Name |
Henry Clay Smith |
Birth |
04 Feb 1831 |
Vincennes, Indiana |
Gender |
Male |
Census |
13 Jul 1870 |
Hillebrandt Bayou, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas |
1870 13 July
Hillebrandt Bayou, Beaumont, Texas
residence 324
Smith, Clay 1831 Indiana
Rachel 32 Louisiana
Muletta 7 1863 Lousiana
Ann 1865 Louisiana
Lucinda 3 1867 Texas
Mary 5/12 1870 (Feb) Texas
residence 325
Martha (Martha Jane Hart) Smith 68 1802 Ohio
Dalem? (Solon James) Smith 45 1824 Indiana farmer
Jane Smith 40 1830 Louisiana
Martha Smith 19 1851 Louisiana
Nay Smith 17 1853 Louisiana
Rufus Smith 14 1856 Louisiana
Maya (Maja Argen) Smith 12 1858 Texas (m Geo willis stockholm)
Elector Smith 10 1860 Texas
Margret Smith 8 1862 Texas
Atwood Smith 6 1864 Texas
Merta Smith 3 1867 Texas
Nathan Smith 9/12 (Nov) 1869 Texas
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Census |
17 Jun 1880 |
Hardin Co (District 29), Texas |
- H. C. Smith 49 1831 farmer Indiana Vermont Ohio
Rachel E. Smith 37 11843 TX ENG LA
Myrtella Smith 17 1863
Ann E. Smith 15 1865
Lula L. Smith 13 1867
Mary A. Smith 10 1870
Adair E. Smith 8 1872
Henry C. Smith 7 1873
Lilly M. Smith 5 1875
Nathan C. Smith 1 1879
Walter Singleterry 38 1842 div boarder lumbermanSC SC SC
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Census |
1900 |
Dona Ana, New Mexico Territory |
- residence 208/222, Roberts, Lucy, head, May 1871, age 29,
widowed, one child, one living, TX IN TX
Robert, son, May 1891 age 9, NM TX TX
Smith, Henry, father, Feb 1840, age 60, widowed,
IN, VT,OH
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Death |
19 Aug 1920 |
Las Cruces, Dona Ana Co, New Mexico |
Burial |
Odd Fellows Cem, Las Cruces, Dona Ana Co, New Mexico |
Notes |
- 1880 census - p 180
Arthur Magill was the chief engineer aboard the T. J. Smith, a Neches River mail packet built in 1857 at Bevilport, Jasper County, and owned by Capt. Henry Clay Smith of Orange. In 1858, while riding the 100-foot steamer to Sabine, Henry R. Green, a Beaumont correspondent of Galveston Weekly News, wrote that the T. J. Smith ran "like lightning with a thunderbolt after it."5 Green also wrote that "Magill is scientific in his line, very careful, and experienced." Nevertheless, the engineer was killed on November 2, 1859, when the vessel's boiler exploded. The T. J. Smith was later repaired and in 1862 was confiscated by the Confederate States government when its owner, H. C. Smith, defected to the Federal forces. Probate records reveal that Kate Magill soon sued Capt. Smith to collect her dead husband's wages. This was her first encounter in court with the man she would grow to loathe.6
(snip)
On September 8, 1863, the war returned to Sabine Pass in full measure. Unknown to Kate at the time, her old adversary, Capt. Henry Clay Smith was the Confederate defector to the North who piloted the ill-fated U. S. gunboat Sachem up the Louisiana channel. The gunboat was one of two which soon bowed to the gunners of Fort Griffin, and ironically, Capt. Smith was the only one aboard who escaped.14
end notes:
5 "Letter from Hal," Galveston WEEKLY NEWS, Sept. 12, 1858, as reprinted in "Extracts from W. T. Block (ed.) "The Writings of Henry R. Green," TEXAS GULF HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, X (Nov., 1975), p. 67.
6 File 110, Estate of Arthur McGill, Probate Records, Jefferson County Archives.
14 "Memoirs of Lt. Joseph Chasteen," Confederate Veterans Column, Galveston DAILY NEWS, Sept. 3, 1899.
Catherine-Magill-Dorman-Confed-Herone-Sabine-Pass.htm
http://www.texasescapes.com/WTBlock/Catherine-Magill-Dorman-Confederate-Heroine-of-Sabine-Pass-Texas.htm
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In 1859, northbound travelers could utilize a weekly water and land connection to reach San Augustine. The mail packets Mary Falvey and T. f. Smith carried Sabine and Beaumont passengers to Wiess Bluff, a Jasper County river port sixteen miles north of Beaumont, where Taylor?s stage route from San Augustine ended.
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The mail packet T. J. Smith, built at Town Bluff in 1857, belonged to Henry Clay Smith and Henry B. Force of Orange. The steamer carried mail and cotton on the Neches until the Civil War began. When Captain Smith defected to the Union navy in 1862, his steamboat was confiscated by the Confederates and was being used to ferry troops on the Calcasieu River in 1863.118
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txjeffer/history/Block/Jefferson_County_History/Chapter07.htm
JeffCo-History-Ch-07-Block(transportation).htm
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Person ID |
I557 |
Roots |
Last Modified |
9 Apr 2011 |
Family |
Rachel E. Court, b. 31 Jan 1837, Louisiana d. 1892, Los Cruses, Dona Ana, New Mexico (Age 54 years) |
Marriage |
18 Mar 1860 |
Orange Co, Texas [1] |
- Name: Rachel E. Court
Marriage Date: 18 Mar 1860
Spouse: H. C. Smith
Marriage County: Orange
Marriage State: Texas
Source: Texas Marriages, 1814-1909
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Children |
| 1. Myrtella Smith, b. 1863, Louisiana d. Aft 1880, of, Hardin Co, Texas (Age 18 years) |
| 2. Ann E. Smith, b. 1865, Louisiana d. Aft 1870, of, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas (Age 6 years) |
+ | 3. Lucinda L. "Lula" Smith, b. 1867, Hillebrandt Bayou, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas d. 10 Apr 1944, Los Cruses, Dona Ana, New Mexico (Age 77 years) |
| 4. Mary A. Smith, b. Feb 1870, Hillebrandt Bayou, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas d. Aft 1880, of, Hardin Co, Texas (Age ~ 10 years) |
| 5. Henry C. Smith, b. 1873, Jefferson Co, Texas d. Aft 1880, of, Hardin Co, Texas (Age 8 years) |
| 6. Lilly M. Smith, b. 5 1875, Jefferson or Hardin Co, Texas d. Aft 1880, of, Hardin Co, Texas (Age 5 years) |
+ | 7. Nathan C. Smith, b. 1879, Hardin Co, Texas d. Aft 1930, of, Las Palomas, Sierra Co, New Mexico (Age 52 years) |
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Family ID |
F252 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
22 Apr 2011 |