Margaret Smith, daughter of Aaron Fairfax Smith

Margaret Smith, daughter of Aaron Fairfax Smith, married Robert Sherrod on April 6, 1833. 

Aaron Fairfax Smith, son of Peter Smith of Caswell County, North Carolina

Aaron Fairfax Smith (son of Peter and Jemima Smith), born in North Carolina in 1783; died April 12, 1867.  His tombstone states that he was 83 years of age at the time of death. Both he and his wife were buried in Dering Cemetery, later known as McDougal Cemetery at Paradise, Kentucky.

Aaron Fairfax Smith married Judith Strum, daughter of Pioneer Leonard Strum (or Strom).  Her birth date was July 20, 1792.  She died June 18, 1860.

Rothert, in his History of Muhlenberg County, 1913, says that Paradise is about a mile from Old Airdie and is built on land first settled by Pioneer Leonard Strum.  He and his sons, Jacob and Henry (Henry married Susannah Smith, daughter of William Wigginton Smith), opened up a farm and also conducted the first store.  They also operated a boat landing.  Aaron Fairfax Smith was a farmer in Muhlenberg County and, seemingly, a prosperous one.  He and Judith had these children of which a record is found.  There may have been others.

Margaret  

Leonard  

Eudoxie 

Lucinda 

Elizabeth

Presley William

James

Moses Fairfax

Nancy

Amanda Jane

Edward Rumsey (sometimes referred to as Edgar Rumsey)

Lucinda Smith, daughter of William Wigginton Smith

Lucinda (Lucy) Smith  (daughter of William Wigginton Smith), born 1804 or 1805; married January 2, 1832, William Bell (born 1807 or 1809).  

Muhlenberg Census Report for 1850 states that William Bell was a farmer.  Children in that year were:

Martha Bell                17

William T. Bell           16

Sarah Bell                 15

Mary S. Bell               13        Evidently Mary S. and Burrel M.

Burrel M. Bell            13        were twins

Eliza A. Bell              9

John Bell                   7

Nancy Bell                4

All the children except Nancy were attending school and every member of the family was a native Kentuckian. 

Susannah Smith, daughter of William Wigginton Smith

Susannah Smith (daughter of William Wigginton Smith) born April 14, 1802; married Henry Strom, probably in 1822, in Muhlenberg County.  Both are buried in Old Paradise Cemetery on Green River (three miles from Old Airdie Iron Works).  Henry died November 23, 1840, age 53 years (born 1787).  Sussana U. (or V.) died September 3, 1839, age 37 years, four months, and seventeen days (born April 17, 1802).

In the year 1850 three Strom children lived with the family of Thompson B. Smith (Susannah Strom's brother).  They were:

Louisa Strom,                       born 1834 or 1835

Eudoxy Strom,                      born 1835 or 1836

Nancy Strom,                        born 1836 or 1837

William Wigginton Smith bequeathed "to my grandchildren, the children of my daughter Susan Strom--except Margaret Cundiff--the remaining sixth part of such proceeds amongst them to be equally divided.  I do not bequeath any sum or property to my Granddaughter Margaret Cundiff."  Most likely he had given to her her full share when she was married. This seems to state clearly that Susan and Henry Strom also had a daughter named Margaret.  Very likely there were other children older than the ones named above. 

James G. Smith, son of William Wigginton Smith

James G. Smith (son of William Wigginton Smith) married Sally Cundiff in Muhlenberg County on November 23, 1821.  The marriage of a James G. Smith to Mary F. Bell on October 23, 1842, is recorded.  Perhaps further research will reveal whether this is father and son or the same man. 

Thompson Bailey Smith, son of William Wigginton Smith

Thompson Bailey Smith (son of William Wigginton Smith), born 1813 or 1814, was a farmer.  In 1860 his real estate was valued at $2,400 and personal property at $3,000. His wife, Mary W., a Kentuckian, was likely born in 1823 or 1824.  The names of their children were:

Susan M.,                  b. 1843 or 1844        (one Susan Smith m. M. H. Haltsly,                                                                                                                        February 13, 1868)

Mary E.,                      b. 1844 or 1845      (one Mary Smith m. H. J. Dukes,                                                                                                                            October 5, 1864)

William R.,                 b. 1846 or 1847        (William Riley Smith m. Martha                                                                                                                               Elizabeth Edward, August 13,1866)

Samuel B.,                b. 1848 or 1849

Annie E.,                   b. 1851 or 1852        (m. John D. Casebier)

James I.,                    b. 1853 or 1854

Thompson B.,           b. 1855 or 1856

In 1880, Thompson B. Smith and Thompson B., Jr., were living with Thompson, Sr.'s, daughter Annie and her husband John D. Casebier.  It was in that census report that he stated that both his father and his mother were born in Virginia.  His wife, Mary W., had died between 1870 and 1880.

John D. and Annie E. Casebier were then the parents of three, as follows:

George,                      b. 1873 or 1874        (George Casebier married Lulu Kimmel on

                                                                        September 26, 1893)

Thompson B.,           b. 1875 or 1876

Annie B.,                   b. 1880                       (one Annie Casebier married Wilben Mitchell on

                                                                        October 17, 1899) 

William Bradford Smith, son of William Wigginton Smith

William Bradford Smith, son of William Wigginton Smith, born in Kentucky in 1808 or 1809.  He was a farmer and in 1860 his real estate was valued at $1,200 and his personal property at $5,000.  On August 9, 1847, in Muhlenberg County, he married Susan Jackson, whose year of birth was probably 1819 or 1820.

Susan (Jackson) Smith was living in 1860, but the 1870 census gives the name of William B. Smith's wife as Elizabeth.  Presumably Susan died before 1867 for on October 27, 1867, "W. B. Smith" married Elizabeth England.  It would appear that the first ten children shown below were those of Susan and that Charles W. and Eliza Smith were children of the second wife, Elizabeth England.

William Bradford Smith's children were:

Francis M. (male),    b. 1848-9                    

Martha A.,                  b. 1849 or 1850         

Lucinda E.,                b. 1850 or 1851                   

William T.,                  b. 1851 or 1852         

James H.,                  b. 1852 or 1853                   

Reuben Edward,      b. 1854 or 1855         

Tiberius,                     b. 1856 or 1857

Mary E.,                      b. 1858 or 1859

Elizabeth,                  b. 1860 or 1861

Robert F.                    b. 1861 or 1862

Charles W.,               b. 1868 or 1869

Eliza,                          b. 1870 or 1871