Willie, Isaac Denton preached at Clear Fork just south of Albany. The church is very active to this day. Riley and and Smith are buried in that grave, but I do not know that Richardson is there. The grave has a shared tombstone of modern manufacture. You were very close to the site at Chanute Church. The graves are in the back of an old store. I will get you that book. Gary > From: Willie R Beaty <wbeaty@twlakes.net> > Reply-To: TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:09:25 -0600 > To: TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE-L] Champ Ferguson & Smiths > Resent-From: TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:09:59 -0700 > > Gary, > > I should clarify the below message. Jesse Bowen Smith is a brother to Isaac > Denton Smith. > > Willie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Willie R Beaty" <wbeaty@twlakes.net> > To: <TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 4:27 PM > Subject: [TNFENTRE-L] Champ Ferguson & Smiths > > >> Gary, >> >> Eliza Smith, who was Champ Ferguson's first wife, was the daughter of >> Jesse Bowen Smith, and a brother to Isaac Denton Smith. I.D. and Zerelda >> Ann Smith (cousin) had daughter named Millie Ann, who married Thomas Riley >> III. Millie had a brother named John M. Smith, and it was John Smith and >> Thomas Riley III, along with Hiram Richardson, who were killed at the >> head of Holbert Creek in January of 1864 by Tinker Dave Beaty's men. A.B. >> Wright, p.48, has this information: >> >> "In January of this year (1864), one-half mile from my home, in a battle >> between some of Beatty's and Ferguson's men, Hiram Richardson, John Smith, >> and Thomas Riley, Confederates, were killed. They were young men from >> families of my neighbors. Young Riley was taken prisoner and brutally >> murdered, while beggin of his captors the privilege of seeing his young >> wife, who was only one-half mile away, before they killed him. This was >> denied him. The young wife died soon afterwards of a broken heart." >> >> Family tradition says that Thomas Riley and John Smith were buried in a >> common grave in the Smith-Koger Cemetery near Chanute. Lizzie Russell had >> a stone erected in the 70's or 80's with that information written on it. >> >> I believe, however, that Tim Huddleston's book says that all three of the >> dead soldiers were buried in the same grave. I'll check that (and his >> source) when you bring me the book. Seems that it was Bertha Zachary, but >> I'm not sure. >> >> My great-aunt Mae Clark, who was granddaughter of Thomas and Millie Ann >> Smith Riley, remembered the "two-in-a-common-grave" story when I talked >> with her in 2001 about a year before she died at age 105 in Monticello KY. >> But she couldn't remember which side they were on in the army. >> >> I don't know who Elzy Smith was, but may have been related to these >> Smiths. I don't have his name in my data base. >> >> Yes, I believe that Isaac Denton Smith, and Isaac Denton Koger, were both >> named after the preacher Isaac Denton. Denton was pastor of the church >> where some of the Smiths were members over in Clinton County, but I don't >> remember now the name of it. >> >> Willie >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Gary Norris" <gnorris@kih.net> >> To: <TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 10:33 PM >> Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE-L] Fentress County Smith Y-DNA Project >> >> >>> Champ Ferguson's first wife was a Smith. He was kin by marriage to the >>> Lt. >>> Elzy Smith he later killed after the battle at Saltville, Virginia. Was >>> Thomas Riley's wife kin to those Smiths? They were not separated by too >>> much distance as the crow flies. >>> >>> Preacher Isaac Denton was head of the Clear Fork Church just south of >>> Albany. Again, there may be a connection since that church is not too >>> far >>> from where Champ lived. Perhaps Isaac Denton Smith was named for the >>> preacher and maybe there is a connection to Champ's first wife. >>> >>> Gary D. Norris >>> >>>> From: Willie R Beaty <wbeaty@twlakes.net> >>>> Reply-To: TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com >>>> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:51:21 -0600 >>>> To: TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com >>>> Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE-L] Fentress County Smith Y-DNA Project >>>> Resent-From: TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com >>>> Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:55:11 -0700 >>>> >>>> Ron, >>>> >>>> I am following with interest your efforts to sort out the SMITHS of >>>> Fentress >>>> County. I would be glad to help, but my SMith connection is four >>>> generations >>>> back and I really know no living Smith males that I am related to. My >>>> g-g-grandmother was Millie Ann Smith, born in KY in 1840 married Thomas >>>> Riley III. He died in 1864, a causualty of the Civil War, and his wife >>>> Millie died about 16 months later, in 1865. Millie was pregnant with >>>> their >>>> first child when Thomas was killed by Tinker David Beatys men. The >>>> daughter >>>> was born May 16, 1864, and named Lodema Thomas Riley. >>>> >>>> Millie Ann Smith's parents, Isaac Denton Smith and Zerelda Ann Smith, >>>> were >>>> first cousins, the children of Phillip Smith and Raccoon John Smith, >>>> respectively. Phillip moved his family to Fentress County and died >>>> here. >>>> Millie Ann Smith had a brother, Isaac Woolsey SMith who was a school >>>> teacher >>>> and superintendent of schools in Pickett County had two daughters. I >>>> know of >>>> none other of the male children who stayed in either TN or KY. Raccoon >>>> John >>>> (Elder John Smith) went to MO and died there. Zerelda Ann was his >>>> daughter >>>> by his first wife. Other children by his first wife were burned to death >>>> in >>>> a fire in Alabama. He returned to KY and remarried and had other >>>> children, >>>> but I don't know what happened to them. >>>> >>>> Anyway, good luck on your project. I am trying to do the same with our >>>> Beaty >>>> lines who settled in Fentress County. We have a DNA project and I am a >>>> donor >>>> and have secured the participation of at least four others of different >>>> lines that we know are connected, but in a couple of cases, haven't been >>>> able to prove it. >>>> >>>> Willie >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Ron Smith" <rsmith0127@yahoo.com> >>>> To: <TNFENTRE-L@rootsweb.com> >>>> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:20 PM >>>> Subject: [TNFENTRE-L] Fentress County Smith Y-DNA Project >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi Millie and everyone, I hope everyone has a fantastic & blessed >>>>> Thanksgiving this week! >>>>> As everyone probably knows, we have had a terrible time trying to >>>>> separate and identify all the different Smith lines in Fentress County. >>>>> Recently, I was contacted by Becky Smith who descends from Matthew >>>>> "Mathie" Smith & Ebba ??? who lived in Dist. 11 of Fentress Co. My >>>>> g-g-grandfather, George W. Smith and his wife, Judith Garrett also >>>>> lived >>>>> in Dist. 11 with their family. Dist. 11 was called the "Olympus" area >>>>> on >>>>> the census' that were taken. I strongly believe these two families may >>>>> have been connected because they don't show up in Oma Smith's book with >>>>> any amount of mention. Also, because we can't seem to find any records >>>>> on >>>>> them - Fentress Co. Courthouse burnt down a couple of times - I believe >>>>> the only way we can positively identify these and other Smith lines is >>>>> to >>>>> ask male Smith family members who have researched their families to >>>>> participate in a Y-DNA project. >>>>> My brother, Scott Smith has already taken and has his Y-DNA posted on >>>>> the >>>>> Southern Smith's Y-DNA page. There are now well over a hundred other >>>>> Smith's that have also tested and posted their family trees. I would >>>>> like >>>>> to try and organize a 3 county Smith Y-DNA project for males with the >>>>> SMITH surname that have ancestors from Fentress, Overton, and Pickett >>>>> counties. If you are trying to research the Smith's from any of these >>>>> 3 >>>>> counties, please contact me at: rsmith0127@yahoo.com >>>>> >>>>> Please let me know which line you are researching, what county, and who >>>>> you might have that would be interested in participating. This project >>>>> would only be for male Smith's because the test only checks the Y-DNA >>>>> which is carried only by the males of the line. I would suggest a >>>>> minimum >>>>> 25 marker test because the 12 marker test really doesn't tell much. >>>>> Here >>>>> is the link to the Southern Smith Reconstruction Project: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.southernsmiths.org/smithdnaproject.htm >>>>> >>>>> If you can't participate, but have a father, uncle, brother, or cousin >>>>> with the Smith surname, you can submit them if they are willing. You >>>>> can >>>>> go to the above link for more info. Also, if you go to the "Test >>>>> Results" >>>>> and look in Haplogroup I, you will see Kit #9011 - George W. Smith, >>>>> Fentress Co., TN - this is my brother, Scott's Y-DNA. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ==== TNFENTRE Mailing List ==== >>>>> Do not spam or send derogatory comments to any other subscriber to this >>>>> list. >>>>> It will happen once and then you will be permanently removed. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ==== TNFENTRE Mailing List ==== >>>> Please do not write your message with CAPS on. 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