Wyatt
Smith, my 3rd great grandfather, [1809 LA – 1894 MS] married Euseba
Fortenberry [1809 SC – 1878 MS]. Wyatt
& Euseba “blazed the trail, built the
stockade a quarter mile east of the present Silver Springs Church. Besides rearing eight children of their own,
they proved their love for children by bringing up several orphan children, and
counted them their own."[1]
They are buried in the Wyatt smith Cemetery in Pike Co., MS.[2]
Sometimes
a search comes together easily, perhaps to compensate us for all the other
times when every avenue turns into a muddy path. I have been able to find Wyatt
in several US Census reports.
1840 Pike, MS Wyatt
Smith; 2 adults; 4 children; 25 slaves
1850 Pike, MS Wyatt
Smith, 41, farmer; Sibby; 7 children, all b in MS
1860 Pike, MS Wyatt
Smith, Holmesville, 50; Euseba; 5 children; a son next door
1860 Pike, MS Slave
Schedule, p 51. Wyatt Smith with 10 slaves & 2 slave houses
1870 Pike, MS Wyatt
Smith, Osyka, 61, Euseba; 2 children, Adolphus & Walter
1880 Pike, MS Wyatt
Smith, 69, living with his son, Adolphus & family.
1900 Pike, MS Adolphus
Smith, dentist, in Magnolia with wife & 6 children
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| 1860 Us Census, MS, Pike; Wyatt Smith family |
May
all your census searches be successful.
I've found that my husband's family is much easier to research than my own. His line arrived, stayed put and didn't move around, weren't plagued by misspellings of their last name, managed to get enumerated on time every time. I count it a major achievement to see a tight chronology of a family listed in my database.
ReplyDeleteWendy, I do love it when a family stays put. It makes is much easier to research. They are more the exception than the rule, however.
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