Joseph Smart

Other Events:

• Census: 1820, Monroe Co., Indiana
• Census: 1830, Morgan Co., Indiana
• Census: 1840, Benton Twp., Taney, Missouri
• Census: 1850, Dist. 102, Wright, Missouri
• Occupation: 1850, Dist. 102, Wright, Missouri; Farmer
• Occupation: 1857, Lampasas Co., Texas; Stock raiser; owned twelve horses and twenty cattle
• Occupation: 1858, Lampasas Co., Texas; Stock raiser (semi-retired?); owned twelve horses
• Residence: 1820, Monroe Co., Indiana; With two boys and a girl under age 10, a girl age 10 to 15 and a woman age 26 to 44
• Residence: 1830, Morgan Co., Indiana; With two boys age 5 to 9, two boys age 10 to 14 and a woman age 40 to 49
• Residence: 1840, Benton Twp., Taney, Missouri; With a boy aged 10 to 14, a woman aged 30 to 39 and a woman aged 50 to 59
• Residence: 1850, Dist. 102, Wright, Missouri; With wife Mary (Miller), son Doctor W Smart, a daughter-in-law, four grandchildren and a farm hand
• Residence: 1856, Lampasas Co., Texas; Listed as a resident in the tax roll
• Residence: 1857, Lampasas Co., Texas; Was not a land owner but was a resident of the county
• Residence: 1858, Lampasas Co., Texas; Listed as a resident but not as a land owner

Notes:

The following two items were photocopies of handwritten notes. No source was given.

State of Indiana, Hendricks County, Liberty Township, Mad Creek Church.

We recommend brother John Smart & Sister Mary Smart to be a faithful brother & sister in the Church of Christ and Bro. Smart is also a faithful minester of the gospel. This is to Surtify (sic) that bro. & sister was in full fellowshst (sic) from our church. We recommend them to the Christian Church werever their lots may be cast. Oct. 9, 1834. (signed) Gideon T. Bryant; Lobanzy (?) D. Cleghorn.

Morgan County, Indiana.

To whom it may concern this is to certify that John Smart was set apart to the Gospil Ministry by fasting & the laying on the hands of the Pristbetery (sic) by order of conference. 27 Oct. 1827. (signed) Jacob Shulz, David Stewart,

With the help of someone else's (?) notes (not a full transcription) written on the page of the photocopy of the "Smart" (?) Bible, it can be transcribed as follows:

John Smart was Borne April the tenth AD (?) 1783

Polly Smart his wife was borne April 6th 1784

John Smart & Polly Smart was married July the 2ed 1807

Notes by Martha Smart:

John went to TN ca 1814.15, to Taney County, Missouri ca 1835/36, and to Williamson County, Texas in 1850. John believed to be buried in an unmarked grave, Mahomet Cemetery, Burnet County, Texas.

Texas Family Land Heritage Registry Properties in Williamson County, Texas (reprinted in Vol. 3, No. 1, The Chisholm Trail, page 41)

Mozelle Smart Huling Ranch - 1852 - Abt one mile west of Berry's Creek
Founder: William Smart of Indiana via Missouri
1974 Owners: Mozelle Smart Huling of Florence

The Smart Clan Came to Texas in 1852. Patriarch John White Smart was a Minister. His wife, Mary Miller Smart, gave birth to William (D.W.) Smart in 1825. After reaching Central Texas in 1852, the Smarts followed the wagon tracks to the big springs at Lampasas. Indians raided their camp, and they moved back to the Berry's Creek area west of Florence.

Their 1,100 acre ranch was located west of Berry's Creek on the old Florence and Liberty Hill Road now known as Farm Road 970. The land was covered with native grass and an abundance of water and wild game. The ranch was stocked with horses, cattle and sheep, and cultivated land was planted in corn, cotton and small grain. The cattle brand DW with the D turned backwards was registered in the Williamson County clerk's office in the 1850's and has been used through the years.

The Smart schoolhouse was on the ranch and one teacher taught all the grades by day. Singing schools were taught there at night and on Sunday the building became the community's place of worship. Smart School closed in 1902 when there was no longer a need for it. It collapsed during a storm several years ago.

Mozelle Smart Huling inherited this land from her bachelor uncle, Herbert Isaac Smart, who had inherited it from his father, D.W. "Doc" Smart. "Doc" had received 100 acres of the tract from his father, William (D.W.) Smart. There are 160 acres in the tract today, which support cattle and sheep. The settlers raised corn, cattle, horses and sheep. Sod was turned for the first time with a homemade plow pulled by the yoke of oxen that helped move the Smart Family to Texas. An early rock fence surrounds some of the other land which was returned to native grass for grazing many years ago.

Not found in probate index of Burnet Co., Texas (25 Jan 2017)
Lampasas Co., Texas probate records were destroyed and do not date back to the time of his death (25 Jan 2017)

Residence:
Despite the apparent contradiction with his death year given on Find A Grave, we stand by this as a source for his still being alive in 1856. The listing is for a "John Smart." His sons Jonathan H and John D are accounted for in the same tax roll; his grandsons named John were too young (or not yet born) to have been tax payers at the time.

Buried:
Mahomet Cemetery

Died:
One source here is a grave stone erected over a century after his death, whatever year it actually was

Probably died in Lampasas Co., Texas in 1858

John married Mary Miller 2 Jul 1807, Rutherford Co., North Carolina. Mary was born 6 Apr 1784, North Carolina; died 1872, Texas; was buried Mahomet, Burnet, Texas. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Dist. 102, Wright, Missouri
• Residence: 1850, Dist. 102, Wright, Missouri; With husband John W Smart, son Doctor W Smart, a daughter-in-law, four grandchildren and a farm hand

Notes:

Several Millers are found in probate records of Rutherford Co., North Carolina, however none can be conclusively linked to Mary Miller (27 Jan 2017)

Buried:
Mahomet Cemetery

Died:
Despite having a picture of the monument, we rate the reliability of this date as being pretty low -- the death date was added 2008 - 2010

Other Events:

• Will: 24 Jun 1819, Rutherford Co., North Carolina; To wife Elizabeth Smart; to son Joseph Smart; to son Thomas Smart; to son Reubin Smart; to son John Smart; to daughter Deida Burns; to grandchild Rachel Brooks; to sons Joseph, Wm. and Thomas Smart; executors son Thomas Smart and wife Elizabeth Smart

Notes:

Per Martha Smart: "The story has been passed down by family members that Joseph Smart came to Rutherford County, North Carolina about 1770. He left Pennsylvania, came through Virginia, and married Elizabeth White. They first settled in Mooresboro (now Cleveland County) and later moved to Ellenboro (Webb's Creek) which is 1/2 mile SE of Corinth Baptist Church. He was a carpenter/cooper by trade. His will was dated June 24, 1818 and filed June 1819. He is buried in Joseph Smart Cemetery, now called Hamrick Family Cemetery."

There is a grave of a William Smart (died 1795) in Rutherford Co., some researchers make him Joseph's father and give two brothers who fought in the Revolutionary War.

Name:
Some researchers give him a middle initial of 'D,' based on unknown sources

Buried:
Hamrick Family Cemetery

Joseph married Elizabeth White Virginia. [Group Sheet]