1700's William Smith Sr's father immigrates from
is raised in
Welty's family
agrees that the male ancestor came from England.
Carolina—Most Census
data, 1880 census, Welty, Leannah and William
Smith Jr say North Carolina.
Possibly in Virginia---one
Census, also Artilla’s obituary.
This part of Warren Co.
will later become Simpson Co.
He is 22. She is 15.
They are in the Bourbon County census of 1800.
1810 William Smith Sr is 11 years old.
1812-1815
The United States is at war with England. "War of 1812"
There are no battles in
North Carolina. The effect on the
Smith family is unknown.
Feb 1816 Mary Welty born in Simpson Co. Kentucky.
1820 William
Smith Sr 20 years old, Probable year of marriage,
North Carolina or
Virginia. Identity of his first wife is
unknown.
1890 census listing for William Smith Jr says his father and
mother were both born in
North Carolina. 1880 census for William Smith
Jr and LeAnnah also say North Carolina.
1820 Bethany
Smith born in Virginia. 1850 Hawkins
Co. Tn.
Census, dated 7
Sept. Birthday must be between 1 Jan
and 7 Sept. The 1820 Caswell Co. N. Carolina
Census lists William
Smith Sr, wife and one female
slave.
8
Feb, 1823 William Smith Jr born, Caswell Co. N.C. Tombstone and obituary.
1825 Mary Ann Smith born,
Caswell Co. N.C. Tombstone
Settlers begin moving
into Missouri.
1826 Abraham Welty moves family from Simpson Co.
Kentucky
to
Lincoln Co. Mo. They travel in covered wagons and bring their slaves.
5 Oct 1826
Leannah (Leanna) Smith born,
Caswell Co. N.C. Obituary
8
June 1828 Sidney Smith born, Caswell Co. N.C.
Tombstone.
1829 William
Smith Sr is 30 years old.
1
June 1829 Abraham Welty buys 80 acres
from the government in Lincoln Co. Mo.
His wife will sell this
land to William Smith Sr, after
Abraham dies. This
land is probably where
the cabin in the Smith cabin photo stood.
1830 Calvin
Smith born in Caswell Co. N.C. 1850
Census, Lincoln Co.
Mo. William
Smith Sr is 31 years old.
If we have the correct
1830 census for Caswell County,
the family holds no
slaves, and there is the possibility that another
son 5 to 10 years old
will die shortly, that we have no record of.
1832 Lincoln County has a outbreak of cholera.
1834 Thomas Smith born in
Caswell Co. N.C. Thomas’s
Confession. He says his
mother dies when he is 9. The 1860
census
lists his age as 25. He was living with Sidney.
1836 The Welty family owns land in Lincoln Co.
Moses Bond and Zilliah
Welty Bond own 120 acres. Abraham Welty
owns 120 acres. He is listed as a second owner on 80 acres
listed under
Francis Parker's
name. Another 40 acres is in his son
Elisha Welty's name.
Joseph R. Welty is
listed as co owner of 40 acres with Charles Early, the
husband of Rosannah
Welty Early. The other married daughters
are
also in the county.
Sept 1836
Azariah (Asia) A. Smith born
in Caswell Co. N.C. 1850 census of
Lincoln Co. Mo. There is disagreement in the records, some
show
he was born in 1837.
1837 Lorean
(Laura Ann) Smith born in Caswell Co. N.C.
1850
census of Lincoln Co. Mo. Also
known as Laura A. Smith.
28 Aug 1838
Abraham Welty buys another 40 acres from the government,
in Lincoln Co. Mo. His
wife will also sell this piece to William
Smith
Sr in just a few years.
21 Jul 1839
Mary Welty marries John H.
Trail. Lincoln Co. Mo.
1840 William Smith Sr is 41 years old. The Smiths and
Appleberrys are not
listed in the Hawkins Co. Tn.
Census. Missouri is surrounded on the North and West
by
Indian reservations.
1840 Bethany
is reported to have been married to John W. Appleberry
in Pittslyvania County,
Virginia. Audrey's Appleberry genealogy.
1841 Azariah
is born in Caswell Co. N. Carolina. 1880
census of Precinct 5,
Douglas Colorado.
Late
1841 The family leaves N.C. for Tenn. All of the family except
William Smith Sr and Jr
will spend most of a year near Bulls Gap, Tenn.
Bulls Gap is at the
southern tip of Hawkins County. Thomas describes his
father "as a kind
and indulgent man, who moved the family to Tennessee
for about a year then
moved them on to Troy, Missouri."
Thomas's Confession
Dec 1841
William Smith Sr and Jr leave East Tennessee for Lincoln
County, Missouri.
1842 William
Smith Jr arrives in Lincoln Co. Mo.
Jan-Feb- Mar. Obituary
William Smith Sr almost certainly also arrives.
Late
1842 Mrs. Smith dies in Tenn.
Charles W. Smith. Based on
Thomas's
confession, Mrs. Smith may have died very early in
1843.
Missouri is known as the
Western Wilderness, to the people of Virginia,
and North Carolina. The trip from East Tennessee to Lincoln County,
Mo, should have taken 8
weeks or less by horse and wagon, based
on the time it took
others, that have talked about the trip.
7 Apr 1842
Abraham Welty dies. Lincoln Co. Mo.
Mary Welty Trail divorces her husband this year.
Spring
1842 The first wagon train leaves
Independence, Missouri heading for Oregon.
Fall 1842
William Smith Sr returns to
East Tennessee for the rest of the family.
William Smith Jr may have stayed in Lincoln County.
Dec 1842
William Smith Sr leaves East
Tennessee with the rest of the family for
Lincoln County, Missouri.
5 Feb 1843
Lee Annah Smith arrives in
Lincoln Co. Mo. All the small
children had apparently
spent the year 1842 in Tenn.
Thomas’s Confession.
1843 is the most probable
year for Bethany’s marriage to John
W.
Appleberry.
This occurred in Hawkins Co. Tn.
They will have
four children, William,
Mary, Martha C., and Daniel R. Only
Martha
will marry and have
children. Six girls, and one son.
1844 Bethany Smith Appleberry’s first child
is born in Tn.
1850 census of Hawkins
Co. Tn.
7 Mar 1844
William Smith Sr marries Mary Welty
8
May 1844 William Smith Jr marries Mary East, Mary Welty's niece, Lincoln Co. Mo.
They will raise a family of eleven
children.
27
Feb 1845 Mary Smith marries Lewis W. Cannon, Lincoln Co. Mo.
They will have a family
of eight children.
5
June 1845 Cordelia Smith born in
Lincoln Co. Mo. 1850 Census,
Lincoln Co. Mo.
1845 The "Slicker Wars" are
climaxing. Since 1843, horse
thieves have been
whipped with hickory sticks, or ordered to
leave the county by a
given date, or both. The penalty for refusing
to leave was either
"slicking" or death, depending on the seriousness
of the case. As many as 1200 stolen horses were taken to a
sale barn
in St Louis in one year
during this period. The
"slickers" were
also after
counterfeiters who were operating in the county.
29
Dec 1845 The United States annexes
Texas from Mexico.
1846 Sidney, Thomas and Azariah head out the Oregon trail.
Savage
bio.
Family lore says Azariah was
a horse thief. Maybe just the
youngest member of the
gang. They are 18, 12, and 9.
They apparently don’t
stay long in Oregon. The "Slicker
wars" are
winding down in Lincoln
County. There is a possibility the
Smith brothers got run
out of the county by the "Slickers".
William Smith Jr and family are living about 4 miles NNW of Troy.
21
Jan 1846 Martha Caroline Appleberry
is born to Bethany in Tennessee.
April 1846
The United States and Mexico are at war.
No relatives are involved.
July 1846
California declares itself a territory of the United States.
1847 Sidney,
and maybe Thomas and Azariah come back from Oregon.
The Mormons begin
migrating to Utah, on a trail that parallels the
Oregon Trail.
13
Mar 1847 Artilla (Ida) Smith born in Lincoln Co. Mo. 1850 Census,
Lincoln Co. Mo.
14
Sept 1847 The United States captures
Mexico City.
2 Feb 1848
A peace treaty with Mexico is signed.
Texas, California, and New
Mexico are ceded to the
United States.
1 May 1848
Drucilla "Lucy" Smith born in Lincoln Co. Mo. 1850 Census.
1847 1848
Lewis and Mary Smith Cannon, and daughter Rachel, go to Marion
County, Oregon, on the
Oregon Trail.
1848 David Presley and Mahala Welty Presley, and
children,
including Barbara, go to
Oregon.
1848 Sidney goes back to Oregon.
Given the family relationships, the
Cannon's, Presley's and Sidney, probably all traveled together.
Thomas and Azariah will
either go back with him or go back in
1849 with Calvin.
2 May 1848
Leannah Smith marries John
Edward Creech, Lincoln Co. Mo.
1848 Gold is discovered in California.
13
Feb 1849 Sidney Smith marries Barbara Presley in Linn Co.
Oregon, then goes on to
California, leaving his wife with
the Presley's. They will have four children.
Spring 1849
The 49er gold rush is on, out the Oregon and Mormon Trails.
Cholera hits the
travelers on the trails.
23
July 1849 Welty Smith born in
Lincoln Co. Mo. Tombstone. See Welty Smith
Event log for his life
story.
1849 Calvin
goes to California. Charles W. Smith.
1849 Cholera occurs in the county. There are only a few isolated deaths.
1850 William
Smith Sr is 51 years old. Census
says he is 51.
and owns two female slaves, 38 and 2 years old. Mary Welty
only owns one slave, a female , aged 19.
Her daughter Rachel Welty
Hunter has died, and her children, Mary E., Margaret, and John w.
hunter,
are living with her.
Calvin, Thomas, and Azariah are
home from Oregon. Census.
8 Apr
1850 Walton Perkins, of Troy,
makes up a wagon train, heading for the gold
fields of
California. They plan to make it to
Sacramento by September.
Other wagon trains from
Troy will form up, and a
few people will go to
California by boat. Most will return to
Troy.
25
Aug 1850 Britton Smith born in
Lincoln Co. Mo.
Late in the year Bethany dies
in Hawkins Co. Tn. probably of.
childbirth complications. Martha
C. Adams statement.
Dec 1850
The Mary Smith Cannon family
is in Marion Co. Oregon.
20
Feb 1851 Calvin marries Mary Howell, Lincoln Co. Mo. They will have a
son. Samuel Thomas Smith.
Spring
1852 Calvin leaves his family and heads west. His wife is pregnant.
She moves in with her
dad, Samuel Howell. Calvin has left her no
means of support. Mary's divorce petition. Thomas
and Azariah
also go west.
26
Jun 1852 Sidney rejoins family in Oregon.
1 Aug 1852
Sidney files for homestead in
Marion Co. Oregon.
Aug 1852
Calvin's son Samuel T. is
born in Lincoln County, Mo.
Mary Howell's divorce
petition.
7 Dec 1852
Christopher Columbus Smith is born, Lincoln Co. Mo.
1854
Thomas is in Oregon with Sidney, then goes to Calif. He confesses to
"having an
ungovernable desire to travel, moved to California, where I
formed friends amongst
all classes of vicious and desperate men".
Thomas's Confession
12
May 1854 William Smith Sr buys the first 60 acres of what will become the
home
place. The tract includes the Smith cabin. The land is bought from
the Britton's and John
Woolfolk. The price is $600.00.
William Smith Sr will name a son Britton. The cabin, in later years,
consisted of a large
downstairs room, with stairs in the SW corner leading
to a bedroom above for
the children. There may have been
additional
partitions in the
original version. Lincoln County is hit
by a drought.
29
Jan 1856 Mary Howell Smith files for
divorce from Calvin. He is said to be
a non resident of
Missouri. Notice of the divorce petition
is to be published
in the Troy Gazette, for
eight weeks. L. C. C. C. R., Book E,
1855-1859, p.32. The divorce petition is stored in the
Recorders vault,
Sec. D, Box 29, Env. 16.
15
May 1856 The court makes a preliminary finding for Mary in the divorce case.
L.C. C. C. R., Book E, p.
56, 57.
9 Oct 1856
Mary is divorced from Calvin. Lincoln County Circuit Court Records,
Book E, p. 149, Lincoln
Co. Mo. Calvin
was not present for the
proceedings. Mary is awarded custody of their son.
1856
Lorean marries Matthew
(Mathew) Crouch. They are living in
Clark
Township, at least 2 miles
south of the homeplace.
They will raise four
children, the first of which will be named
Calvin Emery, b. 1857 and
the second Cordelia b. 1859.
Sarah Catherine is third,
b. 1862.
William Thomas is born in
1864.
1857 Lewis and Mary Smith Cannon move from Oregon to Sonoma Co.
California.
1
June 1857 Phoenia "Fina"
"Farnie" "Faunie" Smith, the last child of William Smith Sr
is born, Lincoln Co. Mo.
1857-1859
A financial crisis occurs, ruining many small businessmen.
20
May 1858 William Smith Sr buys 100 acres from Moses Bond to add to the
home place. The price is $1,300.00.
1858 A gold rush occurs to the area of Pikes Peak
Colorado.
24
Dec 1858 Giles, a slave, gets drunk with
his owner, Simeon Thornhill, and stabs him
to death.
25
Dec 1858 Giles is arrested and put in
jail in Troy.
1 Jan 1859
James Calloway leads a group of men, who break down the jail door, take
him to the jail yard, and
burn him at the stake. Calloway, James
Segrass,
and Samuel Carter, plead
not guilty, when brought to trial, and the case is
dismissed by the circuit
attorney.
28
Jan 1860 William Smith Sr buys the final
80 acres of the home place from
Moses Bond.
1860 William Smith Sr is 61 years old. Calvin and Azariah are in California.
Yuba Co. California Census. Thomas and Sidney are in Linn Co.
Oregon. Census. Thomas is in California part of the
year. Thomas’s
Confession. The Lincoln Co.
sheriff sells William Smith Jr's 80
acres, which lie about 1 mile NE of the home place, to settle
claims of some East relatives.
1860 The
yearly report of the Masonic lodges of Missouri shows that
Moses Bond starts as Junior Warden and then is promoted to
Senior Warden of Troy Lodge, # 34.
William Smith Jr. is a
member.
Lincoln County is hit by drought.
11
June 1860 The census taker records that
all the second family children, have attended
school the past year. William
Smith Sr does not own any slaves.
Mary
Welty has a slave
cabin, and 5 female slaves. Their ages
are, 27, 8, 6, 4,
and 2. Their names are given when she write her will
in Oct. 1861.
William Smith Jr, and family, LeeAnnah
and John Creech and family,
and Moses Bond are all
living in Bedford township. LeeAnnah is near
Old Alexandria. Calvin's
ex wife Mary and son Thomas S. are living
with her dad Samuel
Howell. 1860 census. The census taker in Hawkins
County Tenn. records
that Mary Appleberry, Bethany's
daughter is
working as a domestic for
the John Phillips family in District 1.
5 Jan 1861
The Missouri Senate introduces bills to arm the state militia, and to
call
a state convention.
March 1861
South Carolina secedes from the Union.
Missouri's governor, Clairborn
Jackson, establishes a Home Guard
Brigade in each
congressional district, under Br Generals.
He
tells the North and the
South to "Stay out of Missouri and leave
us alone"
12
Apr 1861 The first shots of the Civil
War are fired at Ft Sumter, S. Carolina.
May 1861
Governor Jackson meets with Captain Lyon, of the federal army
in St Louis. Captain Lyon orders the Home Guard units be
disbanded, or Federal troops will drive
them off Missouri soil.
Jackson refuses. Captain Lyon orders Gen Frost's command in
St Louis "be
taken".
10
May 1861 Gen Frosts command is taken
without a shot, but civilians fire on the
federal troops. Several civilians are killed. This Battle of St Louis
brings the war to
Missouri.
15
June 1861 Lt Burbridge is recruiting
rebels for the Louisiana Company in Millwood.
Mid 1861
Federal cavalry units from Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin are rushed to
Missouri to occupy
county seats, and help the newly formed
Missouri Militia.
Union troops shut down the pro south "States
Rights Gazette"
of Troy. Newspaper publishing
will not occur again in
Troy until after the war.
24
July 1861 The Auburn Company of Home
Guards, are Union forces operating in
Lincoln Co. there may be other Home Guard units in the
county also.
Summer
1861 Capts T. M. Carter and George
Carter raise two companies for
the Confederate Army in
Lincoln Co. In Aug Capt James Reid
raises a Union Company
for Col Fagg's Regiment, in Lincoln County.
30
Aug 1861 Mj Gen Fremont declares
martial law in Mo. and issues an
unauthorized
emancipation proclamation, freeing Mo. slaves, and
allowing confiscation of the property of
southern supporters.
Fall 1861
Col. Henderson brings Federal troops, and occupies Troy
for a short time.
9 Oct. 1861
Mary Welty is writing her will.
She is giving her slaves to various
family members, and the
rest is to be divided evenly. She first
writes a
version with the
following in it. "On account of the
treatment that I have
of late received from Polly Smith (Mary), the wife of the said
William
Smith, I leave the sum of five
dollars only." In the section
dividing the
remainder of the estate
she says "all my living children, with the exception
of Polly Smith, the wife of William
Smith Senior, will have a equal share"
These references to Polly
(Mary) are lined out before the will is recorded.
The slaves are Julian,
the mother, and four daughters, Emily, Niurgarehla,
Adelone, and
Barbara. The slaves are all sold before
Mary Welty dies.
2 Nov 1861
Lincoln rescinds Fremont's orders and replaces him with Gen Grant.
Fall
1861 Thomas is in Oregon. He says
"my life has always been a discontented and
miserable one; anxiety
and melancholy have been my constant companions
for years. He "roved through California, then moved
to Oregon in 1861;
wanted to try the mines
again, made an outfit and started to the Idaho mines
in the fall of
1861" Thomas's Confession. In
Idaho he files gold mine
claims in Gander Gulch,
Illinois Gulch, and Gal Currier.
1861? Early in the war William Smith Sr sells his slaves and invests
the money in Southern
script. This is a family tale that loses
credibility since he is
not recorded as owning slaves in the 1860 census.
Dec
1861 Gen John B. Henderson brings union
troops to Lincoln Co. to
clean up a hotbed of
Confederate activity. He is reported to
have made a new county
out of it. He moves on to Mexico
the last week of Dec.
1861-1862 Logan Howell with the 5th Iowa Cavalry
writes Mary "Polly" H. Howell,
Calvin's ex wife, from somewhere between Clarksville and Paducah,
Kentucky. He tells Samuel Thomas, Calvin's son to be a good boy, and
says he wants to see him
very bad. He also mentions Mary Smith,
William Smith Jr,s daughter, and Sarah Howell Kennedy, his sister.
1862-1864?
William Smith Sr is hiding a
favorite grey mare from the Federals
Federal troops came by
farm and want the corn. They took the
corn
Welty and Britton
had picked and cribbed. They came by
again and
wanted to be fed. They killed a bunch of chickens, ate them,
then cut wood to pay
for them. William Smith Jr is living on a farm
down near
Winfield. He is running a threshing
machine.
7 Mar 1862
Union troops break up a rebel camp on Bob's creek, on the southern
edge of Lincoln Co.
9 Mar 1862
Troy is occupied for a time by 400 rebel bushwhackers. They are
robbing union men, and
have sworn the clerks of the courts.
10
Mar 1862 Federal troops are brought out
of St Charles, Col Krekles regiment,
and Warrenton, to
retake Troy. Federal troops
will occupy Troy
several more times before the war is over.
12
Mar 1862 Two companies of the 5th Mo
Cav are ordered to occupy Troy.
They are to ferret out
and bring to justice the jayhawkers,
and insurgents in the
area. They have the power to seize
property.
They are to put the incorrigible out of
the way, either by death or
imprisonment. They are empowered to secure the good conduct
of rebels through the
use of bonds and oaths.
June 1862
Col Porter is recruiting rebels, for the 1st Northeast Regiment of
Confederate Cavalry, at
Olney.
20
July 1862 General Schofield, commander
of the Union, Missouri State Militia, orders
all men of military age
to join the Enrolled Missouri State Militia.
Many
join the rebs instead.
28
July 1862 William Smith Jr enlists as a Sergeant in the 37th Regiment,
Enrolled Missouri
Militia." Shirt Tail Militia", "Lincoln Co. Home
Guard".
17 Aug 1862 Col Krekel's Reg,
and the Enrolled Militia are the Union forces
responsible for Lincoln
Co.
22
Sept 1862 Lincoln announces that in 100
days he will issue a Emancipation
Proclamation freeing
the slaves, in the areas of southern states
not under Union
occupation..
Dec 1862
William Smith Jr enlists in
the Union Army Company B,
of the 32nd Missouri
Infantry Volunteers.
He's taken to
Benton Barracks in St Louis, by Major Morris, and sold to
another
recruiting Captain. He and his buddies,
which include
Elisha East, and Moses
Howell, break out and desert. Asa East
stays,
and is
assigned to another Company.
1
Jan 1863 Lincoln issues the
Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves.
It does not
apply to Missouri. There are 2,500
slaves in Lincoln Co.
15
Jan 1863 Lincoln County is assessed
$5,700, to be paid by disloyal citizens
to Union
families that had men killed or wounded, or had property
destroyed by
the rebels.
2 Apr 1863
Sidney and a non-Smith
partner, buy two mining
claims on Mores
Creek. Idaho City, Idaho, claims
office.
Apr.
–May 1863 Sixty rebels under Todd,
Pulliam, Beckman and Rucker are raiding
in Pike and Lincoln
County.
June 1863
Capt McVaden has a battalion of Federal troops in Troy.
Aug 1863
Every disloyal person in the District of North Missouri was required
to take the loyalty
oath and post a $1,000 bond to guarantee such loyalty.
10
Sept 1863 William Smith Jr is relieved from duty in the 37th Regiment
Enrolled Missouri
Militia. He is credited with 27 days of
service.
Call ups were generally
for 30 days or less.
7 Jan 1864
William Appleberry, Bethany’s
son dies. He was unmarried.
11
Feb 1864 John W. Appleberry, Bethany’s husband dies. Both die of
disease while in the
Union army in Kentucky. They are buried
in
the Camp Nelson
Cemetery, Jessamine County, Kentucky, in
plots A48 and A 49.
5 May 1864
General Order # 2, requires all southern sympathizers to
surrender their arms.
Sum 1864
Thomas returns to Oregon from
Idaho.
1 Aug 1864
The men of Lincoln Co. are facing the possibility of being
drafted into the Federal
army. The County court meets, and
borrows money to pay 205
men a $100 bounty each for volunteering
to serve.
Sept 1864
All citizens in Lincoln Co. will be required to take a oath of
Allegiance.
Sept 1864
William Smith Sr, visited by
Union troops, and faced with the
requirement to take the
"Iron Clad Oath of Allegiance,
to the Union"
collapses. The Union troops offer to
revive him with a
few good kicks. He revives, but we are not told if
he took the oath. In1863 the authorities in St Louis codified
the
following oath. "I do solemnly swear that I will bear
true allegiance
to the United States and
support and sustain the Constitution and
laws thereof; that I
will maintain the national sovereignty paramount
to that of all State, county
or Confederate powers; that I will
discourage,
discountenance, and forever oppose secession, rebellion,
and the disintegration
of the Federal Union; that I disclaim and
denounce all faith and
fellowship with the so-called Confederate
armies, and pledge my
honor, my property, and my life to the
sacred performance of
this oath of allegiance to the government
of the United Stated of
America." To remain in Union held
counties, often a bond
was also required. Violations of the
oath resulted in court
martial, fines, prison or a death sentence.
Fall 1864
Sidney goes to Idaho. Calvin
and Azariah are already there. Azariah
has a gold mine claim on
Moore's Creek, Calvin has claims on
Northern Light and
Alabama.
Thomas is left in charge of Sidney's
Oregon ranch. He takes a fancy to
Rhoda Ann, Sidney's daughter.
4 Oct 1864
Lincoln Co. is infested with guerrillas.
The Enrolled Militia is called
out.
26
Oct 1864 A Battalion of the 6th
Missouri Cavalry is sent to Lincoln Co. to
destroy Confederate bands
run by Wood and Dorsey. The Enrolled
Militia
from Lincoln County are
on a scout into Boone and Howard Counties.
1864 Abraham Welty’s wife Mary dies. Lincoln Co.
Mo. Between 15 Oct
and 10 Dec. She is 77 years old. She is buried in the Howell Cemetery,
Tucker graveyard.
10
Dec 1864 William Smith Jr, in the
settlement of the estate, is paid for taking Mary
Rowland Welty's slaves,
on this date, to Wright City, to sell.
Winter
1864-65 Troy is occupied by Capt
Kimpinski's Company of the
49th Regt. Mo. Vol.
1865
Lorean and her husband Mathew
Crouch are in Pike County,
Illinois. He is selling his share of his fathers land
in Lincoln county,
leaving a record of
where he's living. Lorean (Laura Ann) Smith Crouch
will die this year, perhaps
in Pike County, Illinois. Mary
Applebury,
Bethany's daughter dies in Tennessee. She was unmarried. Martha
Appleberry Adams
information.
Jan 1865
Missouri abolishes slavery, within the state.
William Smith Jr has rented a farm up near Troy. When the war is over
he will return to
Winfield area.
Mar 1865
Lincoln Co. faced with another requirement to draft men, borrows
money to pay a $200.
total bonus for 103 men to serve in the
Missouri Volunteers for
12 months. They continue to take
these actions till the
end of the war.
21
Mar 1865 William Smith Jr is prosecuted in Lincoln Co. for selling liquor
without a license. He is fined $20 and court costs.
Spring 1865
Troy is occupied by the Col Charles W. Parker and the 37th EMM.
9 April 1865
General Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse.
4 May 1865
General Taylor surrenders the Confederate forces in Mississippi
and Alabama. Many Missourians are with this force.
26
May 1865 General Kirby Smith surrenders
his force in Texas. The war
is over.
1865 The following family members, in addition to
those mentioned
elsewhere, served in
the civil war. Some would become part of
the
family through
marriage after the war. Some served in
more than one
organization. Some were wounded and some did not survive
the war.
Union: 37th
Regt. Enrolled Missouri Militia, [Shirt Tail
Militia] Co. B, Capt. Seymore Cannon, 2nd Lt Elisha Welty
Early,
2nd Lt Herman Schaper,
1st Lt Larkin Creech.
2nd Provisional Regt, Enrolled Missouri
Militia [Detailed Militia] [Six Month Service] Co. C,
Moses
Howell, Richard East,
Elisha Welty "Doc" East.
3rd Missouri Militia, Cavalry, Mj James Wilson, 2nd Lt Isaac W.
Cannon, John East Co. G,
David Hubbard Cannon, Joseph W.
Kallish Jr, John W.
East, John Welty Hunter, Thomas Hobbs,
Stephen Burdett
Claggett, William Henry Claggett, Thomas B. East Jr,
Elisha Welty Howell,
Francis Marion Howell, Elemuel Kinion,
Reuben Presley, Daniel
Madden.
49th Missouri Infantry Capt.
Joseph Bedford Howell, 1st Lt Allen
Howell, Samuel Livingston Howell, John Self East,
Richard Henry East,
Corporal Joseph Rinaman
2nd Missouri Light Artillery Regt.
Henry Welty, Daniel Welty.
5th Regt. Iowa Volunteer Cavalry [Curtis Horse] Sgt Logan
Howell.
Phelps Independent Regiment Albis H. East
117th Infantry, Ohio Volunteers, John Baughman
Unidentified Units: Warren
Howell
Confederates: 2nd
Missouri Regt. of Infantry, Pvt John
Wilson,
10th Mo. Pvt William Carwell
Others: There are numerous
distantly related Welty's and Weldy's,
from Pike Co., and SE
Mo. as well as from eastern states who served,
primarily in the Union
Army.
1865 1866
Cholera is present in the county.
No deaths are reported.
Jan 1866
The Troy Herald publishes its first issue, under Ellis, the publisher
who
had been run out of the
state for his pro south views. He still
has them,
and lets all know it.
Jan 1866
Sidney comes home to Oregon.
Thomas and Azariah are
minor partners in Sidney's ranch. Azariah
works out of
Union County,
Oregon. Sydney inquires about the affair
between
Thomas and Rhoda during the cattle roundup. Thomas
denies it.
Thomas moves over to the neighboring Kennedy farm. Thomas
tells
Barbara he will kill her
if she says anything to Sydney about Rhoda Ann.
Mar 1866
Barbara tells Sidney, that Thomas has been too familiar with
Rhoda Ann. Sydney
tells Thomas, Rhoda has confessed,
and asks
Thomas to come over and talk about.
Thomas decides to kill Sydney
and Barbara. Sydney,
because he fears he will kill him.
Thomas states
that "he would have
just took off if he had not had cattle that he could not
round up and dispose of
quickly" Thomas's confession.
9 Mar.1866
Thomas arms himself with a
pistol, which he buys or steals from James
Kennedy, and a bottle of
whiskey and goes to Sydney's farm.
Sidney confronts Thomas
and Rhoda Ann. Thomas
shoots Sydney after he starts whipping
Rhoda. He wounds Barbara, and
she and the kids
run. He talks her back to the smokehouse
and knifes her
to death. He tells the people who come by that Sydney murdered Barbara
then committed
suicide.
10
Mar 1866 Thomas is arrested for the murders, and a coroner's jury is
convened.
12
Mar 1866 Preliminary trial held in
Brownsville, Oregon.
26
Mar 1866 Trial in the Circuit Court in
Albany, Oregon. Thomas
found guilty and
sentenced to hang.
16
Apr 1866 Azariah attempts suicide At
Horseshoe Bend, Idaho, when he hears
what's happened. He borrows a pistol from his companion Elisa
Presely,
and shoots himself in
the left breast. Dr Miner extracts the ball from his
back. Azariah
is in a state worrying that the vigilantes will hang him for
trying to kill
himself. There is no further explanation
of why Azariah was
afraid of the vigilantes. (Salem) Oregon Statesman, May 14 1866.
Reprinted from the Idaho
Statesman.
Calvin is in Placerville Idaho.
Spring 1866
Sidney's children, while
playing in the yard, find a buried
leather pouch
containing gold dust. It is reported to
have had $26,000
in gold dust in it.
10
May 1866 Thomas
hung for the murders in Albany Oregon.
Summer
1866 Sydney's estate is settled. Azariah's share is bought out for
$300.
He uses $100 to buy a
horse from the estate.
2 Aug 1866
Azariah and six non Smith
partners file six gold mining
claims on Moores Creek,
at the claims office in Idaho
City, Idaho.
25
Aug 1866 Calvin has returned to Lincoln Co. Mo. He gives Britton a gold nugget
on this day, his 16th
birthday. (Charles W. Smith) There
is a gold rush in
Vermillion Minnesota, north of Duluth.
This probably starts him
off up the eastern edge of Dakota
Territory, in the
spring of 1867.
1867 Calvin's
ex wife marries Alexander Kennedy.
29
April 1868 The Sioux have been at war to
close the Bozeman trail and
close down three Army forts. They succeed.
The Brule,
Ogala, Miniconjou, an
Yanktonais bands of the Sioux and
the Northern Arapaho
sign a treaty giving them South Dakota.
20
Aug 1868 Artilla Smith marries
Joseph Rinaman, Lincoln Co.
He calls her Ida. The marriage takes place at the home
place.
They will have seven
children, including William, Florence, and Annie.
Welty and Phoenia
attend. Since Joseph
fought for the Union
Army it must have been an interesting courtship.
6
Nov 1868 Red Cloud signs the treaty
for the last band of Sioux.
The Big Horn country is
to be unceded Indian territory,
forbidden to whites.
1869 Probable year Calvin dies in the Dakota Territory. His belongings
including six dressed antelope skins are shipped to his father COD
from Sioux City, Iowa. Family
tales say he was killed by Indians.
Although not definitely identified as Calvin, the story goes that he
molested an Indian woman, and when the Indians caught him they
scalped him, skinned him, and then killed him. He may have been
one of the casualties of the war with the Sioux, over the Bozeman trail.
10
Aug 1869 Drusilla Smith marries
Thomas H. Slavens, Lincoln Co.
At some point they will move to Laddonia, in Audrain Co. and raise a
family of twelve? children.
Another source says eleven children.
There
are eleven in the family photo.
Her obituary says she had ten children.
10
Jan 1870 The Letters of Administration
are signed for Calvin Smiths estate.
1870 William
Smith Sr is 71 years old.
16
Feb 1870 The estate administrator
publishes the first notice that Calvin
is dead.
23
Feb 1870 William Smith Sr gets paid $15.10 from Calvin's estate, for the
COD express charges he
paid on the packages of Calvin's
things
shipped from the Dakota
Territory.
24
Feb 1870 Matthew Crouch, Lorean's husband remarries. The new wife is
Mary Francis Mayes. She will die on 26 Jan 1874. LDS records.
1 Mar 1870
Welty Smith marries Margaret A. Rinaman, Lincoln Co.
They will raise eleven
children. See the Welty Smith
event
log, and the James S.
Wilson log for details on this family.
10
Mar 1870 Cordelia Smith marries
William Franklin Powell, Lincoln Co.
Mr. Powell had served
in the Union Army during the Civil
war, in Co C, 2nd
Provisional Regt, Enrolled Missouri Militia.
also known as the
"Detailed Militia".
June 1870
Thomas Slavens and Druscilla are living in Bedford Township.
1870 Census
June 1870 Matthew (Mathew) Crouch, Lorean's husband is remarried and is
living in Hurricane? Township, in the
Northeast corner
of Lincoln County. 1870 Census.
10
June 1870 The census shows Thomas
Jefferson "Bud" Smith is living with and
working as a farm worker
for his grandfather William Smith. He is
William Smith Jrs oldest son.
Welty and Margret are listed as
living with them. Joseph Rinaman and Artilla are shown
living next door.
16
June 1870 The census shows Welty
and Margret living with her parents,
Peter and Sophia
Rinaman. They have managed to get
counted twice.
22
July 1871 Martha Appleberry, Bethany's daughter, marries Aldophus
Julian
Adams, in Bulls Gap,
Green County, Tennessee. They will have
seven
children.
1873 Cholera hits Troy. At least 26 people die. Jay Cooke's railroad
goes bankrupt. The New York Stock Exchange closes for
ten days. The worst depression the country has yet seen
starts.
3 July 1873
William Smith Jr and family,
with related Easts and Kinions, arrive
on Medicine Creek, Dorr
Township, Smith Co. Kansas to homestead.
His daughter Sarah, with
her husband, Stephen B. Claggett,
are also part of the
wagon train. Kinion papers.
14
Oct 1873 Samuel T. Smith, Calvin's son, receives $144.43 from his
fathers estate.
26
Jan 1874 Matthew Crouch, Loreans husband, loses his second wife.
16
Mar 1874 The families of Welty,
Artilla, and Drusilla leave for Kansas to
homestead. One wagon says “Kansas or Bust”. It is not known whether
they headed for the
Kirwin, Kansas colony of Smith's and Claggett's or
somewhere else.
Oct 1874
William Smith Jr, and family,
and the Claggetts,
return to Lincoln
Co. His crops were destroyed by
grasshoppers.
The Kinions and William Smith Jr's son, William Henry
Smith
have stayed in Kansas,
and others will eventually join them.
They form quite a colony
of Smith's, Kinions and
Claggetts around Kirwin
Kansas.
30
Oct 1874 Brittton marries Nancy
J. Holcomb, Lincoln Co. They will raise
eight children.
7 Nov 1874
Welty, Artilla, and Drusilla’s families arrive back in
Lincoln Co. Crops eaten by grasshoppers.
Wagon says
“Busted.”
Jan 1875
William Harrison and Emma Bartlow, bought land in the midst of all our
relatives in 1871. He was in the Union Army with the 6th
Minnesota
Regiment Emma's diary begins in Jan 1875, and provides
real
insight into the social
life of the times. They have several
children, some
living with them, some in
the neighborhood. Their house is ¼ of a
mile E of
the J. East house. J. East is the local postmaster, and appears
to also be
running a small
store. They are 1 mile Se of the W. F.
Powell house. They
are 1 mile SW of the house
of the heirs of William Smith Sr. They
are ¾
mile N of Mrs. F. Slavens
house. Land belonging to the heirs of W.
Slavens
is between them. They are ¾ miles NW of T. M. Slavens
house. They are
2 ¾ miles N of Linn's
Mill. Because Emma, simply says she
visited Mrs.
Slaven's, I cannot be sure
which one she is talking about. There is
also a
Rice family in the
neighborhood, apparently renting land
.At the end of each
year recorded in the diary,
I will summarize the running around.
Where first
names of our family are
supplied, I will show the visit during the year. Travel
was by horse, horse and
buggy, or shanks mare.
7 Jan 1875
Bethany's daughter, Martha
Adams, husband, daughter Lucinda B.
and new son John Proctor
are living in Johnson City, Tenn.
6 Apr 1875
Phiona ? visiting Bartlows.
15
Sept 1875 Aunt Charity East, Asa's wife, and Aggie East visit the
Bartlows. She
uses the title Aunt and
Uncle for old people.
11
Nov 1875 Matthew Crouch Lorean's husband is married for the
third time to
Elizabeth A. Sitton, in
Lincoln county Mo. She was Elizabeth
Jewell,
whose first husband was
Hardin Sitton, who she married on 14 Nov 1849.
He had died on 2 July
1868. LDS records, and Arthur Ealy.
31
Dec 1875 The Bartlows have gone to
Grange meetings at Linn's Mill 25 times, during
the year. A quorum is needed for a meeting, and there
is real
disappointment when one
is not present. Meetings are normally
Saturday
night, with an occasional Thursday
night meeting. Emma reads history, and
sometimes writes papers
to present at the meeting. They get the
"Journal", a
newspaper. They went to Colton church once. They have visited school
once, gone to two dances,
Emma has been to three Circle meetings, her
husband to one barn
raising, Emma has gone berry picking twice, one sale,
three shows, one candy
party, and Emma has gone to two quilting
bees.
They put one of the
showmen up at their house. They have
played euchre
nine times. Emma
has been to the J. East's sixteen times, the J. East's have
returned the visits six
times. Emma has been to Mrs. Slavens ten
times, Mrs.
Slavens has visited three
times. Emma has been to the Rice's
twice, and
they have visited once.
There have been ninety three times
friend or family, other than those
mentioned, have come to
Emma's house. Emma has gone to others
houses
forty five times. Emma and her husband have gone on seven joint
trips to
visit, and jointly gone to
town four times. Her husband has made thirty two
visits to locals. He has gone to town thirty five times. Most of the time he
goes to Troy. When he gets corn ground he goes to Moscow
Mills. If he's
selling cows or pigs, he
goes to St Louis. There are also trips
to Truxton and
Wright City. Since Emma's husband is working or gone most
of the time,
she takes off and visits
whenever she pleases. Emma has gone to
Kennedy's
store a couple of
times. It's location has not been
determined.
Emma has a woman to help
with the house work. She takes the wool
they
shear, picks it, colors
it, and spins it. At some point in the
process its sent to
town and comes back in
"rools". They have cattle,
horses, mules, sheep,
chickens, turkeys, and
pigs. They are raising crops,
butchering, canning,
making clothes, cooking, etc.
yet are getting out and around an amazing
amount.
2 Jan 1876
The Bartlows go to hear Mr. Wesley Slavens preach.
15
Jan 1876 Columbus and Henry have come to
the Bartlows to play cards. Columbus
Smith?
26
Jan 1876 Mr. Bartlow has gone to Jack
Powell's to buy oats. W.F. Powell lives
just
NW of them.
14
Mar 1876 Mr. Bartlow has gone Allen
Howells.
11
Apr 1876 The Bartlows visit Tom
Slavens.
2 May 1876
Mr. J. East and daughter Aggie visit the Bartlows.
15
June 1876 Sarah Slavens visits the
Bartlows.
1
Aug 1876 Mary Ann Smith Cannon dies in California. Tombstone,
Fulkerson Cemetery, Santa Rosa, Somoma
Co. Calif.
17
Sept 1876 The Bartlows visit Tom
Slavens.
17
Oct 1876 The Bartlows host a couple of
colored ladies for dinner.
31
Dec 1876 The Bartlows have gone to
Grange 15 times during the year. Emma
has
been to circle twice,
played card three times, been to two funerals, hickory
nutting twice,
blackberrying twice, and to the Linn's Mill picnic twice. She
also took the train to
Iowa to visit relatives. Her husband has
gone to
Heathy School for a
political meeting, to Troy for a mass meeting, and to a
camp meeting. He has been to town twenty seven times, and
has added
Louisville, and
Millville to his stops. They have seen
the J. Easts thirty six
times, the Slavens ten
times, the W. F. Powells, and the Howells
five times each. Most of these visits were by or to Emma. They have seen
a stream of family and
friends at their place or gone to them.
The number
seems to be down some
from 1986.
1877 Daniel Appleberry, Bethany's youngest son, vanishes for awhile.
He will later turn up in
Montana. Martha Adams
1
May 1877 Emma Barlow goes to Frank
Powells.
17
June 1877 The Bartlows go to the
"Coal Bank" for the "nigger meeting". They
enjoyed it very
much. It is a Sunday, so it may have
been church.
24
June 1877 Emma Bartlow goes to Tom
Slavens.
2 July 1877 William Smith Sr dies. Tombstone.
His obituary states that he had
sent his sons over to
Captain Howell's to work in the harvest field,
and a few hours later he
decided to check up on them. He planned
to walk his fences and
put up some rails that were down, on the way.
That evening he was found
dead near the fence with his cane resting
against it. It is supposed he died of heart disease. He was 78 years
old. Troy Herald 11 July 1877 Captain Howell is apparently
Joseph B. Howell who's
nearest land was about a mile from
William Smith Sr's house.
Captain Howell was Captain of
Company A, 37th Regiment
Enrolled Missouri Militia. This was
Lincoln Countys home
guard reserve unit. It was also called
the
"Shirt Tail
Militia". The entire officer corps
of Company A
consisted of Welty family
members. Allen Howell was the 1st Lt,
Elisha Welty Early was the
2nd Lt. William Smith Jr was the Sgt.
John Self East, Abraham
Howell and Thomas B. Brown were also
in the unit. William
Smith Sr probably was spared the worst during
the last years of the war,
because of his being closely related to
these men. The estate inventory showed he owned
240 acres. Livestock consists of two mares, two horse
mules,
three cows with calves,
one heifer, two brood sows, seven hogs,
and ten sheep. The names of the horses used to draw the red
and green
striped, high spring
wagon were Tom and Ribbon.
"The House Of
Smith", Troy Free Press, Sept 1937.
William
Smith Sr wrote his will on 1 Aug. 1865.
He stated that he had
already given his
children from his first marriage enough, and would
leave all to his wife and
second family. All his seven children
are to
receive a horse, saddle,
bridle, and featherbed, plus a share in
the land when their
mother dies. He writes one grandson out
of
the will. Samual T. Smith, Calvins son. He has shown
him so
much disrespect, that he
doesn't want him to have any part of his estate.
The Bartlows go to
William Smith Sr's funeral, which sounds like it may
have been in the
evening. He is buried at the Slavens
Chapel Cemetery.
Slavens Chapel is a
Methodist Episcopal Church. Wesley
Slavens was a
Methodist minister, and
had the church built on a corner of his farm.
It
disbanded about 1925 or
1926.
26
Aug 1877 Jack Powell visits the
Bartlow's.
24
Oct 1877 Last entry for the year in the
Bartlow diary. Mr. Bartlow has been to
town
twenty one times. They have gone to four sales, four funerals,
one circle
meeting. and been to church once. They have gone to Grange twenty one
times, including Brown's
Grange and County Grange. They have been
to
one school meeting. Emma has visited with the J. Easts nineteen
times, Mrs.
Slavens four times, the
Smiths once, the W. F. Powells three times, and the
Howells once. One of the sons worked in a train trip to
Minnisota. Lots of
other visiting with
family and other friends also going on.
1878 Cordelia and her husband William F.
Powell are
living on a farm one
mile SW of home place in 1878.
At some point they will
move to Audrain Co. Welty and Britton
are renting nearby, or
working the home place land.
23
Apr 1878 Aggie East visits the Barlows.
28
May 1878 Emma Bartlow and friend visit
the Frank Powell's. Probably Cordelia's
husband.
1 July 1878
Emma Bartlow's diary for 1878 stops on 1 July. There have been nineteen
trips to town, mostly by
her husband. She has seen the East's
eighteen
times. They have been to Grange meetings fourteen
times. She has seen
Mrs. Slavens once. They have been to three dances, one school
meeting,
one funeral, six Murphy
meetings, one quilting bee, one Greenback
meeting, and attended
two lectures. They have played checkers
once and
euchre twice. There is the usual visiting with family and
other friends going
on. Her dairy does not resume until Jan 1882.
4 Aug 1878
Azariah marries Amelia A.
Hohanshelt, at Plumb Creek, Douglas County,
Colorado. They will have a daughter.
14
Oct 1878 Azariah pays $700 for some land from Guy Chaffee, in Douglas
County, Colorado.
1880 A Matthew Crouch is listed as being a hotel
or boarding house
manager at Foley in the
Foley Centennial. 1881-1981, p.6. This
may be Lorean's husband. Foley is 15 miles east of Troy. 1880 Census Azariah is in Precinct 5,
Douglas Co. Colorado. He is 39. His wife Amelia
is 22, and his daughter
Leora is 9months old. He prospects and
works as
a teamster for many years
around the mining camps at Leadville.
June 1880
Artilla and her husband and family are living with his parents,
Peter and Sophia
Rinaman. 1880 census.
John and Lee Annah Creech are living in Monroe
Township,
just downstream from the
junction of Big Creek with Cuivre River.
They live on the north
bank and own 80 acres.
William Smith Jr and family are living in Burr Oak
Township, on 40 acres
owned by Moses Bond, adjacent to
160 acres owned by the
East heirs. Britton is living
on 80 acres he's renting
from Moses Bond, in Section 36,
Township 49NR2W in
Bedford Township. He is 1 ½ miles
WSW of the home
place. Welty appears to be renting the
land he will buy as his
home place, or he's very close to it, on the
Lincoln County Coal
Company land. Orion said they lived on
Coal
Company land for
awhile.
1878 land maps, 1880
census.
21
Oct 1880 Christopher Columbus Smith
marries Permilia Jane Rice,
at her family home near
Perry, in Ralls Co. Mo. He will bring
her
back to Lincoln Co.
where they will farm for a few years.
They will
have two sons and a
daughter.
2 Feb 1882
Welty buys some wheat from the Bartlows.
5 Feb 1882
Welty's boys are at the Bartlows, because momma is about to give
birth to
Theron. Probably William Peter, and Burton. Possibly Orion also.
He is six.
10
Feb 1882 The Bartlows go to Welty's
to see the babies.
26
Feb 1882 Joc Powell visits the Bartlows.
1882 Welty buys a "Empire"
binder, Britton buys a "Deering" and
Columbus buys a
"McCormick Deering". The St
Louis and Hannibal
Railroad arrives at Troy.
5 Mar 1882
Mr. Bartlow goes to see Jack Powell.
12
Mar 1882 The Bartlows go to visit Welty
Smith family. It's Sunday.
2 May 1882
The first train leaves Troy for Hannibal.
28
May 1882 Aggie East and friends visit
the Bartlows.
13
July 1882 The Bartlows visit the Britton
Smith family.
16
July 1882 The Bartlows go to Frank
Powells.
4 Sept 1882
Britton Smith has a apple peeling party. The Bartlows go.
7 Oct 1882
Lizzy Slavens visits the Barlows.
15
Oct 1882 Welty Smith and family
visit the Bartlows on a Sunday.
3 Nov 1882
The Bartlows go visit some of the Smiths.
1 Dec 1882
Emma Bartlow visits Lizzie Slavens.
3 Dec 1882
Emma back visiting Lizzie.
10
Dec 1882 Aggie East visits Emma Bartlow.
27
Dec 1883 Phoenia Smith marries
Joseph W. Slavens, Lincoln Co. He
owns a farm 1 mile west
of the home place. Land Map.
They will have three
children.
31
Dec 1882 The Bartlows have been
busy. They have interacted with the
Easts 16
times the Slavens 6
times, and the Holcombs 11 times, and the Howells, and
Powells once. Some of this is farm work related, or buying
or trading
produce. Mr. Holcomb appears to be the new local
postmaster. They went
to 6 picnics, to Election
day, one funeral, one meeting, one party, one fair,
one spelling bee, one
school meeting, one singing, one lecture, one dance,
one sale, one show, and
the races at Troy. They also got to the
fair. They
went to Grange nine
times, two apple peelings, and played cards once.
They get the Troy Free
Press now. They bought a croquet set and
played 12
times.
Five domino games are mentioned.
They made two short train trips,
and visited with the
usual assortment of family and friends.
They went to
church six times, mostly
in Hawk Point. Emma has gotten a sewing
machine.
13
Jan 1883 Emma Bartlow goes to Tom
Slavens for the evening.
14
Jan 1883 The Tom Slavens spend the day
with the Bartlows.
10
Feb 1883 Betty Holcomb spends the night
at the Bartlows.
19
Feb 1883 Emma Bartlow goes to Tom
Slavens.
2 Mar 1883
Aggie East spends the night with the Bartlows.
15
Mar 1883 The Bartlows go to a wedding at
the Slavens.
24
Apr 1883 Mary Welty Smith, and daughter Phoenia spend the day at the
Bartlows.
17
May 1883 Emma Bartlow, Lida and Mrs.
Slavens, go to Aunt Polly Smiths
visiting.
(Mary Welty Smith)
22
May 1883 Phoenia Smith and Aggie
East visit the Bartlows.
15
July 1883 Joe Powell visits the
Bartlows.
Summer
1883 Emma Bartlow is referring to
someone as Britt. He is helping with the
wheat and oats. It may be Britton Smith, playing with his new
reaper or
Mr. Britton.
20
July 1883 Nannie Smith is at the
Bartlows. This is not Nannie Ethyl, as
she will not
be born until 1884.
22
July 1883 The Bartlows are at Tom
Slavens.
31
Oct 1883 Aggie East is visiting the
Bartlows.
3
Nov 1883 Aggie East is at the Bartlows.
24
Nov 1883 W.S. and P. S. at the
Bartlows. Welty Smith, or some of
the Slavens?
30
Nov 1883 Aggie East is at the Bartlows.
9 Dec 1883
W. S. at Bartlows for dinner.
then off to meeting. Welty?
26
Dec 1883 The Bartlows and J. Easts go to Mrs. H. Holcombs party.
31
De 1883 The Bartlows have interacted
with the J. East family, and the Holcomb
family 15 times each, the
Slavens 13 times, the year. They have
been to
Grange 10 times. They went to 1 spelling bee, played croquet
twice, and
checkers once. They went to 1 funeral, 1 party, church 4
times, to Troy
for a show once, picnicking
twice, Races once, Reunion and barbecue once,
Fair 4 times, Dance once,
and 3 meetings for lectures. They split
up as usual,
and Emma went to Ohio by
train, and later her husband went to Iowa.
One has to stay with the
farm, when the other one travels.
6 Jan 1884
Aggie East is at the Bartlows.
30
Jan 1884 Columbus smith visits the
Bartlows.
24
Feb 1884 Aggie east is at the Bartlows.
24
Mar 1884 Last entry in Emma's diary for
1884. There have been 13 trips to town.
They have played
"Authors 3 times, Euchre once, checkers once, and gone
to 2 dances. They have gone to one meeting. they have seen the J. Easts
3 times, and the Howell's,
Holcombs, Slavens, and Powells once each.
1884 Britton moves family to Audrain Co.
Mo, N of Wellsville.
He will later move to
Laddonia, then Mexico, Mo. At some point
Columbus will also
move his family to Audrain Co.
31
Jan 1885 The Bartlows sell out and move
to Ohio.
1885
Smallpox hits the northern part of the county.
22
Oct 1886 Britton and family, come
down from Audrain Co. to visit.
Troy Free Press.
1887
Matthew Crouch, Lorean's
husband, leaves Lincoln County.
The Troy Free Press says
he's back in town after having gone
to the South West to buy a farm
from David Jewell. David Jewell
is Matthews third wife’s
brother. Matthew was
about to leave again for
his new home. Arthur Ealy
1887-1888 Several businesses in Troy burn down.
27
May 1891 Matthew Crouch, Lorean's husband marries for the fourth
time,
to Mary E. Miller, in
Butler County, Missouri.. The fate of
his
third wife has not been
determined.
5 Feb 1892
Mrs. William
Smith Sr, (Mary "Polly" Welty) dies while visiting
relatives in Audrain Co
Mo. The obituary says she was staying
with a daughter.
19
Nov 1892 Azariah is divorced.
18
Mar 1893 Azariah returns to Troy, to assign his share of the William Smith Sr
estate to Joseph
Rinaman, Artilla's husband
for a consideration of
$157.00. Azariah
declares himself unmarried. Abstract of
title to . the home place. When the estate is settled on 17 Oct 1898,
Joseph Rhinaman
receives $192.00 as Asia's share.
23
Feb 1893 Mrs. William Smith Jr dies,
Lincoln Co. Mo. The Claggetts, David
Waddy Smith, Jr's son and
others return to Kirwin, Kansas.
1893 A devastating financial depression
starts. Only one transcontinental
railroad survives.
16
Feb 1894 Artilla and husband buy
William Smith Sr home place. The original cabin
has been modified, or
will be, by adding on two ground floor rooms, a
dining room and a
kitchen, to the rear, with a bedroom above.
It has a
stairway in the SE
corner of the kitchen. The front bedroom
becomes a
room for the girls, the
rear bedroom is for the boys. There is a
cook stove
in the kitchen and a
potbellied stove in the living room.
28 Jun
1895 Professor W. F. Welty, formerly
principal of the Olney Institute,
at Olney, Lincoln Co.
Mo, currently President of the college at
Siloam Springs,
Arkansas, marries Emily Gaylord of Sandoval,
Ill. Troy Free Press. This is a possible distant relative we know
nothing about.
1896 Mrs. Leannah Smith Creech
dies. Lincoln Co. Mo.
She is buried at Old
Alexander.
15
Feb 1898 The battleship Maine is sunk in Havana harbor,
Cuba.
21
Apr 1898 The United States declares war
on Spain. No relatives are known
to be involved.
May 1898
Smallpox causes a quarantine of those exposed in Troy..
10
Dec 1898 The war with Spain is
over. The United States is ceded the
Philippines,
Puerto Rico, and
Guam. Cuba is made independent.
Dec 1899
The most disastrous stock decline in the history of the New
York Stock Exchange
hits. The effect on family members is
unknown.
June 1900
Martha Catherine Adams, Bethany's
daughter, her husband, Adolphus
Julian, and three
daughters, Mary C., Cora V., and Fannie E. are living
in Umatilla, Lake
County Florida. Fannie is dumb...Martha
has three
other daughters,
Lucinda B., Julia E, Alice V. and a son, John P.
1900 Azariah
is in Eagle Township, Eagle County, Colorado.
Census
Azariah remarries sometime after 1900. His wife appears to be
Dora E. Age 37 in 1900.
9 May 1902
Martha C. Adams, the daughter of Bethany
Smith
Applebury, receives
$93.70 from William Smith Sr's
estate. She is
living in Umatilla
Florida. They will later move to St
Petersburg,
Florida, then to Texas to
live with their son John proctor Adams,
then back to St
Petersburg where son John buys them a home.
18
June 1902 Mary Catherine Adams, William Smith Sr's great grand daughter,
Bethany's granddaughter, Martha's daughter, a
schoolteacher, marries
William T. Claggett, William Smith Sr's
great grandson, of the
Lincoln County Claggetts, and ends up in Kirwin
Kansas with the
Smith/Claggett colony out there.
1900 1926
Phoenia and her husband J.W. Slavens have a farm 1 mile SSW of
the home place where Artilla
lives, and ¼ mile NW of Welty's
farm.
Land maps.
Nov 1905
Scarlet Fever causes quarantine in Troy.
13
Nov 1905 Troy gets a electrical power
plant capable of providing power for lights
only, from dusk until
midnight.
8 May 1906
Lewis W. Cannon, Mary’s
husband dies in California.
14
July 1906 John Creech, Leannah's husband dies. Buried at Old Alexander.
1907 A scarlet fever epidemic hits Troy.
Fall 1907
Artilla and Joseph move to Troy.
Artilla's son William P. Rinaman,
moves his family into
the William Smith Sr log cabin, which
has doubled
in size.
10
Jan 1908 William Smith Jr dies Lincoln Co. Mo. Tombstone
24
Aug 1908 Britton Smith's 58th
birthday is celebrated at his farm. All
of his brothers
and sisters attend. Forty one family members have their photo
taken.
29
Nov 1908 Daniel Appleberry, Bethany's youngest son, writes his
nephew,
J. P. Adams, of Rodgers
Texas. Daniel is writing from Phillips,
Montana,
which is either in
Blaine, or Valley County. It will become
Phillips
County, in 1916, named
after the B. D. Phillips ranch. Daniel
says he is
camped out at his ranch,
and has been making some money from some
mines or land which he is
trying to get patented. He is talking
about his will
and it sounds like he's
unmarried and childless. In 1941 there
was a big
sheep ranch in Montana
named the Appleberry Ranch. Daniel would
have been over 90 by then,
so more research is needed. There is a
family tale that at some
point Daniel went back to England. The
date on
this letter may be 1918,
and it may say he is cooking at the home ranch.
1910 Cordelia and her family, husband, son
William G. and a daughter
Lulu, are living in
Laddonia, Audrain Co. Census
13
May 1910
Azariah is in Eagle Township, Eagle County, Colorado.
He is single and makes
mistakes about his age, where he was born,
and where his parents
were born in the census.
18
Nov 1911 Azariah files homestead claim at age 74, near Eagle,Eagle County,
Col.
21
Dec 1911 Azariah writes Artilla a letter from Eagle, Col. She has
written
and sent him some
pictures. He says his daughter and
grandson are
off to Alaska in the
spring.
10
Jan 1912 Cordelia Smith Powell
dies. She is buried in the Laddonia City
Cemetery.
24
Jan 1912 Azariah remarries. His wife
appears to be Dora E. Age 57 in
1920.
1920 Census. Eagle County, Colorado.
1913 Drusillia suffers a stroke, from
which she will not fully recover.
7 Mar 1916
Azariah's divorced wife dies,
in Alaska.
23
Dec 1916 Welty’s wife, Margaret
Rinaman Smith dies, Lincoln Co.
Apr 1917
The United States enters WW I.
Jun 1917
Welty goes to Laddonia to be with Drusilla. He will stay until
after the funeral.
18
Jun 1917 Drusilla Smith Slavens
dies at her home in Laddonia, Mo.
She had ten
children. Obituary There are eleven children in the family
photo.
20
Aug 1918 Artilla and her husband
celebrate their Golden wedding anniversary.
Of their seven children,
six attended, and of their fifteen grandchildren
fourteen attended. Welty, and Phoenia attend.
21
Nov 1918 Cordellia's husband
William F. Powell dies and is buried in the Laddonia.
City Cemetery. He has been living with his daughter, Mrs.
Lulu Moomaw
in Laddonia, for the
past year. His son, William G. Powell,
lives nearby.
Laddonia Herald, 28 Nov
1918.
A major flu epidemic
sweeps the county. The flu epidemic hits
Troy.
12
Dec 1919 Azariah dies at his ranch on Trail Gulch, near Eagle, Eagle Co.
Colorado.
26
Jan 1920 Aziriahs wife, Dora E. age 57, is at the ranch, and has taken in a
boarder,
John Kelly, who is 69
years old. 1920 census.
23
Nov 1920 A land patent for 160 acres is
granted Arariah A Smith in Eagle Co.
Colorado.
16
Sept 1923 Rinaman relatives from
Maryland are in Troy. The Welty Smith
family
are all invited to Welty's
house for a reunion.
27
Feb 1929 Drusilla’s husband,
Thomas H. Slavens dies, Laddonia, Mo.
Tombstone
1929 Britton moves from Laddonia, to
Mexico, Mo.
6 Aug 1929
Martha Caroline Appleberry, Bethany's
daughter dies in
St Petersburg
Florida. Her husband will die on 16 Nov.
1939 also
in St Petersburg.
Oct 1929
The stock market collapses, and the Great Depression begins.
1 Feb 1930
Britton Smith dies at his home in Mexico, Audrain Co. Mo.
Columbus is living
in Laddonia.
April
1930 Census Welty Smith, age 80. is living with
Dick Bennett, age 70 and his
daughter Mary E., age 55,
in Troy. Artillia, age 83, is
living with her
husband Joseph Rinaman,
age 82, in Troy. Phoenia, age 72,
is living with
her husband Joseph W.
Slavens, age 71, on their farm west of Troy, next to
Harvey Elbert Smith, Welty's
son.
1930 Some of the Claggett's from the
Smith/Claggett colony out in
Kirwin Kansas drive in to
visit Roland Smith, one of William Smith
Jr's
descendants, in Old
Monroe.
18
Oct 1930 Mrs. Britton Smith dies,
Montgomery Co Mo.
1931 A scarlet fever epidemic hits Troy. The Depression begins, affecting
all in the family. It lasts until 1941.
20
Nov 1932 Artilla’s husband Joseph
Rinaman dies. Lincoln Co.
5 Aug 1934
Welty Smith dies Lincoln Co. Mo.
Tombstone Columbus is
living in
Perry, Ralls County, Mo.
and Phoenia is living in Troy.
19
Nov 1935 Phoenia Smith Slavens
dies.
13
May 1936 Artilla Smith Rinaman
dies. Lincoln Co. Mo. Christopher
Columbus
Smith is listed
as living at Farber, in Audrain Co. in the obituary.
5 Nov 1936
Mrs. Christopher Columbus Smith dies. She and Columbus have been
living at her family
home near Perry, in Ralls County, for some time.
She is buried in Laddonia.
10
Sept 1937 A final family reunion is
held at the William Smith Sr home place.
The
William P. Rinaman
family were probably the hosts.
1 Sept 1938
Phoenia’s husband Joseph Slavens dies.
9 Dec 1938
The William Smith Sr home place
is sold to non-family.
2 Mar 1940
Christopher Columbus Smith dies, at Laddonia, Audrain Co. Mo.
The
data in this event log was acquired and shared by the following cousins: Mr. Kirby Ross, Mrs. Jean Strong, Mrs. Patsy
Brown Creech, Mrs. Julia Mozier Hechler, and Mrs. Carolyn Hooton. Mrs. Jean Strong and Mrs. Patsy Brown Creech
have traveled extensively to visit sites and gather material first hand. Mrs. Carolyn Hooton has
been
instrumental in the Smith family reunions that have brought parts of the family
together. Mrs. Audrey Kinion has aided
materially with the research. Mr. Kirby
Ross, with his vision of a comprehensive family history, has been the driving
force
behind
this work. This log was compiled by
Willard Smith Bacon,
120
Beechwood Circle, Manchester Tn 37355, 931 728 7973, willbacon@charter.net
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by Willard S. Bacon, 2000. All rights
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