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Biography

This space will be used to document my Kentucky and Missouri ancestors that have or had relationships with Smallwood Duett also recorded as Smalwood Dewitt.

Smallwood was born in Estill, Kentucky, about 1832. He is found in the census at age 16 in Clark, Kentucky with the Thomas Fielder or Fielding Thomas. [I believe the two names caused confusion in who was his father because his wife maiden name of Feland] His family is found living Fayette Missouri around 1856 with the birth of son Walter Scott Duett. And then he is found in Miiford, Barton county, Missouri where his family lived next to the Earp family of Barton county Missouri.

My grandfather told stories about how his ancestors ran with outlaws, and now the Y DNA has shown connections to Jesse James, one of the stories told was how his ancestors also ran bootleg during prohibition by using movie tins to hide the alcohol. Later I found is wife living just blocks away from the Disney family.

Smallwood’s wife later was living in Kansas City in the neighborhood of the Disney family.

Time Line

• 2 February 1809
  
• Violet Gest marriage to Fielden Thomas @ Loudoun Virginia 2 February 1809
• "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR87-8BC : 1 July 2020), Violet Gest in entry for Fielden Thomas, 1809.

• 1810 Census

• 21 July 1812
  
• Eliza Gist marriage to Francis Preston Blair 21 July 1812
• "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28D-N5FQ : 22 July 2021), Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Gist, 21 Jul 1812; citing Marriage, Franklin, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 266,193.

• 1820 Census
• 1830 Census
• 1832
  
• Smallwood Duett born Estill Kentucky.
• 1840 Census

• 1850
  
• Smallwood Dewitt in household of Fielder Thomas, Dist 2., Clark, Kentucky, United States (see small image in Images

• 2 February 1858
• Birth of son Walter Scott Duett @ Fayett Howard Missouri.

1860

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHZ7-9WK : Thu Oct 05 12:06:12 UTC 2023), Entry for Smallwood Dewitt and Frances Dewitt, 1860.

• 7 February 1865
  
• Birth of son Edward K S Duett died26 January 1884 Milford Barton Missouri
• I just found Edward Duett's memorial on the Find a Grave app. Actually I’m and I and my father went on the hunt and we found him and is father, I paid to have his father’s stone erected back to normal it was also laying flat on the ground.

1870

• "1870 US Census" PO Barton, Lamar Twp., Barton, Missouri, Johneathan or Jonathan Earp, ( I believe his farm land was adjacent to Smallwood Duett land which was at Milford, Barton, Missouri.) Johnethan Earp was born about 1824 in Kentucky. In 1870, he was 46 years old and lived in Lamar, Missouri, with his wife, Dorcas age 43, w, f, keeping house, b. Ky, Docras C, 18, w, f, at home, b. Ky; Barbara, 17, w, f, at home, b. Ky; Johnethan, 14, w, m, at home, b. Ky, Walter, 12, w, m, at home, b. Missouri, attended school; William, 7, w, m, b. Missouri, attended school; George W, 6, w, m, b. Missouri, attended school; Nettie, 3, w, f, b. Missouri; Thomas Robertson, 30, w, m, laborer, b. Illinois.
• https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/13117750?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a2264474d44586d59756e4f43575a667931767763677a694d7456355158463730573234733570336f574264513d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d

• 1880
  

Census needed.

• 17 April 1884
  
• Smallwood Duett dies Milford, Barton County, Missouri.

• 19 April 1884'
  
• Smallwood Duett buried at Howell Cemetery, Milford Township, Barton, Missouri

Paternal DNA Matches from Ancestry

• 10 cM 5th to 8th cousin, Child of Donald Dewitt was born 1933 Kingston Ulster NY, died 2009 Kingston, NY he is the son of Harry and Ida.

• Judy St Clair 9cM 5th to 8th Cousin Ross William Tice her Grandfather.

• Timothy Tice 15 cM 5th to 8th cousin

• Andrew Keenan 21 CM 4th to 6th cousin.his ancestors include, Thomas Keenan & Charlotte McCart, Thomas Etherson & Roseanne McReynolds, George Bonsall & R Dury Martin, Henry Walker & Mary Dettra.

• Steve Mandzak son of John Michael and Patricia Tolerton. 28 cM 4th or 5th cousin.

• Y DNA lines that match

• Suggested Y connections from Family Tree YDNA
• https://discover.familytreedna.com/y-dna/R-M269/tree

Sources

• 1840 Census Clark County Fielder Thomas
• United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DHTS-33W?cc=1401638&wc=95R9-2NT%3A1031325101%2C1031357901%2C1031357902 : 9 April 2016), Kentucky > Clark > Clark county, part of > image 46 of 190; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).