ROBERT SMITH: My G G Grandfather
BORN: About 1823 Tennessee
Dallas County Missouri U S Census Township Jackson Post Office Shady Grove
1860 SMITH, Robert 37 TN
Mary 17 MO second wife
1880 SMITH, Robert 57 TN
Mary 39 MO
Family History:
Came to Missouri from Tennessee a short time before the Civil War.
He homesteaded land south and east of Foose Missouri, or five miles south
of Buffalo MO. on a small creek known as Buffalo Branch. It was there that
he brought his new wife and children after the death of his first wife.
Robert died quite young leaving his wife and small children.
His second wife Mary Finley remarried to James B. Hoover.
Brothers of Robert Smith
Micheal Smith 42 TN Wagonmaker
Wife: Catherine 33 TN
Peter Smith 40 TN Farmer
Wife: Parlena 29 TN