GEORGE DAVIDSON SMITH FAMILY - 1917
The George Davidson Smith Family at
Parsley
Crossing 1917
George D. Smith and second wife Laura Baker Smith and all
10 of his living children (by his first wife Mary Mandana Handy Smith
who died in 1900) and their families. One daughter Mary Pansy died at
age 2, and Eula a twin to Eunice died at age 7 mo. [George
Davidson Smith married Laura Baker on 10 Sept., 1903, Hamilton County
Marriage Record Bk. 4, p. 124]
George and Laura in the middle with the children all
around them. Starting at the top left going clockwise:
Tom and Annie (Neal) Smith, children Winnie and Lota
Clyde
John and Ethel (Smith) Koen, daughter Ruth
Jesse and Merle (Keller) Smith, daughter Mildred
Walter and Myrtle (Smith) West, daughter Pauline
Eunice Smith (youngest child age 17)
Walter and Ida (Smith) Lawson, children Glynn and Clarice
Charlie and Willie (Sexton) Smith, children Estelle,
Leora, William and Lena
Monroe and Lillian (Smith) Harrison, children 2
oldest of 5
Oscar and Florence (Edwards) Smith, children Troy, Otis
and T.J.
Jim and Mattie (Ashton) Smith, children Orville and Macel
George Smith served in the Civil War and I have his
Soldiers Application for a Pension, and also Laura's
Widows Application For a Pension. He was living at Evant at the
time he applied so it says P.0. Evant, Coryell County on his and
Hamilton on Laura's. They both died in Hamilton and are buried at
Live Oak.
"I don't know why they
dressed up so to go to Parsley Crossing but people used to do that I
suppose. A lot of Sundays when I was growing up in Hamilton we
went to Live Oak Cemetery and Parsley Crossing after church and
Sunday dinner. It was always important to my grandparents that
the family graves at Live Oak were kept nice. I can remember
when all the Smith graves had shells on them. Annie Smith
was the first secretary of the Live
Oak Cemetery Association when it was organized May 1, 1927.
She remained in that position for 20-30 years.
George
Smith lost his right arm in a saw mill accident as a young man
not long after the Civil War. He raised all those children
after that and they said his house caught fire once and he got on
the roof and put it out.
Walter
and Myrtle (Smith) West, Monroe and Lillian (Smith) Harrison, Jim
and Mattie (Ashton) Smith, and Eunice Smith who later married
Charles Crowley all moved to west Texas. The other six
children remained in the area. My grandfather Tom Smith tried
farming but didn't like it. He and Annie moved to Hamilton
where Tom started working in the McKinley-Corrigan Store.
Ida's
husband Walter Lawson died when they had the big flu epidemic and
left her with two young girls. She later married Martin
Stifflemire and they had one daughter Nadine. Aunt
Ida lived the longest dying in 1991 at age 96."
Shared by Norene (Brian) Walls
