Elizabeth (Martin) Smith (1765 - 1844)

Born 31 Aug 1765 in Fauquier County, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Berryman Smith — married 31 Aug 1783 in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 1844 at about age 78 in Osborn Prairie, Fountain County, Indiana

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Biography

Elizabeth was born before 1765 in Virginia.^[1][2] She was the daughter of Jacob and Sary (Sarah Elizabeth Pope) Martin, originally of Fauquier County, Virginia.^[3]

She married Berryman Smith (license issued by Fauquier County on 31 August 1785).^[4]

They had eleven children,^[3] including Parthenia.^[5]

She died after 8 April 1844 in Fountain County, Indiana, and was buried in Osborn Prairie Cemetery, Stone Bluff, Fountain County, Indiana.^[2][6] No gravestones exist for her or her husband, Berryman.^[3]

Research Notes

There are additional sources with no facts or date. Often these are sources for the baptism or marriage of children that mention the parents or father. This section can just be removed if you will be adding those children and using these sources there.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth: Title: Merten - Martin: A Martin Genealogy Tied to the History of Germanna, Virginia Author: William A. Martin Publication: Heritage Books, Inc. - 1995, 1540E Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie, Md. 20716 - 1995 Call Number: ISBN 0-7884-0184-X Note: Orange County Historical Society - Orange, Virginia & Library of Congress. Citing: Page: p. 81, 86-87 (accessed before 9 November 2014).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Death: Title: flager.ged. Citing: Data: Text: Date of Import: 15 Oct 2004 (accessed before 9 November 2014).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 April 2018), memorial page for Elizabeth Martin Smith (31 Aug 1765–1844), Find A Grave: Memorial #183827690, citing Osborn Prairie Cemetery, Stone Bluff, Fountain County, Indiana, USA ; Maintained by Helen Lodge (contributor 47324667).
4. ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR8X-JJ2 : accessed 13 March 2016), Berryman Smith and Elizabeth Martin, 31 Aug 1785; citing Fauquier County, Virginia, reference 146; FHL microfilm 31,633. Image (82 of 688), accessed 22 August 2023. License for Berryman Smith to Elizabeth Martin, with consent of her parents, Jacob Marten and Sary Martin, issued by Fauquier County, Virginia on 31 August 1785.
5. ↑ She is believed to have died at the home of John and Parthenia (Smith) Orr (from flager2.FTW).
6. ↑ Death: Title: flager2.FTW. Citing: Data: Text: Date of Import: 23 Oct 2004 (accessed before 9 November 2014).
7. ↑ Ancestry & Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750 Author: B.C. Holtzclaw Publication: The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc 1964: Green Publishers, Inc. Orange, VA. 1978 Call Number: 975.5 Holtzclaw Note: Hutchinson Public Library - Hutchinson, Kansas. Citing: Page: p. 419 (accessed before 9 November 2014).

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SPF1-1SK : accessed 2016-03-13). FamilySearch Person: LH2T-MRM for Elizabeth Martin (31 August 1765–1844).
• Bentley, Elizabeth Petty. Virginia Marriage Records: From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography... (Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company Inc, 1982), pp. 633-635, 417, 646. These records were taken from bonds, ministers' returns, licenses, registers, ministerial records, and newspapers. See the text in the biography for details on this specific marriage. Berryman Smith & Elizabeth Martin, 31 Aug 1783.
• Donna Bennett, 2002, (dbew0314[at]color-country.net), "Electronic."

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Kitty Smith for contributions to this profile. Cooper-1 21:07, 12 March 2016 (EST)