dates in the preceding >> months of that year with the last being done the 1 November 1812. I >> expect he died shortly after that date. >> Conveyance records >> Book A pg. 295. Recorded 4 November 1812. Zacariah Smith to Francis > Ann >> Lovelace his grand daughter a Negro girl Phebe. Done 29 Aug. 1812. >> Signed Zachariah Smith. Witnessed Jno Wall, W. Hunter. >> Book A pg. 296. Recorded 4 November 1812. Zachariah Smith to Nancy D. >> Foster a Negro girl Sary with yellowish complexion, 13 years old. Done > 9 >> October 1812. Signed Zachariah Smith. Witnesses Jno Wall, W. H. > Hunter. >> Book A. pg. 300. recorded 20 November 1812. Zachariah Smith to >> granddaughter Barsheba Hetty Foster, a Negro girl Louisa. Done 28 Aug. >> 1812. Signed Zachariah Smith. Witnesses Randolph Foster and Moses A >> Foster. >> Recorded 20 November 1812. Zachariah Smith to Polly Eleanor Foster, > his >> granddaughter, a Negro girl Nancy. Done 28 Aug. 1812. Signed Zachariah >> Smith. Witnesses Randolph Foster and Moses Foster. >> Book A, pg. 301. recorded 20 November 1812 Zachariah Smith to his >> grandson Thomas Kelsey 2 plow horses with all utensils for husbandry, >> Smith and Working tools, all household and kitchen furniture, clock > and >> yoke of oxen, a sorrell horse, 1/4 of present crop, all stock of hogs, >> and all whiskey in storage. Done 28 August 1812. signed Zachariah > Smith. >> Witness Randolph Foster. >> Book A, pg. 307. recorded 5 Jan. 1813 Zachariah Smith to Adolphus >> Fredrick Smith in Parish of Attakapas for $500 land on Thompsons Creek >> in New Felicianna. Spanish Grant to Felix Barnard. When granted > bounded >> on north by Philip Alston, on south by Dr. Joga Raouel, bought from >> Edward Gibbens by Zachariah Smith. 236 1/2 arpents. Done 28 July 1812. >> Signed Zachariah Smith. Witnesses: John Wall and Peter Smith. >> Book A, pg. 309. recorded 5 Jan. 1813. Zachariah Smith to Eliza Ann >> Wilkinson his great grand daughter 4 cows and a chestnut sorrell mare. >> Done 1 Nov. 1812. signed Zachariah Smith. Witnesses: John Wall, Peter >> Smith. >> Book A, pg. 310. recorded 5 Jan. 1813. Zachariah Smith to William > Henry >> Smith his grandson a Negro boy Jerry. Done 28 July 1812. Signed >> Zachariah Smith (his mark this time, the rest have been signatures). >> Witnesses: John Wall and Peter Smith. >> His son Peter Smith is made administrator of his estate in January of >> 1813 as he died intestate. He had already taken care of his bequests > by >> deed in the preceding months so there was only a small amount of last >> details for Peter to settle. >> INVENTORY AND ACCOUNTS BOOKS (These are housed in the basement) >> Vol. 1, pg. 262. Jan. 1813. Peter Smith made administrator of > Zachariah >> Smith Sen. estate as he died intestate. >> Vol. 2 pg. 376. July 1821. Peter Smith, administrator of Zacheriah > Smith >> Sen. dec. states he has only $186 belonging to the estate and bills >> amounting to $193. >> Vol. 3 pg. 113. >> Debts of Zachariah Smith estate as of 13 Feb. 1813. >> North Evans $85.91, $5.50,$51.41 >> Arron Kirkland $18 >> E.H. Marselis $20.24 >> Jas. Wilson $4.86 >> John Threkeld $28.00 >> total $193.70 >> Property of Estate available to Peter Smith Administrator. >> 1 horse $76 >> Neat processed 4 bales of cotton $189.22 >> cotton $20.46 >> Property brought $186.28 >> pg. 261. Bond of Peter Smith as administrator with Zachariah Smith and >> Thomas Lovelace as securities. The dates and information in not filled >> in on the bond. But it is obviously the bond for Peter to be >> administrator of his fathers estate. >> (This appears to be the final accounting of Zachariahs estate.) >> I believe Francis Prestwood Smith had already died in 1809, though > First >> Families says she died 1820-24. In the first place if she had still > been >> alive at the time of Zachariah's death (1812) she would have been >> provided for in his estate or the deeds prior to his death. She was > not. >> The last record on which she signed was Conveyance Book A, pg. 90. >> recorded 10 October 1808. Made 2 March 1808. Zachariah Smith Sr. and >> Francis his wife to John Foster and Mary his wife and Claiborne and >> William Zachariah Foster, their sons for $3,500 a tract of land on >> Blumart Creek 500 acres. Adjacent Zachariah Smith Jr. on north, David >> Ogden on south, William Ogden on east. signed Zachariah Smith Sr. and >> Frances Smith. Wit. Thomas Foster and William Hunter. >> Book A, pg. 135. Recorded 4 January 1810 made 16 September 1809 >> Zachariah Smith Sr. and Frances his wife to Thomas Kelsey for $1000 a >> tract of land on Buffalo Creek 174 acres. A Spanish grant of 1788. >> Signed Zachariah Smith. Frances did not sign. Wit. Joshua Buchammer >> Bateman, John Foster. >> Though the last record says Zachariah and wife and was actually done >> September 1809 no signature is shown on the record at the courthouse. >> While most of the of the other property he deeded to his grandchildren >> were not real estate and did not require her signature the property in >> Feliciana Parish that he deeded to his grandson Adolphus Fredrick > Smith >> would probably have carried her signature had she been living. >> As to where they are buried I expect both are buried on the family >> plantation as was the custom of the time. >> So unless someone in the family can give me proof that she went to > live >> with one of the family (I love to get those kinds of stories from >> families as they are the only ones that can give us that kind of >> information) until her death because she needed special care I will >> leave their dates of death at 1812 for him and 1809 for her. >> Thanks! >> Sherry >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nan >> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:11 PM >> To: mswilkin@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [MSWILKIN] cemetery >> >> While we are on cemeteries, does anyone know where John Foster is >> buried. He died apparently Jan 26, 1837, at the age of 80 according > to >> a copied notation from the Woodville Republican, Feb. 18, 1837. He > had >> returned from Fort Bend Co.,Texas to Woodville where he lived out > his >> remaining years with his daughter Hettie B. (Foster) Mayes, and >> son-in-law Major Francis S. Mayes. >> >> We would also like to find the burial site of Frances Prestwood Smith >> and Zachariah Smith. they were born 1734 and 1741 respectively, but > we >> do not have death dates. They moved from Adams Co. to Wilkinson Co. > in >> the late 1780 to early 1790's with most of his 12 living children. > the >> latter married into the Hunter, Kimbrel, Lovelace, Phipps, Thompson, >> Goodby and Bonner families as well as 3 daughters marrying Fosters. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
It must be. It was wonderful but to big to copy on the archives printer so I did a quick transcription. Thanks! Sherry -----Original Message----- From: mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nan Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:41 AM To: mswilkin@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] cemetery ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherry W. Manuel" <swman@centurytel.net> To: <mswilkin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 7:05 AM Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] cemetery I haven't seen that one, but I feel reasonably sure at some point we would have left one there. Nan > Is the tree you are talking about the one I found in the archives in > Jackson Mississippi? > Thanks! > Sherry > > -----Original Message----- > From: mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nan > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 7:19 PM > To: mswilkin@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] cemetery > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sherry W. Manuel" <swman@centurytel.net> > To: <mswilkin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 4:58 PM > Subject: Re: [MSWILKIN] cemetery > Sherry, You were just the kind of person I was hoping to catch up with. > The > only member in First Families on Zachariah to my knowledge was Winnie > Cowgill. I will have to Email Ralph to see if he had any supporting > data > for the death dates. I just wonder why, since at the base of the > tree, > Zachariah and Frances birth dates are given and their marriage date, but > no > death dates. The notation at the side of the base states that the tree > was > done as a wedding gift for Sinai upon her marriage to Erastus Lum. It > says > 1820, but my record shows they married Jan 1821. It seems whoever made > the > tree would have included the death dates. Perhaps the tree is > incomplete. > > I do have some of the gift deed records but certainly not all you list. > I > am very appreciative of that info. which child of Z and F do you > descend > from? > Nan > >> Hi Nan >> Sorry to be so late jumping in here but I just got home. >> I am always excited to see Zachariah Smith family information show up. >> According to the book THE ORDER OF THE FIRST FAMILIES OF MISSISSIPPI >> 1699-1817. ed. Pg. 72. Zachariah Smith died in 1812 and the records I >> have abstracted from the courthouse in Woodville seem to bear that > out. >> The Conveyance records show a group of bequests to his grand children >> and great grand children that began to be recorded in starting the 4 >> November 1812. They had been written at various dates in the preceding >> months of that year with the last being done the 1 November 1812. I >> expect he died shortly after that date. >> Conveyance records >> Book A pg. 295. Recorded 4 November 1812. Zacariah Smith to Francis > Ann >> Lovelace his grand daughter a Negro girl Phebe. Done 29 Aug. 1812. >> Signed Zachariah Smith. Witnessed Jno Wall, W. Hunter. >> Book A pg. 296. Recorded 4 November 1812. Zachariah Smith to Nancy D. >> Foster a Negro girl Sary with yellowish complexion, 13 years old. Done > 9 >> October 1812. Signed Zachariah Smith. Witnesses Jno Wall, W. H. > Hunter. >> Book A. pg. 300. recorded 20 November 1812. Zachariah Smith to >> granddaughter Barsheba Hetty Foster, a Negro girl Louisa. Done 28 Aug. >> 1812. Signed Zachariah Smith. Witnesses Randolph Foster and Moses A >> Foster. >> Recorded 20 November 1812. Zachariah Smith to Polly Eleanor Foster, > his >> granddaughter, a Negro girl Nancy. Done 28 Aug. 1812. Signed Zachariah >> Smith. Witnesses Randolph Foster and Moses Foster. >> Book A, pg. 301. recorded 20 November 1812 Zachariah Smith to his >> grandson Thomas Kelsey 2 plow horses with all utensils for husbandry, >> Smith and Working tools, all household and kitchen furniture, clock > and >> yoke of oxen, a sorrell horse, 1/4 of present crop, all stock of hogs, >> and all whiskey in storage. Done 28 August 1812. signed Zachariah > Smith. >> Witness Randolph Foster. >> Book A, pg. 307. recorded 5 Jan. 1813 Zachariah Smith to Adolphus >> Fredrick Smith in Parish of Attakapas for $500 land on Thompsons Creek >> in New Felicianna. Spanish Grant to Felix Barnard. When granted > bounded >> on north by Philip Alston, on south by Dr. Joga Raouel, bought from >> Edward Gibbens by Zachariah Smith. 236 1/2 arpents. Done 28 July 1812. >> Signed Zachariah Smith. Witnesses: John Wall and Peter Smith. >> Book A, pg. 309. recorded 5 Jan. 1813. Zachariah Smith to Eliza Ann >> Wilkinson his great grand daughter 4 cows and a chestnut sorrell mare. >> Done 1 Nov. 1812. signed Zachariah Smith. Witnesses: John Wall, Peter >> Smith. >> Book A, pg. 310. recorded 5 Jan. 1813. Zachariah Smith to William > Henry >> Smith his grandson a Negro boy Jerry. Done 28 July 1812. Signed >> Zachariah Smith (his mark this time, the rest have been signatures). >> Witnesses: John Wall and Peter Smith. >> His son Peter Smith is made administrator of his estate in January of >> 1813 as he died intestate. He had already taken care of his bequests > by >> deed in the preceding months so there was only a small amount of last >> details for Peter to settle. >> INVENTORY AND ACCOUNTS BOOKS (These are housed in the basement) >> Vol. 1, pg. 262. Jan. 1813. Peter Smith made administrator of > Zachariah >> Smith Sen. estate as he died intestate. >> Vol. 2 pg. 376. July 1821. Peter Smith, administrator of Zacheriah > Smith >> Sen. dec. states he has only $186 belonging to the estate and bills >> amounting to $193. >> Vol. 3 pg. 113. >> Debts of Zachariah Smith estate as of 13 Feb. 1813. >> North Evans $85.91, $5.50,$51.41 >> Arron Kirkland $18 >> E.H. Marselis $20.24 >> Jas. Wilson $4.86 >> John Threkeld $28.00 >> total $193.70 >> Property of Estate available to Peter Smith Administrator. >> 1 horse $76 >> Neat processed 4 bales of cotton $189.22 >> cotton $20.46 >> Property brought $186.28 >> pg. 261. Bond of Peter Smith as administrator with Zachariah Smith and >> Thomas Lovelace as securities. The dates and information in not filled >> in on the bond. But it is obviously the bond for Peter to be >> administrator of his fathers estate. >> (This appears to be the final accounting of Zachariahs estate.) >> I believe Francis Prestwood Smith had already died in 1809, though > First >> Families says she died 1820-24. In the first place if she had still > been >> alive at the time of Zachariah's death (1812) she would have been >> provided for in his estate or the deeds prior to his death. She was > not. >> The last record on which she signed was Conveyance Book A, pg. 90. >> recorded 10 October 1808. Made 2 March 1808. Zachariah Smith Sr. and >> Francis his wife to John Foster and Mary his wife and Claiborne and >> William Zachariah Foster, their sons for $3,500 a tract of land on >> Blumart Creek 500 acres. Adjacent Zachariah Smith Jr. on north, David >> Ogden on south, William Ogden on east. signed Zachariah Smith Sr. and >> Frances Smith. Wit. Thomas Foster and William Hunter. >> Book A, pg. 135. Recorded 4 January 1810 made 16 September 1809 >> Zachariah Smith Sr. and Frances his wife to Thomas Kelsey for $1000 a >> tract of land on Buffalo Creek 174 acres. A Spanish grant of 1788. >> Signed Zachariah Smith. Frances did not sign. Wit. Joshua Buchammer >> Bateman, John Foster. >> Though the last record says Zachariah and wife and was actually done >> September 1809 no signature is shown on the record at the courthouse. >> While most of the of the other property he deeded to his grandchildren >> were not real estate and did not require her signature the property in >> Feliciana Parish that he deeded to his grandson Adolphus Fredrick > Smith >> would probably have carried her signature had she been living. >> As to where they are buried I expect both are buried on the family >> plantation as was the custom of the time. >> So unless someone in the family can give me proof that she went to > live >> with one of the family (I love to get those kinds of stories from >> families as they are the only ones that can give us that kind of >> information) until her death because she needed special care I will >> leave their dates of death at 1812 for him and 1809 for her. >> Thanks! >> Sherry >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:mswilkin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nan >> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:11 PM >> To: mswilkin@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [MSWILKIN] cemetery >> >> While we are on cemeteries, does anyone know where John Foster is >> buried. He died apparently Jan 26, 1837, at the age of 80 according > to >> a copied notation from the Woodville Republican, Feb. 18, 1837. He > had >> returned from Fort Bend Co.,Texas to Woodville where he lived out > his >> remaining years with his daughter Hettie B. (Foster) Mayes, and >> son-in-law Major Francis S. Mayes. >> >> We would also like to find the burial site of Frances Prestwood Smith >> and Zachariah Smith. they were born 1734 and 1741 respectively, but > we >> do not have death dates. They moved from Adams Co. to Wilkinson Co. > in >> the late 1780 to early 1790's with most of his 12 living children. > the >> latter married into the Hunter, Kimbrel, Lovelace, Phipps, Thompson, >> Goodby and Bonner families as well as 3 daughters marrying Fosters. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message