The families of William Smith and his son Dr. Edward Smith

Notes from Sara Tunnicliff Gilchrist spells his name Schmidt, but Virginia Tunnicliff Soper says his name was Smitt or Schmitt. The census of 1880 lists Andrew Smith, aged 78, and reports that both his father and mother were born in Maryland. William and Rosannah lived near Baltimore, Maryland. In 1795, they migrated westward in a prairie schooner. The beds of the wagons were built like boats as it was necessary to ford streams, and they needed to keep their food, clothing, and furniture dry. The wagons carried all of their worldly goods. It is believed a large party migrated together from Maryland. This party consisted of the families of Smith, Green, McCreary, Hunter, and Bozman. Many of these families stayed in Brooke County, Virginia for a short time, and then continued onward into Ohio and places further west. William and Rosannah stayed in the Pierce's Run area of what is Brooke County, Virginia (now West Virginia). He established his home on what is now Genteel Ridge and in 1797, he and others "threw" together a log hut on Pierce's Run to be used for a school and religious purposes. Some years later, they built a Stone Chapel for school and church for use of the Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists. This was probably the first stone or brick school house and church built west of the Alleghenies. The families that had traveled together became neighbors in this area. Many of their children married one-another. These settlers were handy as carpenters and farmers. It was necessary for them to erect all buildings and supply all food. They were also religious people. This was demonstrated by their concern for the need for churches in the new area. A deed is recorded in the Brooke County Courthouse showing where William and Rosannah Smith, Edward Bozman (Rosannah's brother), and Thomas and Jane Newton deeded land for a church on Pierce's Run. (See accompanying notes on the Pierce's Run Church.) "Doddridge's Notes", which is book of notes on the history of the area written by Dr. Joseph Doddridge, states that William helped to build the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wellsburg. William and Rosannah are buried in Franklin Cemetery, near Wellsburg, WV. They had four children:

A. Sarah (Sally) B. Edward C. Andrew D. Catharine

Located in Franklin Cemetery, beside William and Rosannah, is the grave of Mary McConnell. She died July 23, 1869 and was 83 years old. We were led to believe this was a sister of William Smith. We also found in the Brooke County Courthouse that Mary McConnell was the widow of Joshua Lee, but we can't find any record of a Mr. McConnell. We found in a deed where she sold her farm as a life estate to Andrew Smith. He was to pay her $100.00 per year from which she was to pay the taxes. Andrew was also to "pay" her 500 rails a year plus spend $35.00 per year on improvements to the farm. Does anyone have any clue as to the connection between the Smiths and the Lees? We found other references that the families were connected, but cannot find the link!!

We found the Smith, Hunters, Greens, and McCrearys to be industrious, courageous, and religious citizens of the community in which they lived. We have also found these families to be true emigrants - mode of travel - time - roads did not deter them from moving to other areas of the country, or to return home for visits and the reunions. The members of the family today live in the United States from coast to coast and border to border.

We would like to thank all who were so generous in their help to us, for without this help we would not have what we have and this genealogy would not be what it is. We have been a long time compiling this, but the job kept getting bigger. This is only the beginning as a genealogy requires constant updating. We leave it to you to carry on, each in their own family. If you can give any dates, births, deaths, or marriages, or supply any other missing information, we would appreciate it.

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Pierce's Chapel, a quaint stone structure probably the first brick or stone church/schoolhouse built west of the Allegheny mountains, was built around 1798. It was given to the community by William. There is a deed of record in 1830.

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from Harrison County Wills, page 445

William Smith, Brooke Co., Va; date of will, August 20, 1846; date of probate, July 31, 1855; wife, name not given; children: Andrew, Catherine Hunter; legatees, John and Sally Estep; exec., Andrew Smith

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The LDS Genealogical files lists a William Smith and Rosannah Bozman getting married on January 28, 1895 in Baltimore County, MD. I question this since Sarah was born in 1787.

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taken from The Daily Herald, Wellsburg, W.Va. Aug. 6, 1935

History of Franklin Community

by Cornelius G. Reeves

In the surveying parties of the late 1780's and early 1790's that visited this part of western Virginia, was a young man named William Smith. (Rosalyn Gibbs's information says that he was a member of the Christopher Gist surveying party which surveyed "West Augusta" for the Washingtons, Lees, Fairfaxes, and others. These people proposed to establish the Fourteenth Colony, but which came to naught by the approaching storm of the Revolutionary War.) When he returned to Baltimore County he married Miss Rosannah Bozman. A daughter, Sarah was born to them in Maryland The family came to Brooke County and in the early fall of 1796, where, overtaken by storm, they found shelter in a cabin in a Sugar grove near Independence, PA. The stork paid a visit that night and a son was born. It is not known whether there was a physician or even a mid-wife. Pioneers were resourceful and husbands and fathers performed many duties then. The baby was Dr. Edward Smith in later years known for his ministrations in child birth. Two old buildings erected by the hands of William Smith are still standing on the farm, now occupied by Mr. A. Greenleaf standing on the hill above the Stone Chapel on Pierce's Run. They are a brick spring house and a log-clapboard building. The incident of the boy baby in the sugar grove cabin and the statement of Joseph F. Gist that his great grandfather settled on Genteel Ridge about the year 1795, fixes the first settlement in Franklin Community, with fair accuracy in the early nineties of the Eighteenth Century.

.....The second immigration into the county from the east began in 1795, or one year before the county was organized and named. Among those emigrants were Thomas Cook, Nathaniel Fleming, James Barrah, William McClane, Benjamine Reed, Rev. Joseph Doddridge and his brother Phillip Doddridge. It was during this second immigration that Franklin community was first settled.

Article taken from The Daily Herald, Wellsburg, WV. August 6, 1935

EARLY SETTLERS IN COUNTY 150 YEARS AGO

A country Life Conference was held at Franklin Church on April 10, 28, and 30 (no year given) under the direction of the county agricultural agent, E.G. Hibbs. The conference was largely attended and carefully selected program was conducted which included a very interesting paper by Corneilus G. Reeves, a history of Franklin Community, which is given in full to the readers of the Times as follows.

History of Franklin Community

by Cornelius G. Reeves

If you can go back with me in your imagination some 150 years and draw a mental picture of the country surrounding this church, you would see these hills and valleys one vast forest of most magnificent trees. The soil was the very richest because its resources had never been drawn upon.

Through this great forest might be seen the deer, the elk, the brown bear, the wild hog and great herds of buffalo, and at night might be heard the call of the panther and the scream of the wildcat.

And last, but by no means the least important, was the American Indian who had first claim upon this country by right of possession. It was fighting for this same right that later caused the settlers so much trouble.

Into this vast wilderness came a little band of travelers. They came on horseback; men, women, and children, carrying all their worldly possession with them. Why they left the eastern shore of Maryland, fought their way over the mountains, and came away out here, we do not know, but we do know that they were most noble men and women, and those of use who are their direct descendents are proud of the fact.

As this little company was making its way westward they stopped to rest by a spring of water which gushed out of the hillside.

Those of you who know the spring at the home of J.C. Gist, can understand how it must have appealed to those tired and thirsty travelers on that hot summer day. At any rate, one of their number, Cornelius H. Gist, said he was going no farther, that there he proposed to make his home.

The others located in the neighborhood, forming a colony whose descendents are still helping to make this community what it is.

One of the things which they brought with them was a devout Christian spirit. It was this spirit which let to the establishment of the Methodist Church in Franklin Community.

The first services were held somewhere near the state line, but later a log house was built near the lower corner of Franklin Cemetery. This house was used both for a school house until 1830, when Dr. Edward Smith donated ground. In regard to Dr. Smith, I will quote from sentiments expressed by Mr. M.L. Douglas:

"One man whom I think ought to figure in the history of this community is Dr.

Edward Smith, born in 1796, died in 1874. He had for years had the health of all this section of country to care for. Riding night and day, as often to the cabin as to the home of the rich -- never charging the poor. He literally gave his life for others."

This inscription may be seen on his tombstone:

"He was a Christian, an eminent physician, a philanthropist, energetic, and a friend to the poor."

Everybody loved Dr. Smith. And then last but not least, he was the grandfather of Judge Harry Hervey, and great, great uncle of our George Smith.

In 1832, a church was built on this ground and in 1854, this building proving too small, was torn down and a new church erected. This was the brick building which was destroyed by the Easter storm, March 30, 1902. Two years later this, the present Franklin Church was built.

Before the church was supplied with a regular pastor, services were conducted by traveling preachers, Circuit riders, as they were called.

(An explanation of the preachers was given) These earlier settlers lived in friendly relations with the Indians, but later as they realized their land were taken from them, they became hostile and many are the harrowing stories told of them. The settler lived in constant terror of these raids and it became necessary to build forts as a place of retreat. One of these was located near the campground, on the Mullholland farm. It served this whole section. (More information given). Following is a list of names who were the first to come to this land: Hervey, Gist, Smith, Bosman, Applegate, Ralston, Jamison, Rare, Amspoker, McAdoo, Wells, Marsh, Zogg, Churchman, Magee, Fowler, Glover, Hudson, McGuyre, Jones, Carman, Douglass, Herdner, Merryman, Scott, Carter, Cree, Miller, Buckley, Reeves, Green, Gregsby, Fisher, McConnell, George, Henderson, Hanna, Creacraft, McGee, Lee, Beall, Hinkson, and Clayton."

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Additional information from Nola Cronin, Wellsburg, WV.

This is an attempt to correlate the happenings of the descendants of William and Rosannah Smith.

Most of this information was compiled by Anna Wells Byhanna. In 1950, after working with John J. Davis on another genealogy, she decided to try collecting material. She gathered notes, letters, and articles from her mother's collection and with help from Adah Lauck Pilchard and Allie McAddo, she began. She assembled what she had into an outline form and asked others for help. She toured the area cemeteries, Brooke County and Ohio County Court House Records, the edition of the Brooke County Record published by Jacobs and Murphy in 1883, and put ads in newspapers in Iowa, Illinois, and Arizona asking for help in locating relatives of people known to have lived in those areas. There was a Great Smith Reunion held in 1888 at the home of Mary Ann "Aunt Moll" Hunter on McAdoo Ridge in Wellsburg. An account of this reunion was published in the local paper and included a listing of the family of Andrew and Jane Green Smith. This was a big help in approximating dates and birth orders.

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Will of William Smith:

In the name of God, Amen. I, William Smith of the County of Brooke in the State of Virginia, being of sound memory and understanding and calling to mind the uncertainty of life do make my last will and testament as follows to wit:

First: It is my will that my just debts, funeral expenses, and legacy herein after contained to be paid out of my personal estate.

Secondly: I bequeath to my son Andrew Smith the plantation in Brooke County whereon I now reside; also all the personal property I may have after my funeral expenses are paid.

Thirdly: I bequeath to John Estep and Sally his wife a tract or parcel of land in Harrison County in the State of Ohio being the North West quarter of Section No. 22 in Township No. 8 of Range No. 4.

Fourthly: I bequeath to my daughter Catharine Hunter, her heirs and assign a tract or parcel of land in the County of Harrison aforesaid known as the North East quarter of Section No. 22, Township No. 8, Range No. 4. And lastly I hereby constitute and appoint my said son Andrew Smith sole executor of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all wills by me hereafter made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 20th day of August 1846.

his

Signed: William X Smith

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Note: This will can be found in the Brooke County Court House, Wellsburg, WV

and a copy of this will can be found in Harrison County Court House, Cadiz, Ohio

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The following information was given by Rosalyn Gibbs. Her cousin Kathleen sent it to her.

William F. Smith, of Maryland, was a member of the Christopher Gist surveying party, which surveyed "West Augusta," a part of Western Virginia, beyond the Alleghenies, for the Washingtons, Lees, Fairfaxes, and others where they proposed to establish the Fourteenth Colony; but which came to naught by the approaching storm of the Revolutionary War. William F. Smith married Rosanna Bosman or Bozman, daughter of Edward Bozman of Maryland. In the spring of 1796, with his bride and father-in-law, he started for what is now Brooke County, W.Va., to establish a homestead. For one cause or another the party was delayed and did not arrive at Independence, Pa., at the edge of Brooke County until November. Fall had set in, the weather bad, and they sought shelter in a sugar camp shack near Independence. Rosanna's time had come and a son was born to her and William F. Smith in the sugar grove shack. The son was named Edward Smith, who married Catherine James, and is our grandfather. He was a physician, a minister and legislator serving several terms in the Virginia legislature in the 1840's. He gave to the Franklin Community, Booke County, a cemetery, school house and church and secured from the Va. legislature the franchise for the now Penn. Railroad from Wheeling to Pittsburgh. William F. Smith established his home on what is now Genteel Ridge, and in 1797, he and others "threw" together a log hut on Pierce's Run to be used for school and religious purposes. Some years later they built a Stone Chapel for school and church for use of Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists. This was probably the first stone or brick school house and church built west of the Alleghenies. The Richardson family lived in or near Independence, Pa., and that is how William (General) and Sam (Doctor) married Sarah and Rebecca. I do not know much of the Richardson family history. Now as to the Richardson branch. I thought I could (can't read what is written) Isaac, but am unable to find the data. It belonged to Mother. My memory, never very good, is not as trustworthy as it used to be. However, I feel certain that Uncle (Col. W.P.) Richardson was born at Independence, Pa., then Williamsburg, Pa. He was admitted to practice law at Wellsburg and did practice law there. Short Creek, Franklin, West Liberty, Independence, Pa., are all only a few miles apart and blend into each other frequently when tracing early events. West Liberty was the first county seat of Ohio County and I believe all the early records are now at the state university at Morgantown. The librarian would be more apt to give you information on that than the county clerk of Brooke County.

William Smith and Rosanna Bozman had two sons, Andrew and Edward, one daughter (her first name has left my memory). She married a man named Estep and became an early settler in Harrison County, Ohio. There are many Esteps in that county and most of them are her descendants.

Dr. Edward Smith was a Methodist minister of the Baltimore Conference before the Pittsburgh Conference was organized. Preaching was just an avocation. By profession he was a physician. I have known quite a number of persons who knew him, some of them he brought into the world. According to them he was a doctor of "some renown." He was a member of the legislature of old Virginia, riding to Richmond over trails on horseback. He secured the franchise, denied several times, for what is now the Wheeling-Pittsburgh branch of the Penn. Railroad. He gave to the community, a church, school house and cemetery, providing that there should be no charge for a burial lot. It is now Franklin cemetery and many of the older and more prominent persons in early Brook County are buried there. This is the inscription on the "little stone" above his resting place: "Born Jan. 17, 1796, Died March 3d, 1874. "Dr. Edward Smith, a minister, an eminent physician, a philanthropist, energetic and friend of the poor." Catherine James, wife of Dr. Edward Smith, daughter of Robert and Catherine James, died July 9, 1845, aged 48 years, 6 mos. 11 days. According to father, and he was 16 at her death, Aunt Kate and Aunt Emma, she was a "beautiful woman, with grace, charm and intelligence." Aunt Kate became the mother of the children. She was a brilliant woman and we all should reverence her memory for the sacrifice she made in being the mother of the family. Rebecca H. Smith was the daughter of Dr. Edward Smith.

Dr. Edward Smith, born Jan. 17, 1796; died March 3, 1874. Born in a sugar camp hut at Williamsburg, Pa., now Independence, Pa. His parents were on their way from eastern Maryland to what is now Brooke County, W.Va. when the stork overtook them and they found shelter in the sugar camp hut where the baby arrived. He died at Franklin, Va., now W.Va. Catherine (James) Smith, wife of Dr. Edward Smith, daughter of Robert James and Catherine (McClure or McLure) James, born Dec. 29, 1797 and died July 9, 1845.

Dr. Edward Smith, son of W. F. Smith and Rosannah (Bozman) Smith. Franklin is about three miles on the Washington Pike from Wellsburg. Dr. Smith gave the Franklin Community its first school house, church and school house are now fine and modern and the cemetery is well kept. (Additional information is given which we already have. I believe she is elderly and tends to repeat). All of the above are buried in Franklin Cemetery and their graves are marked. Edward Bozman is buried on the original William F. Smith farm in Brooke County.

>Pierce's Chapel is a quaint stone structure which is probably the first brick or stone church schoolhouse built west of the Allegheny mountains. The chapel was built around 1798. Given to community by William Smith in 1830, deed of record. Robert James died Nov. 30, 1831, aged 73 years; Catherine (McLure) James died March 7, 1842, aged 76 years, the parents of the wife of Dr. Edward Smith. Both are buried in the James Cemetery near Finleyville, Pa. They were probably born at Fort Pitt. The stone house and a stone church, which they built near Finleyville at about the close of the Revolutionary War, are standing and in use. Pictures of the house and church are under separate cover. The walls of the house are 24 inches thick and of the church 36 inches. It was also a fort against the Indians.

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from HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE; being Historical Collections of the counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia, 1879.

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from Historical Collections of Harrison County page 232

William Smith Brooke County, VA W1/2 22.8.4 July 30, 1812

Individual: Smith, William
County/State: Brooke Co., VA
Page #: 206
Year: 1840 U.S. Census

Individual: Smith, William
County/State: Brooke Co., VA
Page #: 676
Year: 1810 U. S. Census
Age ranges in household: 10102-1101000

Marriage records are in the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
Film # 0013693 or 001-3694

Individual: Smith, William
County/State: Brooke Co., VA
Page #: 676
Year: 1810
Age ranges in household: 10102-1101000

Edward Smith was a physician and was called affectionately "Dr. Eddie". He studied medicine under Dr. Joseph Doddridge in Wellsburg and later graduated from a medical school in Baltimore, MD in 1819. He practiced medicine in the panhandle of what is now West Virginia, the Independence, PA area, and Jefferson County in Ohio from 1819 to 1871. He also served as a delegate to the Virginia Legislature from Brooke County, Virginia and in 1867 served the West Virginia Legislature as a delegate. Dr. Eddie donated the land along Washington Pike (Wellsburg) for the Methodists to erect a church house. He also donated the logs to build it. Franklin Cemetery was a part of the land donated as it was the custom in those days to bury on church ground. This house proved too small so in 1854 the building was torn down and a larger one built. The second church house was blown down by an Easter storm on March 20, 1902. The congregation built a more substantial one across the road in 1904. This is the site of the present Franklin United Methodist Church. In this building there is a stained glass window dedicated to Dr. Edward and Andrew Smith with the inscription, "God loveth a cheerful giver." Edward and Catharine are buried in Franklin Cemetery. On the tombstone, Edward's wife's name is spelled Catharine, but in the courthouse where she signed to transfer deeds it is spelled Katherine. Named below are nine of the eleven children tradition says that Dr. Eddie and Catharine had. Franklin is about three miles east of Wellsburgh, WV, on Washington Pike.

A historical sketch of the donor of the ground who was a notable man is worthy of insertion here, for the history of the Franklin First Church near Wellsburg, W.Va. is the history of its people, and any history of Franklin Church would be incomplete without a record of his generosity and lifelong service to both Church and community. He was a fine Christian country doctor of a type that is fast passing. For many years he had the care of the health of a large section of this country. The territory over which he rode night and day as oft to the cabin of the poor as to the dwelling place of the rich man, never charging the poor. He literally gave his life for others. Everybody loved Dr. Smith. He is buried in the cemetery that he gave for others, and this inscription may be read on his monument: "Dr. Edward Smith born 1796, died 1874. He was a Christian, an eminent physician, a philanthropist, energetic, and a friend of the poor."

But it is not only for his ministrations as a physician that Dr. Smith is remembered. His public services as a law-maker and a benefactor in various other realms raise him high in the estimation of the residents of Franklin community. He served in the Virginia legislature a number of terms before the Civil War, and was especially active on the questions of transportation, free schools and slavery. He was also a member of the fourth legislature of West Virginia. The franchise for the railway from Pittsburgh to Steubenville was secured largely through his efforts. He was also an ordained minister of the Baltimore Conference. He gave to the Franklin Community, Brooke County, a cemetery, school house and church and. The last of the eight children of Dr. Smith and his wife, Catherine James Smith,- Mrs Emma Smith Wright - who was born in Brooke County on November 5th, 1833 died at her home in Iowa, Sunday, Feb. 7, 1932. Individual: Smith, Edward County/State: Brooke Co., VA Page #: 211 Year: 1840

From THE WEST VIRGINIA HERITAGE ENCYCLOPEDIA, VOL. 20

edited and published by Jim Comstock, Richmond, WV 1979.

Edward Smith (1796-1874) - a physician and legislator in Brooke Co. - born on family farm which his father had carved out of the forest. He had a limited elementary education but read widely and studied medicine in Baltimore. Afterwards he continued to reside on the farm and practice in the rural districts. Later he moved to Wellsburg and still later to West Liberty, where he stayed until his death. He was a member of the Virginia Legislature at the time of the Succession of that state from the Union. Afterwards he became a prominent Republican and leader in the new state of W.Va. He served in the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1867. He married Catherine James in 1820 and had several children, one of whom became a college president of Ohio.

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This issue of the Brooke County Historical Review will feature a much longer article then is usually found in these pages because the item touches upon many issues of not only historical interest but is also a most eloquent declamation of many issues that are still alive in the late 20th century.

Dr. Edward Smith represented Brooke County and Hancock County in the Virginia House of Delegates. His speech was occasioned by the fact that the people of Brooke and Hancock counties had petitioned the Virginia legislature for the right of way for a railroad connection between Pittsburgh and Steubenville. The petition was referred to a committee. The committee reported by resolution, "That is inexpedient to grant the prayer of the petitioners." Dr. Smith was trying to amend that resolution by this speech as reported in "The Daily Commercial Journal" published in Pittsburgh on August 18, 1852.

Pittsburgh & Steubenville Railroad

Right of Way Through Virginia

Remarks of Dr. Edward Smith, in the Virginia House of Delegates, May 27, 1852, on his motion to reverse the report of the Committee on Roads, declaring it inexpedient to grant the right of way for a Railroad, as prayed for by the citizens of Brooke and Hancock counties.

Mr. Speaker:

In making the motion which I have, to reverse the report of the Committee, by declaring that the prayer of the petitioners for a right of way for the construction of a Railroad through the territory of Virginia, "is expedient", I am aware of the difficulties which meet me at the threshold, and oppose the just demands of the people I represent...............(speech is twelve pages long).............Sir, if the spirit of the old apostle of liberty, Patrick Henry, were this evening on a visit to this law-making department of the government, and saw how we had been denied our just rights, and heard that we were told, as the representatives of Wheeling has told us, that if we should assume the responsibility of making a road upon our own land, with our own money, for our own good, for the public's and the nation's good, we should be visited with a legal process to restrain us - his spirit would waft its flight through the trackless either to the land of the departed patriots and announce to them that equal rights and equal privileges were no longer principles held sacred by their degenerate sons. Now, sir, I do not believe that such is the feeling of members of this General Assembly. I, therefore, call upon them as good republicans to rebuke this dark and barbarous spirit of selfishness, and to give equal rights and privileges to every portion of this commonwealth; and upon the present occasion, I ask them to "come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty."

Dr. Edward Smith

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Independence, PA was originally called Williamsburg, PA.

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Doctor Edward Smith served in the Virginia Legislature

representing Brooke County for the following terms:

The General Assembly of Virginia
House of Delegates
January 12 - June 7, 1852
November 22, 1852 - April 11, 1853
December 5, 1853 - March 4, 1854
December 7, 1857 - April 8, 1858

The General Assembly of West Virginia
House of Delegates
1867

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The following papers can be found in the Library of Congress, Washington, DC

taken from the Wellsburg Gazette, Saturday, July 20, 1822; Vol. VI, No. 39

A list of letters remaining in the post office, Wellsburg, Va., 30 June, 1822

Thomas Smith, Esq., Smith, Edward, Dr.; Elizabeth Smith.

taken from the Wellsburg Gazette, October 20, 1821: A list of letters remaining in the post office, Wellsburg, Va., 20 October, 1821: Elizabeth Smith, Joseph Smith.

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from: History of The Upper Ohio Valley with Family History & Biographical Sketches, Vol. 1 Madison, Wis., 1890. Brant & Fuller

Edward Smith was born January 17, 1796, on the Smith farm about four miles from Wellsburg, W.Va. His early life was spent on the farm. He commenced attending the academy in Wellsburg when sixteen years of age. He afterward studied medicine under Dr. Joseph Doddridge, of Wellsburg, and graduated at a medical college in Baltimore in 1819. He married Catherine James in December, 1820. He commenced the practice of medicine in 1819, and continued in active practice until his death, which occured in March, 1874. Part of his life he was located in Wellsburg, and later in West Liberty. His field of practice embraced Brooke, Hancock, and Ohio counties, in West Virginia, parts of Washington county, Penn., and Jefferson county, Ohio. He represented Brooke county in the Virginia legislature as a member of the house of delagates, and also served in the same capacity in the legislature of West Virginia in 1867. He died at West Liberty, W. Va.

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from: Sandra Kennedy

1850 Brooke County, VA census, 4th District, p. 557, dwelling #773, family #802 (enumerated next door to their father, but as a separate household);

William Smith, 24, farmer, born PA
Robert Smith, 21, student, born VA
Rebecca Smith, 18, born VA
Amy Smith, 16, born VA
Ebenezer Smith, 14, born VA
Frances Smith, 11 born VA

This gives the name of one of Edward and Catharine's children that we didn't know before; that is Amy. Based on this data, what I already had, and the information you provided, I put the birth order as follows.

Kate, Sarah, Willliam, Nancy, Robert, Rebecca, Emma, Amy, Ebenezer, Frances. By the way, Edward had eleven slaves in 1840, per the Census.

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from History of Washington County from its first settlement to the Present Time; by Alfred Creigh, LL. D. 1871. page 19 (book found in the Wheeling Library, genealogy room)

Rev. Dr. Smith says: The first court for the county of Ohio was held at Black's Cabin. There is every reason to believe that was the first civil court held in the valley of the Mississippi. On the 7th of April, 1777, the court ordered a court-house and jail be erected. Teh first attorneys admitted to practise in the court were Philip Pendleton and George Brent, on the 2nd of November 177?. Mr. Pendleton was appointed the commonwealth's attorney. In a work by the Rev. Joseph Smith, D.D/., entitled "Old Redstone," which contains historical sketches of Western Presbyterianism - its early ministers, its perilous times, and its first records, find that the Presbytery of Redstone met on the 25th of October 1782, at Dunlap Creek, and one minister was appointed as a su? at Ohio court-hhouse. This place, says the Rev. Dr. Smith, was some miles west of the present town of Washington, and was a seat of justice under the government of Virginia, as all Washington County, together with Fayette and Greene and a large portion of Allegheny and Westmoreland counties was claimed by that State and considered a part of Augusta County, Virginia. The records whow no other appointment for a supply at this place.

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The 1850 US Census, Brooke County, Virginia lists the following in the same household.

Edward Smith, age 54, M.D., born in VA
Elizabeth Smith, age 49, born in VA
Samuel Kelly, age 22, student born in VA
Margaret Quinn, age 22, born in PA
William Quinn, age 3, born in PA
William Smith, age 24, farmer, born in PA
Robert Smith, age 21, student, born in VA
Rebecca Smith, age 18
Amy Smith, age 16
Ebeneser Smith, age 14
Francis Smith, female, age 11

all born in Virginia

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Edward is listed in the 1850 U.S. Census, Virginia, Brooke County, Districk 3

Edward Smith, age 54, MD. married to Elizabeth Smith, age 49,