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Note for: Sarah Lintecum, 7 NOV 1809 - AFT 1865 Index
[Abram_Smith_VA.ged]
According to others researching this Smith line, this is the Sarah, wife
of Abram Smith.
I haven't seen any hard evidence myself to know if it's so.
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Note for: Abram Smith, - Index
[Abram_Smith_VA.ged]
Census: 1850 VA, Washington Co, census, district 67
Census: There are two Abram Smith families in this district, both with
wife Sarah and both have Thos as a son.
Notes
Note for: Virginia Moore, ABT 1863 - Index
[Abram_Smith_VA.ged]
his 2nd wife
married July 16, 1880 in Sullivan, Tenn
research: Shelia Steel Hunt/genealogist Kingsport, TN
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Note for: Thomas Litton Smith, ABT 1836 - AFT 1900 Index
[Abram_Smith_VA.ged]
Resource Book "1st Virginia Cavalry" by Robert J. Driver
"Smith, Thomas L. Pvt. Co. D (2nd) b. VA circa 1836. Farmer, age 24.
Abington, P.O., Washington Co. 1860. Enlisted Abingdon 5/14/1861. Present
until AWOL 11-12/63. Present until ab. on detached service in Hanover
hospital 5-6/63. Present until detailed as wagoner 10/6-31/63. Present
through 2/64. Transferred 45th VA. Infantry on postwar roster. NFR.
Farmer, age 34, Abingdon PO. Washington County. 1870 census. Attended
reunion, Abingdon 7/4/92. Receiving pension Smyth County 1900.
Email from Robert Lee Henderson Captain 1st VA Cavalry, Co. D. "The
Washington Rifles" reenactors group, gave me the following information(
2/24/2002):
From the diary of Thomas Colley who was a corporal in the 1st. VA.
Handwritten and currently in the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond.
"Smith, Thomas- General Stigins: He is yet alive. He was a fiddler and
could sing anything. He was a perfect mimic and droll. He was the life
of the camp. He told Captain Jones plain square out he could not stand
the singing ziging of the bullets - to please give him something else to
do. Jones put him in charge of our pack mules and he stuck to them until
he was transferred to the 45th Virginia regiment. He served with that
regiment until the close of the war. The men all loved and respected
him."
Census:
1900 Russell Co, Elk Gardern dist 9, enumeration 55, page 94
Smith, T. L. head b. June 1838 61 yrs (I
think it's June, it was hard to see), he was listed as a farmer.
---------- Virginia A. wife b. June 1861 37 yrs (stated
that she delivered 15 kids of which 9 were living)
---------- Mary daughter b. June 1881 18 yrs
---------- John L. (?) son b. Jan 1883 17 yrs
---------- Whitley F. son b. Feb 1885 15 yrs (would
this be a Fullen middle name?)
---------- Bejamin G. son b. Feb 1887 13yrs (I
think this is Gilder who drowned at 19 yrs of age)
---------- Henrietta daughter b. Mar 1890 10 yrs
---------- Walter C. son b. Jan 1892 8 yrs (my
grandfather)
---------- Hattie L. daughter b. July 1895 4 yrs
---------- Charles L. son b. Dec 1899 5/12
---------- Robert C. son b. Dec 1899 5/12
Now, my uncle told me that Thomas Smith died when my grandfather was 8,
so he must have died sometime in the year after this census. Also Thomas
applied for a civil war pension in 1900 in Russell County. On the
application he's listed as being in the 1st Virginia Cavalry Co. D, and
that his reason was a gunshot in the leg.
1880 Russell Co., Elk Garden page 22, dist 5, enumeration 71
Smith, Thomas L. head 42 yrs farmer VA (parents born)
---------, Jinnie (?) daughter 11 yrs
---------, Edward M. son 9 yrs
---------, Carrie W. daughter 7 yrs
---------, George M. son 5 yrs
---------, Sarah mother 73 yrs (it's also listed that
she's suffering from old age)
~SS#: Found that the L. in Thomas's middle name was "Litton" from his
son, John Wesley Smith's social security application, where it is written
out as such.