Elizabeth (Harris) Rich (abt. 1772 - abt. 1861)

Born about 1772 in Buckingham, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of George Lumpkin Smith — married about 1789 in Virginia, United States

Wife of Charles A Rich — married about 1840 in Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died about 1861 at about age 89 in Wilson, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth was born about 1772. She was the daughter of John and Mary (Pendleton) Harris.

In about 1789, she married George Lumpkin Smith. He is the brother of her 2nd husband's 1st wife. They had a farm in Buckingham County where they had 6 of their 7 children.

1. Byrd White Smith b. 1790 VA - d. 1869 TN, m. Martha McAdoo
2. Harris Smith b. 1791 VA - d. 1863, m. Nancy Strother Flood
3. Poindexter Patterson Smith b. 1793 VA - d. 1895 VA, m. Martha Jane Berryman
4. John Alexander Smith b. 1795 VA - d. 1841 TN, m. Nancy McHaney
5. William F Smith b. abt. 1797 - d. UNK
6. George Smith b. 1798 VA - d. 1864 TN
7. Robert Bowling Smith b. 1818 - d. 1905 TX, m. Mary UNK

In the early 19th century, they decided move to Tennessee with some other relatives and neighbors. They settled in what is known as Smith Fork Creek, in Wilson County. They grew corn and tobacco. They then moved to a the "W. H. Tribble place", which was 1 1/4 miles from Smith Fork Creek.

After her husband died in 1826, she eventually re-married in about 1840 to Charles Rich. He passed in 1856. She lived until 1861 and was buried in the Prosperity Cemetery next to her second husband.

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90565381/elizabeth-rich

• The Smith family of Buckingham County, Virginia, 1740-1900. Publisher: [N.C.W. Moulton], [Carmichael, California], [1995]. The Smith family of Buckingham County, Virginia, 1740-1900. Author: Nancy Claire Wilson Moulton (Composer). Summary: Alexander Smith (ca. 1740-1782/1783) and his wife, Diana Phelps, of Buckingham, Virginia had seven children, born ca. 1764-after 1790. Descendants listed, chiefly descendants of two of their sons, George Lumpkin Smith (ca. 1764-1826) and Shadrack Smith (1772-1855), lived in Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and elsewhere.
• https://www.smithsworldwide.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I35251&tree=tree1

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC67-JQW : 9 November 2014), Elizabeth Rich in household of Charles Rich, Wilson county, part of, Wilson, Tennessee, United States; citing family 1652, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKTR-W8PZ : Wed Oct 04 15:19:01 UTC 2023), Entry for Elizabeth Rich and , 1860.

See Also

Op. cit., www. genealogy.com/ftm/r/i/n/William-P-Rinehart-TX/WEBSITE-100/UHP-0842.html. “In the fall of 1810, following a bad crop year, a group of neighbors in the Vaughn Creek section of Prince Edward Co., across the Appomattox River from Bent Creek area, decided to move westward to Tenn. Edmund Harris and John Harris, cousins of Elizabeth, both grandsons of David Harris, a brother of Thomas Harris of Prince Edward Co., had already settled there in 1806 and were writing back of fertile soil and promising country available. The group was composed of Meadors, Hawkins, Harris, Gillam, Patteson, Woodson and others. In this wagon train were Elizabeth Harris, her husband, George Lumpkin Smith and their children. Also in this group was James Gilliam, his wife, Frances Hopkins (See Gilliam family history) and several of their children including their daughter, Martha T. Gilliam, who married Gideon Harris, the great nephew of our Thomas Harris of Prince Edward Co. We are indebted to Gideon Harris and his mother, Elizabeth who preserved the family history left by Thomas Harris.”

• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/i/n/William-P-Rinehart-TX/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0842.html. “13 Nov 1993 - The Harris Family of Prince Edward County, Virginia by Eleanor Harris McRae, page 31. (Elizabeth Harris born 1772 (1850 census of Wilson Co., Tenn. listed her age as 78). She married in 1789, George Lumpkin Smith, born ca 1767, a son of Alexander Smith and Diana Phelps. (Records in Virginia Museum on campus of Univ. of Richmond, "Elizabeth Harris, wife of George L. Smith, was a daughter of John Harris and his wife Mary of Buckingham, Va.")

Acknowledgments

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