John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 2474

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The youngest son of John Michael Smith, Jr., another John, married Elizabeth ____.  His will was dated 5 June 1806.  It was probated in Barren Co. at the October Court 1809 and mentions his wife Elizabeth, daughters Martha, Keziah, Mary Elizabeth, Susannah and Fanny, and names the sons Aaron and John, who have been given their full portions as has the daughter Ann.  The son Michael was nominated as executor.  We have the following children of the couple:

1. Aaron Smith.
2. John Smith.
3. Michael Smith.
4. Henry Smith, perhaps, who, with John Smith, was deeded land by Zachariah Smith in 1801.  [Note that he was not named in the will.]
5. Ann Smith married in 1787 Ambrose Barlow.  The marriage bonds of Mercer Co., KY, show the bond of Ambrose Barlow and Ann Smith, with the consent of John Smith for Ann’s marriage.  The witnesses were Peter Huffman and Jesse Smith.
6. Martha Smith.
7. Keziah Smith.
8. Mary Elizabeth Smith; Elizabeth, the daughter of John Smith and Elizabeth, was born 24 April 1777 according to the baptismal records at “Hebron”.  The sponsors were Zachariah Smith (the father's brother), Barbara Aylor, and Mary Weaver.  In my work on the Baptismal Records I did not identify the relationship of Barbara Aylor and Mary Weaver to the parents, if any.
9. Susannah Smith.
10. Fanny Smith.

This information on the families of John Michael Smith, Sr., and, Jr., appeared in Beyond Germanna where credit was given to several people for their contributions.

The family of John Michael Smith is better known than that of his brother Matthias.  To make things interesting (confusing?) there was an English Smith family in the RRV whose ties to the Germanna people were strong.

The families we have been studying recently show that: