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SMITH |
My line:
William Smith (ca. 1723-1751) m. Letitia Hancock
James Smith (1748-1807) m. Jane Ross (1752-1828)
Catharine Smith (1798-1875) m. Moses Stone (ca. 1795-1844)
Regina Minerva Stone (1824-1894) m. James W. Tracy (1819-1896)
Catharine L. Tracy (1845-1933) m. Plato Durham (1840-1875)
Plato Tracy Durham (1873-1930) m. Lucy Cole (1882-1958)
Lucy Cole Durham (b. 1925) m. Roscoe Lee
Strickland, Jr. (1917-1997)
Roscoe Lee Strickland III (b. 1952) --yours
truly
William Smith's will was
probated in Fairfax County, Virginia, on September 24, 1751. It named his wife
Letitia and sons James, Hancock, and William. Letitia was named executrix, and
witnesses were Hugh Thomas, William Moon, and James Turley ("Abstracts of Wills
and Inventories, Fairfax County, Virginia, 1742-1801," by J. Estelle Stewart
King).
On March 19, 1773, Hancock Smith and William Smith, both of Berkley County,
South Carolina, appointed their brother, James Smith of Orange County, North
Carolina, "attorney in fact to take all steps necessary for the dorking of the
Intail of a tract in the county of Fairfax, Colony of Virginia, left us by our
father William Smith" (Miscellaneous Records, Vol. PP, pages 501-502, South
Carolina Archives).
The following was written by
Catherine Leonora Tracy Durham Dixon in a letter dated November 13, 1902, to her
son, Robert Lee Durham:
"My mother's grandfather was Capt. James Smith (I do not know why he bore the
'Capt.'). He was born in Virginia in 1748--his home being near the place where
the battle of Bull Run was fought in the late war. He married Jane Ross, a
pretty girl of eighteen and native of Orange Co. this state, in August, 1870. I
think they moved to S.C. soon after their marriage. His family objected to his
marrying Miss Ross, as they did not think her family quite as good as
theirs--they were very aristocratic. Perhaps that was the reason our
great-grandfather moved from Va. to S.C. His mother was Letitia Hancock, and he
named two of his children for her, his second daughter being 'Letitia Hancock,'
and his fourth son 'Hancock'--there were twelve children, five sons and seven
daughters, two of them (a son & daughter) died in childbirth. The names of the
sons: William Henry, born in 1771, died in 1773; William Ross, born in 1773,
died in 1818; James, Jr., born in 1782, died in 1827; my grandmother, Catharine
Smith, was the youngest child, born in 1798, and was only nine years old when
her father died (1807); this, I suppose, accounts for our not having more
definite record of the family."
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