Smith, Captain Thomas Leslie
1834 - 1894 (60 years)
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Name Smith, Thomas Leslie [1] Title Captain Birth 1 May 1834 Bedford County, VA, USA 
[2, 3] Gender Male Census 1 Jun 1850 Pettis (District 68), Missouri, USA [4] Age: 13y Census 14 Jun 1860 Clay, Lafayette, Missouri [5] Age: 24y Occupation 14 Jun 1860 Clay, Lafayette, Missouri [5] Teamster Military End 9 Jun 1865 [6] - 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.
Web http://www.friendsofhistoricboonville.org Death 29 Dec 1894 [2] Cause: Septic poisoning following tumor removal procedure (2nd) 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.
Person ID I641 Bratt Family Tree Last Modified 17 Jul 2016
Father Smith, John Wesley, b. 8 Jan 1807, Bedford County, VA, USA d. 27 Mar 1844, Rockingham Co., NC (Age 37 years) Mother Leftwich, Sally Saunders Claytor, b. 28 Sep 1807, Bedford County, VA, USA d. 6 Apr 1881, Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri (Age 73 years) Marriage 5 May 1827 Bedford County, VA, USA [7, 8] Notes - Virginia Marriage file suggests Mar. 5, same year.
Family ID F71 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Davis, Mary Jane, b. 14 Feb 1847 d. 22 Jan 1886 (Age 38 years) Marriage 13 Feb 1868 [9] Children 1. Smith, Leslie G. d. 1936, Kansas City, MO 2. Smith, Charles R. 3. Smith, Laura 4. Smith, Ruth 5. Smith, Shirley 6. Smith, Ferdinand Family ID F325 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 12 Aug 2015
Family 2 Thompson, Fannie Pope, b. 13 Oct 1859 d. 12 Dec 1936, Kansas City, MO (Age 77 years) Marriage 8 Sep 1887 [9] Children 1. Smith, Major Richard Thompson, b. 3 Jul 1888, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri d. Kansas City, MO + 2. Smith, Edwin Kelly, b. 24 Dec 1890, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri d. 3 Mar 1976, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri (Age 85 years)3. Smith, Elizabetn Yeatman, b. 6 Mar 1894, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri d. 5 Jan 1968, Kansas City, MO (Age 73 years)Family ID F324 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 12 Aug 2015
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Event Map 
Birth - 1 May 1834 - Bedford County, VA, USA 
Census - Age: 13y - 1 Jun 1850 - Pettis (District 68), Missouri, USA = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Photos Smith, T. Leslie
Documents 
Smith, Cpt Thomas Leslie Obituary
Histories 
Leftwich, Sally Saunders Claytor -- Biography
A biography of Sally Saunders Claytor Leftwich, written by Dianne Gomez
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Sources - [S25] Walter Lee Hopkins, Leftwich histories, (J. W. Fergusson & Sons (reprint by Higgings Books), 1941), P 70.
- [S25] Walter Lee Hopkins, Leftwich histories, (J. W. Fergusson & Sons (reprint by Higgings Books), 1941).
- [S51] Dianne Haley Gomez, haley-smith-narrative.
- [S247] Leftwich, Sally Saunders Claytor, 1850, Census, USA, District 68, Pettis, Missouri, USA, (Year: 1850; Census Place: District 68, Pettis, Missouri; Roll: M432_409; Page: 129A; Image: 262).
- [S246] Leftwich, Sally Saunders Claytor, 1860, Census, USA, Clay, Lafayette, Missouri, (Year: 1860; Census Place: Clay, Lafayette, Missouri; Roll: M653_628; Page: 699; Image: 349; Family History Library Film: 803628).
- [S49] Thos. L. Smith, Parole Card.
- [S20] SMITH2.ged.
Date of Import: Mar 14, 2003 - [S21] TANDEY.FTW.
Date of Import: Mar 14, 2003 - [S47] Dianne Hailey Gomez, thos. leslie smith group sheet.
- [S25] Walter Lee Hopkins, Leftwich histories, (J. W. Fergusson & Sons (reprint by Higgings Books), 1941), P 70.