Re: Re; Nancy Matney in Missouri
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Re: Re; Nancy Matney in Missouri
bill smith 5/05/02
Hello, Bill, and others:
First of all, the Thomas Smith who married Nancy Ann Matney, d/o of Uriah Matney and Nancy Ann David Matney, was divorced from Nancy Ann in Marshfield, Webster County, MO, in April, 1860.
By the time that the census was taken in Carroll County, AR, in 1860, Thomas Smith was married again to a young woman named Sarah ?, born, MO, married within the year according to the 1860 Carroll County, AR, census.It appears that they were living back in the same place where the Matney's had lived prior to their moving to Webster County, MO.Living next to Thomas Smith and his new bride, Sarah, in 1860 was an older woman by the name of Isabel Smith, born VA.I suspect that Isabel was Thomas Smith's mother, but I have no proof of that.I do not know Thomas Smith's father's name, but I suspect that it was William or Jordan--perhaps both--but I don't have any proof of that either.Since it was the naming convention of the day to name the firstborn son after the father's father, it would lead me to believe that Thomas Smith's father was probably named William and/or Jordan.However, I have no way of knowing whether or not Thomas and Nancy followed that naming convention in the naming of their firstborn (and only) son.
According to oral family tradition, Thomas Smith was the leader of a Union Army Home Guard unit during the Civil War and that he was killed early in that War.Again, I have no proof of that.I recently ordered several books from AR Research on Union units in the CW.I found several Thomas Smith's, but none of them was born in IN, so I wasn't able to identify any of them as being my gr gr grandfather Smith.Both Thomas Smith and Nancy Ann Matney were born in IN according to census records.Uriah Matney died in IN prior to the Matney's migration to AR.Uriah had a brother named Stephen Matney.After Stephen Matney's wife's death, he married his sister-in-law, Nancy Ann David Matney.
Thomas Smith and Nancy Ann Matney Smith were two of my gr gr grandparents through their daughter, Mahulda "Hulda" Emmeline Smith, who married 1) Albert Hamilton Low; 2) James Monroe Strong, Jr.Hulda died in Ozark County, MO, in 1912 of typhoid fever and is buried in an unmarked grave at Patrick Cemetery, Ozark County, MO.Hulda was William Jordan Smith's only full sibling.They had a half-brother by the name of George Washington Green, the only descendant of George Green and Nancy Ann Matney Smith who lived to adulthood.George Washington Green died very young from pneumonia, leaving a young widow and four very young children.He married Nancy Jane Strong, a sister to James Monroe Strong, Jr., both children of James Monroe Strong, Sr., and his first wife, Rutha Jane Upton.James M. Strong, Sr., married Mrs. Sarah Davis Isom (Isham?) as his second wife.She was a sister to Nancy Elizabeth Davis, the first wife of William Jordan Smith--and the mother of all of his children.Nancy Jane Strong Green married 2) William "Bill" Satterfield, a brother to Nancy Jane Strong Green's sister-in-law, Rebecca Satterfield Strong, wife of Nancy Jane's brother, William Taylor Strong.Rebecca Satterfield was my great uncle Taylor's second wife.
I hope that you find this information interesting as well as helpful.
Ginny
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