Drewery Smith and Polly Tye Murphy's Story

Drewery Smith was born August 28, 1783 in Knox County Kentucky, the first child of William Smith( a Revolutionary War Soldier) and Susannah Lampkin.
Drewery known as Drew or Red Drew becuase of his reddish blonde hair and red beard, served as a 2nd Lt in Capt James McNutts Company of 2nd Regulars during the War of 1812, and was at the Battle of New Orleans under then General Andy Jackson.
On April 4th 1814 Drewery married Polly Tye Murphy.
Polly's father was also a Revolutionary War Soldier, and founded the First Baptist Church in Powell's Valley Campbell County. It is said that some of Polly's family was scalped by Indians in Kentucky. The Tye (Tighe) family came to Kentucky from South Carolina and are of French Huguenot decent.
Drewery was one of the founders of scott County Tennessee. He was appointed as a commissioner for Scott County along with William Chitwood, Wayne Whitecotton, William Massengill, John Tipton, William Rich, and Thomas Lawson. Drewery and his family lived on Smith Creek.

Excerts from "Dusty Bits of the Forgotten Past" by Henry Clay Smith the son of Drewery
My grandfather Druy Smith and his wife came from Virginia- I don't know just what time- and my grandmother Smith(Sally)and her people came from South Carolina. She had lots of relations in Whitley and Knox County, Ky. I have heard grandmother tell about the Indians scalping some of her folks after they came to Kentucky. Following is part of a letter from Joe Smith: " I am sending you what information I can gather from the family Bible in regard to William Smith, who fought in the Revolutionary War. He took a grant of land in eastern Kentucky. Hew later went to Virginia, where he meet and married Susan Lampkin. Her father, too had taken land in Kentucky as a Revolutionary Vet. They had two children Drue Smith married Polly Tye. The Tyes had left South Carolina shortly after the Revolutionary War, They were from French Huguenots descendant." Continuing from Dusty Bits of the Forgotten Past
In 1838 the Cherokees were to be removed to Oklahoma. Drewert Smith and Sam walker were among those taking part in the transfer, now known as "The Trail of Tears". As the Indians began to fall by the wayside many of them became rebellious and had to be shot and corralled very rudely, according to the report the writer had from his grandparent, Drewery Smith. He and Walker first became disgusted with the state of affairs with regard to some of their Cherokee friends they had helped to round up and to whom they had promised many good things.
"The kind acts of these two toward certain of the tribesmen, in the face of the cruel treatment by the government, served only to arouse mistrust in the Indians. Sensing this, Smith and Walker began to fear that if they could not get the authorities to let up on these people, that their own lives and those of their families stood in imminent danger from secret attacks by this incensed red mob, consequently they began to help one or more of the number to escape each day , until they reached the Sequatchie Valley.

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