John White Smart b. 10 Apr 1783 Ellenboro, Rutherford, North Carolina d. 1858-1859: Wm. L. Gann's Genealogy Site

1783 - 1858-1859 (75 years)

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Name	John White Smart [1]
Born	10 Apr 1783	Ellenboro, Rutherford, North Carolina [1, 2]
Gender	Male
Census	1820	Monroe Co., Indiana [3]
Residence	1820	Monroe Co., Indiana [3]
	With two boys and a girl under age 10, a girl age 10 to 15 and a woman age 26 to 44
Census	1830	Morgan Co., Indiana [4]
Residence	1830	Morgan Co., Indiana [4]
	With two boys age 5 to 9, two boys age 10 to 14 and a woman age 40 to 49
Census	1840	Benton Twp., Taney, Missouri [5]
Residence	1840	Benton Twp., Taney, Missouri [5]
	With a boy aged 10 to 14, a woman aged 30 to 39 and a woman aged 50 to 59
Census	1850	Dist. 102, Wright, Missouri [6]
Occupation	1850	Dist. 102, Wright, Missouri [6]
	Farmer
Residence	1850	Dist. 102, Wright, Missouri [6]
	With wife Mary (Miller), son Doctor W Smart, a daughter-in-law, four grandchildren and a farm hand
Residence	1856	Lampasas Co., Texas [7]
	Listed as a resident in the tax roll
	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.
Occupation	1857	Lampasas Co., Texas [8]
	Stock raiser; owned twelve horses and twenty cattle
Residence	1857	Lampasas Co., Texas [8]
	Was not a land owner but was a resident of the county
Occupation	1858	Lampasas Co., Texas [9]
	Stock raiser (semi-retired?); owned twelve horses
Residence	1858	Lampasas Co., Texas [9]
	Listed as a resident but not as a land owner
Died	1858-1859 [10]
	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
Buried	Mahomet, Burnet, Texas [2, 10]
	Mahomet Cemetery
		John White Smart (1783 - 1855) - Find A Grave Memorial Includes headstone photos and biographical information. Created by: Kerry Girolamo Record added: May 26, 2001 Find A Grave Memorial# 5484153
Notes	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. 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. 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)
Person ID	I1150	Wm L Gann Ancestors
Last Modified	25 Jan 2017

Father	Joseph Smart, b. Abt 1736, Pennsylvania , d. 8 Oct 1819, Rutherford Co., North Carolina (Age ~ 83 years)
Mother	Elizabeth White
Married	Virginia [11]
Family ID	F520	Group Sheet

Family Mary Miller, b. 6 Apr 1784, North Carolina , d. 1872, Texas (Age 87 years)

Married 2 Jul 1807 Rutherford Co., North Carolina

Children

	1. Isabella Smart, b. 02 Mar 1808, Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana , d. Aft 01 Jun 1860 (Age 52 years)
	2. Elizabeth White Smart, b. 5 Sep 1811, Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana , d. 1891, Lampasas Co., Texas (Age 79 years)
	3. Joseph Smart, b. 8 Feb 1813, Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana , d. Abt 1830, Tennessee (Age 16 years)
	4. Brice Miller Smart, b. 8 Feb 1816, Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana , d. 1 Jan 1880, Salado Creek, Williamson, Texas (Age 63 years)
+	5. John D Smart, b. 3 Sep 1818, Bloomington, Morgan, Indiana , d. 6 Apr 1878 (Age 59 years)
	6. Jonathan Henderson Smart, b. 1821-1822, Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana , d. Bef 1 Jun 1880 (Age 58 years)
	7. Doctor William Smart, b. 15 Jul 1825, Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana , d. 30 Oct 1879, Williamson Co., Texas (Age 54 years)

Last Modified 26 Aug 2014

Family ID F433 Group Sheet

Sources

[S14616] Williamson County, Texas: Its History and Its People, Mrs. Jean Shroyer, History Book Chairman and Mrs. Hazel Hood, President, (1985, Williamson County Genealogical Society, Inc., Round Rock, Texas), 274-275.
[S22405] Mahomet Cemetery Listing, http://www.main.org/mahomet/s.html#S.
[S40181] 1820 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), p. 146, Monroe Co., Indiana (Reliability: 2), 06 Sep 2010.
[S40180] 1830 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), p. 264, Morgan Co., Indiana (Reliability: 2), 28 Aug 2010.
[S40179] 1840 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), p. 112, Benton Twp., Taney, Missouri (Reliability: 2), 22 Aug 2010.
[S34621] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), fam. 247, p. 251A, Dist. 102, Wright, Missouri (Reliability: 2), 08 Aug 2010.
[S70] Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910, index and images, FamilySearch, (FamilySearch), Lampasas county > 1856 > image 8 of 16 (Reliability: 3), 18 Dec 2014.
[S70] Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910, index and images, FamilySearch, (FamilySearch), Lampasas county > 1857 > image 8 of 11 (Reliability: 3), 18 Dec 2014.
[S70] Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910, index and images, FamilySearch, (FamilySearch), Lampasas county > 1858 > image 9 of 16 (Reliability: 3), 18 Dec 2014.
[S40191] Find a Grave, Jim Tipton, founder, (http://www.findagrave.com), Memorial# 5484153 (Reliability: 2), 29 May 2013.
[S14605] Our Children's Ancestors: Chew-Wootan Family Genealogy, Kristy Williams, (2001), http://www.ourchildrensancestors.com/chew-wootan/josephsmartsr.htm.