Stephen's Smith Family - Ancestors, Descendants and Cousins

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Samuel Coad

1880 Census-Dallas, Polk Co. OR p. 474 Household 157
1900 Census-Dallas, Polk Co. OR (ED 173 SH 13)

Hester Ann Smith

BIOGRAPHY: Pioneer Woman Dies at Age 104 by J.D.Dunham
    Mrs. Hester (Dollie) Hughes, widow of James Fergusen Hughes, died Friday, June 8, at the age of 104 in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sophia dodson, Raytown. She was born January 14, 1869, approximately 4-1/2 miles northeast of osborn at the farm now owned by Robert McDonough.
    Her parents were Thompson G. and Margaret (Parrott) Smith. she is survived by her daughter; a stepson, ralph M. Hughes, Pasadena, CA; three grandchildren, nine great grandchildren and two great, great grandchildren.
    Her father died when she was nine years of age and at that time the family moved into Osborn. In 1912 she became the wife of James F. Hughes, a grain dealer who operated the old Pixlee Mill and grain elevator located west of the highway in Osborn. He died in 1933.
    Mrs. Hughes was the oldest patient served in the Visiting Nurses Association's 80 year history in greater Kansas City.
    Funeral servies were Sunday afternoon at Hinton Chapel, Raytown, and graveside services were Monday afternoon at 2:00 at the Osborn evergreen Cemetery.
    Mrs. Hughes was a descendant of the first people to come to western Missouri and also the Territory before it was admitted to the union as a state.
Her great grandfather, Anderson Smith, came with his family into DeKalb county, locating on Grindstone Creek, north of Cameron, in 1833.
   He was listed in the 5th Federal Census (1830) as a resident of Clay County with a wife and nine children. clay County embraces an area at that time the width of the present county extending to the north boundary of the state.
    At the time counties became organized as governing bodies, families became active in the political activites of the settlement. Her great, great uncle, thompson smith was the first sheriff of Clinton county in 1833. the first represetative of Clinton county in the State Assembly in 1836 and also the first representative of DeKalb county in 1846, one year following its organization.
    Her grandfather, Elias Parrott, was a judge of the first court of dekalb County in 1845, and her father as a judge of the same court in 1874 and 1880. Her grandfather, John Smith, was married to Unity gilliam in clay County, August 6, 1829.
    In 1818 and 1819 the land in the territory of Missouri, including the area of what now is Ray and Clay county was opened for entry.
    There was no permanent settlement in what is now Clay county prior to 1819. In that year the Gilliam families and others came to the present vicinity of Liberty. However, the Gilliams never became established as permanent settlers in Missouri.
    Several held county offices. Cornelius Gilliam was sheriff of Clay county in 1830 and 1842. Twenty one years after reaching Missouri, the country was becoming crowded to the Gilliams as Clay county had a population of 8,300, Jackson county 7,600, Ray County 6,500, Buchanan County 6,200, Clinton County 2,700, and Platte County 8,900.
    Many people had moved into Platte County by 1840, after titles t the land held by the Fox, Sac and Iowa Indians had been extinguished by the Federal Government in 1836-7. In 1844, Cornelius Gilliam headed a wagon train to the Oregon Territory where seven gilliam families settled on Donated Land Claims.
    Cornelius Gilliam was dead four years later as he left his Claim to fight the Cayuse Indians. In his liftime of 50 years he walked, and rode a horse from north Carolina to Tennessee, to Missouri, and had driven oxen and a wagon the length of the Oregon Trail.
    The people who came to the frontiers of a new land were strong and hardy people, capable of enduring all the hardships without fear. The weak remained behind and the ones who settled were courageous, adventurous, some restless and impatient people.
    They brought the axe to build a home where they settled and a rifle to provide and protect. The ancestors of Hester smith were frontier people.

Josiah Conlee

BIOGRAPHY: Occupation-Farmer, Judge.
1804-Warren Co.
1816-Madison Co. IL
1836-Jo Davis Co. IL
1840 Census-Jo Davis Co. IL
1850 Census-Jo Davis Co. IL

Pricilla Crawford

1817-To Illinois with Thompson Smith.

BIRTH: Nancy Roberts-1218 Marie Ann Blvd. Panama City FL 32401.
Husband descends. Nancy has Priscilla born in Grant Co. KY.