Charles Allen Smith (1737 - 1818)

Born 26 Dec 1737 in Richmond County, Virginia Colony

Descendants

Died 22 Jul 1818 at age 80 in Braselton, Jackson County, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Research Note: found this - don't know how accurate but might help.

People Mixed Up By Scrambling of Virginia Family Names

The name of Thornton came into the Smith and Harper lines through the distaff sides and was mostly used as a middle name and has generally been dropped. However, there is no sense in forgetting that the original forbear was Colonel William Thornton, of Mobjack Bay in Gloucester County, Virginia, whose ancestral roots appear to have reached back to Thornton Hall in England's Buckinghamshire. Our original John Smith from England landed in York County, Virginia before 1700, married first Barbara Allen and secondly Elizabeth Thornton, daughter or granddaughter of Colonel Wm Thornton, whereupon the name Thornton was used in the middle for various male descendants and the first name of William for others."

Colonel William Thornton married three times and had 19 children..... A William Smith died testate in Richmond County, Northern Neck of Virginia (county seat, Warsaw); his middle name had been dropped. He was the father of John Smith (born 1715) who married Mary Colston, and they were the parents of Charles Smith (1737-1818), who married Elizabeth Hendrick of Amalia, was born in Richmond County, Virginia, and died in Jackson County, Ga. A William Smith died intestate in Amelia County, Virginia in 1749, and a person who knew of his descent wrote in the Circuti Court record margin the name "Thornton". The list of eight children of Charles Smith and Elizabeth Hendrick contains the name of Thornton Smith who died young. ...."

People Mixed Up By Scrambling of Virginia Family Names by George Magruder Battey III

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From find a grave website http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=167429909

Birth: Dec. 26, 1737, Richmond County, Virginia, USA Death: Jul. 22, 1818, Jackson County, Georgia, USA

Charles Smith's ancestry remains a mystery. Descendants are involved in a SMITH Y-DNA STUDY and we know from 7 confirmed results that we are of Scandinavian/Norse/Viking origins, Haplogroup I-M253 Known as the Invader DNA. For Many years Grandpa Charles was thought to be the son of John Smith & Mary Colston but we have yet to find any documentation that could confirm this. Our DNA does not match any of the other Founding Smith lines in Colonial Virginia. Our SMITH DNA Study is ongoing. Grandfather Charles Smith married Elizabeth Hendrick, daughter of John Hendrick & Tabitha Hurt.

Their known children were: (1) William Thornton Smith b. ca. 1764 died in infancy. (2) Martha "Patsy" Smith Dupree b. ca. 1765. (3) Tabitha Hendrick Smith Harper b. 1768, (4)William Thornton Smith b. ca. 1769, (5) Elizabeth "Betsy" Smith Echols b. 1771, (6)Anna Allen Smith Dickson, b. 1772, (7) Mary Ann "Nancy" Smith Lumpkin b. 1778, (8) Robert Allen Smith b. 1783 & (9) John Hurt Hendrick Smith b. ca. 1787 - 1790.

In July of 2016, five descendants of Charles & Elizabeth Hendrick Smith visited the grave site and placed flowers while the following poem in remembrance was read. We traveled from Louisiana & Alabama to document this grave yard in hopes of making a permanent record of the resting place of many of our family members. Known to be buried here are Charles Smith, his son Robert Allen Smith, as well as two infant children belonging to Martha Harper & John M. Baldwin. Martha being the granddaughter of Charles Smith & the daughter of Tabitha Hendrick Smith Harper. It is also suspected that Robert Allen Smith & wife Nancy Kirk had two additional children who are buried here. We found 16 to 18 additional burial spots besides Charles & his son Robert. These two graves were first located in 1958 by George Magruder Battey, Jr. & Charles C. Smith, both family researchers. In 2006/2007 cousin Ron Cescutti put up the iron crosses to mark the grave sites. It has also been noted in many family biographies that our Grandfather Charles Smith was a Revolutionary War soldier. To this date we have not been able to verify these claims as our genealogy seems to be confused with another Rev Soldier's record.

Spouse: Elizabeth Hendrick Smith (1742 - 1829)

Children:

Tabitha Hendrick Smith Harper (1768 - 1839)*

Elizabeth Smith Echols (1771 - 1829)*

Anna Allen Smith Dickson (1772 - 1840)*

Robert Allen Smith (1783 - 1817)*

John Hurt Hendrick Smith (1790 - 1854)*

Burial: Smith Family Cemetery, Braselton, Jackson County, Georgia, USA

Find A Grave Memorial# 167429909