[984]
Not with husband in 1850 Census.
Could this be Rosemary Burrows?? orphaned children living with John
B. Cox and his wife..Lucy Burrows 26 MO. Lucy from Perry co.,MO.
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_John MCELRAITH _____|
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|--John C MCELRAITH
| (1831 - ....)
| _Archibald MCCORKLE _+
| | (1754 - 1844) m 1776
|_Jane MCCORKLE ______|
(1798 - 1865) |
|_Joanna WHITE _______+
(1755 - 1805) m 1776
_John OLIPHANT ______+
| (1759 - 1836) m 1794
_Fidelio Hughes OLIPHANT _|
| (1800 - ....) m 1821 |
| |_Sarah MCGINNIS _____+
| (1778 - 1842) m 1794
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|--Sallie A. OLIPHANT
| (1838 - ....)
| _Samuel DUNCAN ______+
| | (1778 - 1852) m 1800
|_Jane Creigh DUNCAN ______|
(1801 - 1875) m 1821 |
|_Elizabeth CREIGH ___+
(1779 - 1829) m 1800
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_Jens PETERSEN ______|
| (1837 - ....) m 1880|
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|--Lena PETERSEN
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|_Martha ENGEL _______|
m 1880 |
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[328] Departed Hamburg, Germany on 21 February, 1883 for New York City, NewYork on the S.S. Suevia. The ship arrived in New York on 10 March1883.
_John POMEROY _______
| (1769 - 1818) m 1794
_Joseph POMEROY ______|
| (1804 - 1874) m 1847 |
| |_Elizabeth NEVIN ____+
| (1771 - 1826) m 1794
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|--Samuel Crawford POMEROY
| (1851 - 1916)
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|_Anna Black CRAWFORD _|
(.... - 1855) m 1847 |
|_____________________
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_Abraham SMITH ______|
| (1786 - 1864) |
| |________________________
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|--Robert Washington SMITH
| (1814 - 1851)
| _Clisby COBB ___________+
| | (1748 - 1815) m 1771
|_Rhoda COBB _________|
(1790 - ....) |
|_Margaret Halset YOUNG _+
(1746 - ....) m 1771
[736]
SMITH, ROBERT W. (1814-1851). Robert W. Smith, Indian fighter andsoldier at the battle of San Jacinto,qv was born in North Carolina onDecember 9, 1814, and came to Texas in 1836. He enlisted in the Texasarmy on March 6, 1836, served as a first lieutenant in Capt. Hayden S.Arnold'sqv company at San Jacinto, was discharged on June 6, 1838, andlater served as a captain in the Cherokee War (1839). Smith iscredited with firing the shot that killed Chief Bowlqv at the battleof the Neches;qv Bowl, according to some sources, was responsible forthe death of Smith's father-in-law. Smith took Bowl's sword, a gift tothe chief from Sam Houston,qv and presented it to the Masonic lodge atHenderson. The sword was lent to Col. James H. Jonesqv during theCivil War,qv returned to the Masonic lodge, and finally presented in1890 to the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. During theRegulator-Moderator Warqv Smith was a captain in the company of Gen.James Smith,qv and in 1845 he became the first sheriff of Rusk County.Smith married Mary Jane Watkins in 1837; they had four children. Hedied in 1851 and was buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Van ZandtCounty, on land donated by him for church and cemetery purposes.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mary Ann Broome, "Captain Robert W. Smith," JuniorHistorian, September 1948. Sam Houston Dixon and Louis Wiltz Kemp, TheHeroes of San Jacinto (Houston: Anson Jones, 1932). Vertical Files,Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
[740] 6 miles West of Henderson, TX.
[737] Buried Pleasant Hill Cemetery, seven miles west of Henderson.
[738] Entrance Certificate 1835. First Class Headright #78.
[739]
Was a 1st Lieutenant in the Infantry of the Nacogdoches Volunteers.Was at the Battle of San Jacinto, April 21, 1836. Killed Chief Bowlesin the Cherokee War on July 16, 1839 at the Neches River near Athens.
Listed as:
1st Lt. in the 1st Company, 2nd Regiment Texas Volunteers., SanJacinto List under Col. Sidney Sherman Command, August 21, 1836.
1st Lt. Company of Nacogdoches Volunteers, "Spring and Summer of1836", Enlistment from March 6, 1836 after May 21, 1836 under CaptHayden Arnold.