Family/Spouse: Nora. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Web: http://www.friendsofhistoricboonville.org
• Census: 1 Jun 1850, Pettis (District 68), Missouri, USA; : 13y
• Census: 14 Jun 1860, Clay, Lafayette, Missouri; : 24y
• Occupation: 14 Jun 1860, Clay, Lafayette, Missouri; Teamster
• Military End: 9 Jun 1865

Notes:

Military Service Notes
Served in 13th Missouri "Wood's" Cavalry CSA
See: http://missouridivision-scv.org/mounits/woodregcav.htm

13th Missouri "Wood's" Cavalry CSA
Commonly nicknamed, "Wood's Regiment", this unit was originally designated the 14th Mo Cavalry Battalion. Later as the unit was increased to regimental size, it was re-designated as the 13th Mo Cavalry Regiment. It is also known as "Wood's Partisan Rangers", and was commanded by Col. Robert C. Wood. It served primarily as an "unattached" or independent unit, although it was assigned to Marmaduke's Cavalry Division. It saw action in the following battles: Pine Bluff, Ark. (Oct. 25, 1863), Jenkins' Ferry (April 30, 1864) and in the numerous engagements of Price's 1864 Missouri raid. The Regiment surrendered at Shreveport, LA and was paroled in June 1865. At the time of its surrender it was part of the 1st Missouri Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Trans-Mississippi Department.

Notes from D. Haley Gomez:
Capt. L. Smigh was an officer in the 13th Missouri Cavalry, Company I, Confederate Army. He served under Col. Robert C. Wood, in Wood's Regiment or Wood's Partisan Rangers, as they were known. His unit served as the personal guard fo General Sterling Price and saw action at Pine Bluff, Ark., Jenkins' Ferry and numerous engagements under Gen. Price in MO. The regiment surrendered at the end of the war at Shreveport, Louisiana and was paroled in June, 1865.
Famliy history says that Gen. Price and his soldiers came to Rankin's Mill during the civil War and ordered William Rankin to grind flour for his troops. They paid with Confederate dollars. I can't help wondering if Capt. Leslie Smith was in that party. If so, his son was later to marry Mr. Rankin's granddaughter and live in the Rankin house on the farm. His portrait now hangs over a roll-top desk in that house.
Capt. Smith married first, Mary Davis and had eight children: four boys and four girls. She died in January 1886 and he then married Fannie Pope Thompson in 1887. He was appointed sheriff of Cooper County in 1878 and served a second elected term in 1884.
He and is young family lived in the family quarters of the old jail-house.
(see http://www.friendsofhistoricboonville.org).
Family history tells of the day a prisoner escaped and Fannie chased him down the alley with a broom. She used to cook meals for the prisoners.

Military End:
Parole card at conclusion of Civil War. Copy in personal files. Signed by Alvale Bishop, Cpt. and Provost Marshall. Lists Cpt. Smith's residence as Lexington MO.

Thomas married Davis, Mary Jane on 13 Feb 1868. Mary was born on 14 Feb 1847; died on 22 Jan 1886. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mary Jane Smith

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• AFN: Address:
  8HG8-3C
• Name: John Wesley John Wesley SMITH

John married Leftwich, Sally Saunders Claytor on 5 May 1827 in Bedford County, VA, USA. Sally (daughter of Leftwich, Rev. William and Leftwich, Sally) was born on 28 Sep 1807 in Bedford County, VA, USA; died on 6 Apr 1881 in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: Address:
  8HG8-4J
• Residence: 1846
• Census: 1 Jun 1850, Pettis (District 68), Missouri, USA; : 42y
• Occupation: 1 Jun 1850, Pettis (District 68), Missouri, USA; Widow
• Census: 14 Jun 1860, Clay, Lafayette, Missouri; : 46y
• Occupation: 14 Jun 1860, Clay, Lafayette, Missouri; Widow
• Census: 1 Jun 1870, Saint Charles, St Charles, Missouri; : 63y; Address:
  Saint Charles, MO
• Census: 3 Jun 1880, Elk Fork, Pettis, Missouri; : 72y

Notes:

Anecdote:
Notes from Dianne H. Gomez
Sallie S. C. Leftwich Smith is the subject of a wonderful letter written probably by her son, Ferdinand. He describes his memories as a 10 year old boy, of the journey which the widowed Sallie and her ten children made by steamer and by wagons from Bedford County, Virginia to Pettis County, Missouri in 1846. They traveled with "fourteen servants, three wagons of household goods and ten seated carry-all or pleasure wagon equipped with tents for a camping trip over the mountains." They arrived in December after six weeks journey and, with the help of her brother, William Burwell Leftwich of Pettis County, she bought a tobacco farm where she raised her children.
Some sources show her name as Sarah Saunders Clayton Leftwich, but the Leftwich Family Association says it is Claytor. Sallie's brother William Burwell Leftwich married John Wesley's sister Sarah Elizabeth Smith.

Notes:

Virginia Marriage file suggests Mar. 5, same year.

Other Events and Attributes:

• AFN: Address:
  JV1Z-H1
• Name: Reuben Bartholomew Smith

Notes:

Notes from D. Haley Gomez
Ruben Smith enlisted in the Virginia Militia at the age of 17 in the Revolutionary War, serving under Capt. Robert Beal and Col. William Heth (or Heath). He was wounded, captured by the British, and then escaped through the aid of his sweetheart, Betsy Rice Smith, according to the D.A.R. records. Her father, Edward Smith, was a Tory and probably [was] opposed to the relationship. They married in 1782 and must have reconciled with her family, as they are remembered in Edward Smith's will of 1815. By the end of his life, Reuben was so enfeebled by the wound in his face from the war that his son, John Wesley Smith, ran the family plantation for his father and mother. Reuben and Betsy had fourteen children.

Reuben married Smith, Elizabeth Betty on 4 Nov 1782 in Goochland Co., Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Smith, Edward and Rice, Sarah) was born on 2 Feb 1766 in Albermerle, Va; was christened on 2 Feb 1766 in Louisa, Va. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: Address:
  JV1Z-J6
• Name: Betsy Smith

Notes:

There is a possibility that Reuben and Betsy were cousins, but no documentation has been found, to date. Other Smith researchers have asked the question and not been able to make a connection.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Whitehead Leftwich
• Ordained: 24 Oct 1808

Notes:

Ordained:
To perform marriage as a minister of the Gospel of the Baptist Church

William married Leftwich, Sally on 22 Dec 1795 in Bedford County, VA, USA. Sally (daughter of Leftwich, Major Augustine Jr. and Turner, Mary) was born on 28 Aug 1777; died on 22 Apr 1846. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]