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Samuel Smith

Samuel Smith

Male 1784 - 1857  (73 years)   Has 4 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name Samuel Smith
    Birth 1783/1784  Georgetown Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male
    _TAG Uncle/Aunt ancestors 
    _UID B92F898DD2DAD4118AC44445535400000DF4 
    Death 1857  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I18127  Marty and Karla Grant
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2025

    Father Samuel Smith,   b. 1 May 1753   d. 1843, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
    Mother Mollie Rice,   b. 1757   d. 1832, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Marriage 7 Jun 1772  Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID A86EE46C34C26B4C9A509E7C7B91F155697C 
    Family ID F7295  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Keziah Lane,   b. 1784/1790, Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1813/1820, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 30 years)
    Marriage 1800/1810  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID 5341210199EDEE49967C5F871A581D2620D3 
    Children 
     1. Rev John L Smith,   b. 1810/1811, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1870/1880, Marion Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     2. Stephen Smith,   b. 8 Jul 1813, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Nov 1888, Marion Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F166  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

    Family 2 Sarah Hays,   b. 1799/1800, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 51 years)
    Marriage 1813/1820  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID 44858E896B2071438A7EDE0DEF18A020D988 
    Children 
     1. Mary Smith,   b. 1820/1821, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1860, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 40 years)
     2. Samuel L Smith,   b. 1822/1823, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Ginsey Smith,   b. 1822/1823, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Elizabeth Smith,   b. 1824/1825, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1870, Marion Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 46 years)
     5. William H Smith,   b. 1828/1829, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Frances Smith,   b. 1832/1833, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1850/1853, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 20 years)
    Family ID F9038  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

  • Notes 
    • !NOTES:
      Samuel Smith is my 4 x great uncle, by marriage.

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      !CENSUS:1810 Marion Dist., SC * two *
      p. 29 Samuel Smith Senr age 45+ (bef 1765) 01001-01100-0-10.
      p. 14 Samuel Smith age 16-25 (1784/94) 00100-00100-0-2. *ours*
      My analysis (who each person *might* be)
      1 male 16-25 (1784/1794) = Samuel Smith (c1784)
      1 female 16-25 (1784/1794) = Kesiah Lane Smith (1784/90) wife
      Slaves:
      2 (no ages or sexes) = 1. ?
      " (no ages or sexes) = 2. ?;


      !CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist, SC pg 66 Samuel SMITH Jr age 26-44 (1775/94) "310010-20010";

      !CENSUS:1830 Marion Dist, SC pg 47 Samuel SMITH Jr age 40-49 (1780/90) "3012001-121001";


      !DEED:15 Oct 1834 Marion Co., SC Deed Book P., p. 248
      Osburn Lane to Samuel Smith Jr. for $250 for a Negro woman named Jenny and her son Frank.
      S: Osburn (his mark) Lane
      Wit: B. Moody.
      * From "Abstracts of Marion County [SC] Deed Books O and P 1831-1835", Lucille Utley, Kathy Loyd, John M. Gregg. Three Rivers Historical Society, 2003.;


      !NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 374 Marion Co., SC Benjamin Hays 1835
      Will dated 1 Jan 1835 pr 26 Jan 1835
      dau Sealy Allin and her two youngest daus Elizabeth and Nancy Ann.
      sons James, Joseph, William, Levy and Jesse Hays.
      To John Martin his wife Elizabeth Martin, her sons Alexander, Jehu and Stephen Wilson.
      Wife Elizabeth
      dau Sally wife of Samuel Smith.
      ...
      Guardian Bond 14 Feb 1845 John Martin gdn to -
      A. H. Martin, Stephen Wilson, Taltha A. Martin, James Martin and Elizabeth Martin, grandchildren of Benjamin Hays.
      ...;

      !CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg 135 Samuel SMITH Minor age 50-59 (1780/90) "01111001-1012001";


      !NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 426 Osburn Land (sic) 22 Jun 1840. James Lane.
      ...
      10 Heirs $313.93 each up to Feb 1842.
      In court of Ordinary James Lane, applicant, vs.
      Jno Lane
      Thos Lane
      John Blackman
      Joseph Lane
      Robert Lane
      Osborne Lane
      Saml Smith
      Alexd Lane
      Stephen Lane
      Saml Smith (sic)
      Alexd Lane (sic).
      Joseph Lane, Robert Lane, Osborne Lane, and Stephen Lane reside without the state.
      ...
      * From "Marion County Probate Records" Volume 1, Lucille Utley, Danny Smith. Three Rivers Historical Society. 1985.


      !NAMED:30 Jun 1840 Marion Dist, SC Ordinary's Real Estate Book 1826-1843 pg 119 Osborne LANE's Real Estate. Valuation: Joseph BASS, John BRYAN and Woodward MANNING recommend sale of land and value it at less than $1000. 30 Jun 1840. Summons: James LANE, applicant. Summons to John LANE, Robert LANE, Osborne LANE, Samuel SMITH, Alexander LANE, Stephen LANE, legal heirs and representatives, to appear in Court for division of land in Marion District on Buck Swamp, bounded by lands of estate of Daniel PLATT, John MANNING, John LEE, Barney WATSON, John TURBEVILLE and Joseph BASS, etc. James LANE Sr, John BLACKMAN andn Joseph LANE also in second list of heirs. Notice to absent defendants: Joseph, Robert, Osborne and Stephen LANE. 6 Jul 1840. John LANE Sr, Thomas LANE, John BLACKMAN, S. SMITH Jr and Alexander LANE consent to sale. 7 Jul 1840. Order of Sale Tract of 800 acres on Buck Swamp as previously described. 5 Nov 1840 sold to Samuel SMITH Jr for $2006. Decr 7 1840.;

      !NAMED:18 Jul 1840 Marion Dist, SC Sales Book A-262 Osborn LANE Estate. Conditions of the sale of the personal property of Osborn LANE deceased are such all sums over five dollars credits until January next with note and approve Security and interest from date 18 Jul 1840. Purchaser: John TURBEVILLE, Samuel SMITH, James LANE Jr, John L. SMITH, John BLACKMAN Jr, Stephen SMITH, Alexander LANE, Kineon WATSON, Hugh SMITH, John G. LANE, James LANE Sr, Daniel PLATT. Sold 18 Jul 1840. Signed James (x) Lane, adm. Witness: William TURBEVILLE.;

      !CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist, SC # 1025 Samuel SMITH, 66 (1783/84) born Marion;


      !REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 170-173

      Hays.—Another family of note in Hillsboro Township is the Hays family. The common ancestor of that family was Benjamin Hays; I do not know who his wife was; he raised a considerable family of sons and daughters; the sons, as remembered, were James, Jessee, William H., Joseph B. and Levi H. Hays ; the daughters, as remembered, were Mrs. Elias Allen, the mother of the late Rev. Joel Allen, and Thompson Allen, of Marlborough County; Mrs. Samuel Smith, of Buck Swamp, who died in 1857, and Mrs. John Martin, of Buck Swamp and Maiden Down; there may have been other daughters. These sons and daughters are all dead, some of them for many years, but were the stock of a numerous progeny —down to a second and third and even to a fourth generation ; many of them unknown to the writer, and, therefore, can say but little about them.


      !REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 209-213
      ...
      Rowland Roberts, third son of Reddin Roberts, married Miss Mary Smith, daughter of the late Samuel Smith, senior, of Buck Swamp; they raised a family of sons and daughters -the oldest, I think, was Pinckney, who went into the Confederate War, and was killed or died of disease, unmarried. Roger married, first, a daughter of Colonel John Roberts ; they had four or five children, boys and girls, when their mother died, and Roger married again-I do not know whom. Giles, another son, married Miss Hays, daughter of Wilson Hays. Samuel and Stephen, I think, both married daughters of Captain L. M. Edwards ; they all have families, are good citizens, and are doing their share towards building up and forwarding the interest and welfare of the county. Rowland Roberts' daughters, two of whom are only known by the writer; one married the late Samuel Watson (his second wife, I think) ; her name was Bettie; she died some years ago, leaving five children, named Mary, Lamar, Judson, Elliott and Carrie. Mary is married to Albert Allen, a son of Elmore Allen, of Marlborough County. Albert Allen resides in North Carolina. Elmore C. Allen, of Latta, married the other daughter of Rowland Roberts, named Sallie ; resides at Latta, and has several children, neither age or sex is known. Elmore Allen is one of the well-to-do citizens of the town and county ; he and his wife are first cousins, their mothers being sisters. ;


      !REFERENCE:"A History of Marion County, South Carolina" by W.W. Sellers, Esq. 1902. Pg 225 - 232;


      !REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 386-395
      ...
      Osborne Lane married a Miss Crawford, a sister of old James Crawford, of Spring Branch-I suppose, older than her brother. The Crawfords were quite respectable in that day and have continued to be so down to the present time. The fruits of the marriage, as known, were eight sons, John, Thomas, Alexander, James, Robert, David, Stephen and William, and two daughters, Kesiah and Elizabeth.
      ...
      The other daughter, Kesiah, of old Osborne Lane, married old Samuel Smith (three junior), of Buck Swamp; the results of the marriage were two sons, John L. and Stephen Smith, born, respectively, in 1811 and 1813, when she died; and old man Samuel, Jr., married a second time, Miss Sallie Hays, daughter of old Ben Hays, of Hillsboro Township (now), and who has already been noticed herein among the Hays family. Two better citizens than John L. Smith and Stephen Smith are hard to find anywhere. John L. Smith became a Methodist traveling preacher, and after traveling three or four years, married a Miss Wannamaker, of Orangeburg County, and located, but continued to preach in a local position up to a short time before his death; he was an exemplary, pious. Christian gentleman. John L. Smith settled in the Fork, on Buck Swamp, and accumulated a good property, which he left unincumbered to his widow by a second marriage and his children ; he raised five sons and three daughters ; his sons were Daniel Asbury, Marcus L., Jacob W., John A. and Wilbur F. Smith, each and every one of whom, except, perhaps, Wilbur and Albert, who was too young, went into the war early and remained in it to the end. Marcus L. was badly wounded, and carries the evidence of it in his person every day since. Daniel Asbury came out of the war as a Captain ; married, after the war. Miss Alice Bethea, a daughter of Captain E. C. Bethea; by the marriage four sons were born and raised, of whom Dr. Maxcy Smith, the eldest, now at Page's Mill, is one and the only one in the State. The other three, with their mother, are in Birmingham, Ala., all doing well. Dr. Maxcy Smith married an Alabama lady. and has three or four children (small). Daniel Asbury Smith died some years ago. Marcus L. Smith married Miss Mary Smith, a daughter of Reddin W. Smith, east of Marion ; they have some children; don't know how many; has one or two married daughters. Jacob W. Smith, the third son, married Miss Fannie Nichols, who has already been noticed in or among the Nichols family. John Albert Smith, the fourth son, married a widow, Jennie Smith, of Mississippi; had and raised three daughters and one son, Henry Smith, now at Mullins, and has a family (small). The three daughters are married-the eldest to John Wilcox, of Marion, already mentioned among the Wayne family. Another daughter married Dennis Berry, of Marion ; they have some children, how many is unknown. The youngest daughter, Laura, married Chalmers Rogers, of Mullins, and resides there. John Albert Smith was first appointed County Auditor, which place he held with success for three or four years, when he was elected Clerk of the Court in 1880, as successor to R. K. Clark; he held that office for two years, when he died, and was succeeded by John Wilcox, as hereinbefore stated. The three daughters of John L. Smith were Anna M., Jane and Hettie. Anna M. married Philip W. Bethea; by the marriage, three sons and three daughters have been raised-George C, L. Asbury and Pickett the daughters are Bettie, Nannie and Lilian. George married Julia Wayne, the only daughter of Gabriel L Wayne; they had no offspring, and he died a few years ago. L. Asbury never married, and died two years ago. Pickett Bethea, the third son, married a daughter of Captain R. H. Rogers, of the Gaddy's Mill section ; they have, perhaps, two or three children (small) ; Pickett is a graduate of Wofford College, and has successfully followed teaching ever since his graduation -has been teaching in the same school in Darlington County for four or five years, which evidences his popularity as a teacher. Bettie, the eldest daughter, married David E. Allen, and has already been noticed among the Watson or Allen family. Nannie and Lilian recently married two Mr. Williams, brothers, saw mill men; may have a child each. The second daughter of John L. Smith, Jane, became the second wife of Dr. John J. Bethea, of Mullins; by this marriage, two sons, Lawrence and Julian, and one daughter, Minnie were born. Lawrence Bethea married a lady in Mississippi, first, and by her had three or four ohildren-a son grown, named John ; a daughter, Ruth, who married a Mr. West, from Augusta, Ga., and who is now at Mullins, merchandising;. and one daughter. Pearl, who died before maturity. The first wife died, and Lawrence married a Miss Rogers, daughter of David S. Rogers, of the "Free State" section ; he is farming. Julian M. Bethea, the second son of Dr. John J. Bethea, married a lady in Mississippi ; has only one child, a daughter ; he is merchandising at Mullins. Hettie Smith, the youngest daughter of John L. Smith, married Pinckney C. Page, who was killed in the war or died of disease, and left three children, who has already been noticed herein or among the Page family. Wilbur F. Smith, the youngest son of John L. Smith, graduated at Wofford College, in 1875, and soon afterwards emigrated to Mississippi, where he still remains ; I suppose he has a family. Minnie Bethea, the daughter of Dr. John J. Bethea, married Robert M. Daniel, son of W. H. Daniel, of Mullins ; she died in two or three years after marriage, childless. Stephen Smith, brother of John L. and a grand-son of old Osborne Lane, married Polly Huggins, a daughter of old John Huggins, of Huggins Bridge, on Little Pee Dee ; by this marriage seven sons and four daughters were born and raised; the sons were George W., Ebenezer, B. Cause, S. Elmore, S. W. Smith, J. Emory (all gallant soldiers in the war), and another killed on the railroad, near Florence, during the war; these, together with their sisters, have already been mentioned in or among the Huggins family, the Martin family and the Harrelson family. ;


      !REFERENCE:"A History of Marion County, South Carolina" by W.W. Sellers, Esq. 1902. Pg 492 - 502;

      !PROBATE:Marion Co, SC Probate Roll # 1138 (Vol II, page 91);


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