Mark Smith (bef. 1817)

Born before 1817 in South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Biography

Mark Smith Sr continuously lived in Perry Co once he arrived in Alabama. Differentiation with his namesake son is shown by the son being noted as "of Greene County" when he acquired land in 1835 and his father being noted as "Mark Smith senior of Perry Co" on his 1837 land acquisition. To acquire land in 1835 the son would have to have been born in 1816 or earlier,

Disambiguation

Because of geographical distance from the Perry and Hale counties where Mark's extended family resided, Mark was most likely not the Mark Smith, possibly the son of Jeremiah Smith, who married Mary Tidmore in 1842 in Calhoun Co, AL, lived in Cherokee Co, AL in 1850, and later died in neighboring Etowah Co, AL. The FAG data is therefore incorrect.

Sources

• 1835 Legal Record for Mark Smith of Greene Co: "U.S., General Land Office Records, 1776-2015"
  Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records; Washington D.C., USA; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1246 #2066469 (accessed 28 November 2022)
  Name: Mark Smith; Issue Date: 8 Apr 1835; Place: Hale, Alabama, USA; Land Office: Cahaba; Meridian: St Stephens; Township: 21-N; Range: 6-E; Section: 5; Accession Number: AL0490__.359; Document Number: 18160; Original URL: http://glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=AL0490__.359&docClass=STA&sid=pcxrz0hq.zuz.

• 1837 Legal Record notes father as Mark Smith Sr: "U.S., General Land Office Records, 1776-2015"
  Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records; Washington D.C., USA; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1246 #1868322 (accessed 28 November 2022)
  Name: Mark Smith; Issue Date: 14 Aug 1837; Place: Hale, Alabama, USA; Land Office: Cahaba; Meridian: St Stephens; Township: 21-N; Range: 6-E; Section: 4; Accession Number: AL1740__.174; Document Number: 31113; Original URL: http://glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=AL1740__.174&docClass=STA&sid=pcxrz0hq.zuz.