SMITH, JAMES H (b. 20 MAY 1851, d. APR 1934)

Note: Burried on the LEONARD SMITH farm, across th road from the house, about 500 yards back with chain link fence & double stone for JAMES & SARAH, Another stone with 3 infant children,ROBERT GORDON,RUBY NELL , & LELIA MAE

106-106 SMITH, James H and Sarah J(from 1880 Hart con census.
WOODWARD, Victoria


Below info copied from 1920 census Metcalf Co.,Sulfhur Well-2nd District


215 James H Smith 68
Sarah 68
Maggie 40

245 John Randolph Smith 38
Leaura M 36
Leottie B 9
John R. Jr 4 1/2
Dorothy D. 2 1/2
James L less than a year

Death: APR 1934 Barren Co , Ky..

Death: 13 OCT 1917 Barren, Ky.

Death: 15 MAR 1958 BARREN CO.Ky.

Note: Start Nursing School-Chattanooga State Collage of Nursing-Sept.1999.

Death: 14 JUL 1992 Somers, Mont.

Death: 1996 BARREN CO.Ky.

Death: --Not Shown--

Death: 25 NOV 1996 Lakewood, Ohio

Death: 1960 BARREN CO.Ky.

Death: 19 NOV 1989 HIseville, Ky. Barren County

Note: Subj: [SCKY] Jinny and Nancy DEAN
Date: 4/5/2002 10:37:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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Hello Kentucky listers! I am still working on my DEAN brick wall:

Am lookingfor information regarding Jinny DEAN, b. abt. 1789, m. Wm.
FERGUSON in 1805 in Barren Co. and d. bef. 1815, and . . . .Nancy DEAN m.
Richard LOCK(E) in 1807, in Barren Co. Am trying to find a connection
between either or both of them and my ggg-grandfather, John DEAN m.
Catherine TUTER (or SUTER?) in 1807 in B.C. Am wondering if they are
sisters to John; looking for John's parents (and Catherine's). Would really
appreciate any help anyone can give me.


Chris in Illinois
Researching: Waltrip in VA, KY and IL; Dean, Key, and Owens in KY; and
Wilkes, Norman in TN.
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Note: Notes from Howard indicate Bessie Jewel has 2 aunts, Lily age 95 & Laura age 90 (in year 2000) & they live in Center.

Death: 27 MAR 1981 Nashville, Davidson Co., Tenn.

Note: Grant co marriages ? Williams, Samuel A. Mary A. Smith May 10, 1870 Wm. Smith May 10, 1870

NAMES & DATES FROM 1850 CENSUS ,BARREN CO. 1850 ,DIVISION 2 #271/276 .WILLIAM SMITH, FARMER.

SMITH-BAGBY Bible

Posted by Sandi Gorin on Tue, 04 May 1999

Surname: Smith, Bagby, Hindman, Trevitts

NOTE: I have no connection and no further information.
Bible was later in possession of Dr. Bob Hindman of Russellville, KY.

Reuben Smith born March 26th 1809.
Margaret Smith born Sept. 28th 1810.
John R. Smith born Jan. 11th 1812.
Sydney Smith born Sept. 25th 1813.
William Smith born April 1st 1815.
Joseph Smith born Oct. 26th 1816.
Granville Smith born Feb. 16th 1818.
Daniel Smith born Jan. 12th 1820.
Elizabeth Smith born Aug. 30th 1821.
Lydia Ann Smith born Apr 30th 1824.
Malinda Smith born Nov. 24th 1825.
Elias H. Smith born Dec. 11th 1827.
One deceased daughter born 1829.
Katharine B. Smith born Feb. 11th 1831.
Zerilda Smith born Jan. 9th 1833.
Sophia L. Smith born April 4th 1836.
The above named children were children of Elias & Elizabeth Smith of Barren Co Ky.

W. W. Bagby born July 24th 1824.
Catharine B. Smith [Bagby] born Feb. 1st 1831.
Children:

Mary Moss Bagby born Oct. 15th 1851.
Ellen Bagby born Aug. 24th 1853.
Henry Bagby born Decr. 13th 1854.
Elizabeth Bagby born June 11 1857.
William Waller Bagby born September 16, 1861.

W. W. Bagby was elected Captain of Co. F 6th Reg. Orphans Brigade Nov. 19th 1861. Was wounded at this battle of Shiloh April 7 1862. He died of his wounds at the home of Mr. Ed Trevitts, Okolona, Miss. July 7, 1862.



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E. H. Smith
Author: Beulah Franks Date: 22 Nov 1998 12:00 PM GMT
Surnames: SMITH, O'HARA
Classification: Biography
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Hon. E. H. Smith was born in Barren County, Ky., December 1, 1827. He obtained a good common school education. In 1847 he came to Grant County and assumed the position of Deputy Clerk under his brother, William, who was the Circuit Court Clerk. He first concluded to study medicine, but finding it uncongenial to his tastes abandoned the idea. No man ever labored more zealously to obtain success. He studied law and on the 16th day of April 1855, he procured a license and was admitted to practice at the Grant County bar. In 1855 he was elected upon the Democratic ticket Clerk of the Grant County Court for four years. In 1863 he was elected to represent Grant County in the General Assembly. He married Miss Sallie O'Hara, sister of Dr. R. H. O'Hara, of this place, and the late Judge James O'Hara of Covington. Mr. Smith was especially able as a land lawyer. Starting in life a poor boy he accumulated a large fortune and was considered at the time of his death the wealthiest man in the county, leaving property to the value of over $120,000. He was a prominent Odd Fellow. He died at his home in this city, February 6, 1890.

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Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky., May 30, 1901,
Reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Gratn County Ky Historical Society.

1255 Smith, William 45 M KY clerk ct court $16000 $12200
Sarah S. 38 F KY
Susan F. 17 F KY deaf + dumb
James P. 15 M KY


Page No. 119 New Page No. 925
Schedule 1.--Free Inhabitants in in the County of Grant State
of Kentucky enumerated by me, on 7/25/1860 . R.H. O'Hara Ass't Marshal
Post Office Crittenden .

1255 Smith, William 45 M KY clerk ct court $16000 $12200
Sarah S. 38 F KY
Susan F. 17 F KY deaf + dumb
James P. 15 M KY

Deaths listed in Grant Co. Ky

Smith, William 85 year old white male, born in Barren Co., KY widowed farmer, residing in Williamstown ; died May 1900 of arsenic poisoning. Father and mother born in Barren County, KY.

excerp of wills

State of Kentucky Grant County Court April Term 1848.
I, William Smith, Clerk of the county court for the county aforesaid do certify that the foregoing last will of Archibald Norton, deceased, was produced to court at the term above stated and proven by the oath of C. Ruddell subscribing witness thereto to be the act and deed of the said A. Norton. Whereupon the same was ordered to be recorded which is accordingly done in my office this 3rd day of July 1848. William Smith, Clerk by E. H. Smith, Deputy Clerk.

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Acknowledgement: Henry Childers and Elizabeth, his wife, acknowledge a deed from themselves to Wm. Smith, all of Grant County, Kentucky, dated February 8, 1847, for land in Clark County, Missouri. The east half of the NE quarter of Section 27 in Township 64, Range 7. The west half of the SE quarter of Section 27, Township 64, Range 7. The two tracts consisting of 280 acres. February 7, 1847. C-55.


Acknowledgement: Wm. Smith and Sarah S. Smith, his wife, acknowledged a deed from themselves to James Blackburn dated February 8, 1847 for land in Clark County, Missouri, consisting of 280 acres. February 8, 1847. C-56.

State of Kentucky Grant County Court September 1849.
This last will and testament of Newton S. Dickerson, deceased, was produced in open court at the term above stated and proven by the oaths of B. N. Carter and C. J. Lindsay and ordered to be recorded, whereupon the same is duly admitted to record in my office. Given under my hand this 1st day of October 1849.
Wm. Smith, Clerk by E. H. Smith, Deputy Clerk.

The Macedonia Baptist Church was organized in 1843. The charter members were William Smith, Robert Patterson, Wesley Wharton, Nancy Wharton, Julia Wharton, Margarita Hambrick, Amanda Hambrick, Lydia Stone, Johnathan Johnson, and Julia Johnson. In 1928 the Macedonia Baptist Church constructed its new building. In 1936, the church was deeded the adjoining cemetery by Jonesville Lodge #637, Free and Accepted Masons. The parsonage was built in 1944. Reverend G. C. Mullins served this church for 24 years.

Death: MAY 1900 Grant Co. Ky

Note: SMITH-BAGBY Bible

Posted by Sandi Gorin on Tue, 04 May 1999

Surname: Smith, Bagby, Hindman, Trevitts

NOTE: I have no connection and no further information.
Bible was later in possession of Dr. Bob Hindman of Russellville, KY.

Reuben Smith born March 26th 1809.
Margaret Smith born Sept. 28th 1810.
John R. Smith born Jan. 11th 1812.
Sydney Smith born Sept. 25th 1813.
William Smith born April 1st 1815.
Joseph Smith born Oct. 26th 1816.
Granville Smith born Feb. 16th 1818.
Daniel Smith born Jan. 12th 1820.
Elizabeth Smith born Aug. 30th 1821.
Lydia Ann Smith born Apr 30th 1824.
Malinda Smith born Nov. 24th 1825.
Elias H. Smith born Dec. 11th 1827.
One deceased daughter born 1829.
Katharine B. Smith born Feb. 11th 1831.
Zerilda Smith born Jan. 9th 1833.
Sophia L. Smith born April 4th 1836.
The above named children were children of Elias & Elizabeth Smith of Barren Co Ky.

W. W. Bagby born July 24th 1824.
Catharine B. Smith [Bagby] born Feb. 1st 1831.
Children:

Mary Moss Bagby born Oct. 15th 1851.
Ellen Bagby born Aug. 24th 1853.
Henry Bagby born Decr. 13th 1854.
Elizabeth Bagby born June 11 1857.
William Waller Bagby born September 16, 1861.

W. W. Bagby was elected Captain of Co. F 6th Reg. Orphans Brigade Nov. 19th 1861. Was wounded at this battle of Shiloh April 7 1862. He died of his wounds at the home of Mr. Ed Trevitts, Okolona, Miss. July 7, 1862.



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Note: GRANDVILLE & MARTHA listed in the 1870 Metcalfe census-Lafayette precinct #111-108

Greenville is listed in the barren co 1850 census- carpenter #1054 2nd district

111-108 SMITH, Granville and Marthan N
LAFAYETTE Precinct:1870


Barren County KY 1850 Census Households - Divison 2, Pages 476-481
Image 145, Page 476A
. 1031-1050 THOMPSON, John C & America
. 1032-1051 THOMPSON, Nathan & Eliza J
. 1033-1052 THOMPSON, Mary R
. 1034-1053 SMITH, Greenville (carpenter) & Martha N
. 1035-1054 BRADLEY, Beverly & Malinda J
. 1036-1055 BRADLEY, George & Susanna
. 1037-1056 DALE, Maria
. 1038-1057 ABBOTT, William
. 1039-1058 FLETCHER, William T & Rebecca
. 1040-1059 WITHERS, James J & Nancy J

Note: Relinquishment: Elizabeth Clark relinquishes the right to administer the estate of her husband, John N. Clark, which was then granted to Wm. Smith. December 14, 1846. C-46.

some references to missouri in court orders grant co. ky

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Guardianship: Elizabeth Clark is appointed guardian of Elias Clark and Mary Elizabeth Clark, infant orphans of John N. Clark, they being under the age of 14 years. Security: John R. Smith. February 14, 1848. C-102.


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Clark, Elizabeth View Image Online
State: Kentucky Year: 1850
County: Barren Roll: M432_191
Township: Division 2 Page: 475
Image: 338

Note: Marriage - Smith, E. H. Sallie C. O'Hara July 10, 1850 John G. Smith July 11, 1850
July 7, 1862.



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Grant County, KY - Bios: Smith, E. H.
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E. H. SMITH 3199, Grant Co.

Surname: Smith, Milzener, Ohara, Hogan, Needham

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887, Grant Co.

E. H. Smith was born in Barren County, Ky., December 1, 1827, and is the twelfth of a
family of sixteen born to Elias and Elizabeth (Milzener) Smith. Elias Smith was born in
Lincoln County, Ky.; was engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life, and was a son of
Reuben Smith, who was born in Virginia, but was one of the first settlers in Lincoln
County, Ky. He was a farmer and stock raiser. Mrs. Elizabeth was a native of Anderson
County, Ky. E. H. Smith was reared in Barren County, Ky., and received a good common-
school education. In 1847 he commenced writing in the circuit and county clerk's office
in Grant County, and remained until 1852, then went to Kenton County, Ky., and was deputy
circuit clerk for one year, and in March, 1855, moved to Grant County, Ky. He read law,
and was admitted to the bar in 1855, and practiced up to 1858, then was elected county
clerk, and served one term, giving universal satisfaction. In 1863 he represented Grant
County in the Legislature, and is one of the leading Republicans of Kentucky. His criminal
practice has been very large, he having prosecuted and defended in as many important cases
as any lawyer in Kentucky. He was married July, 1850, to Sallie C. Ohara, who was born in
Owen County, Ky., a daughter of James Ohara. Four children have blessed this union: Lucy,
Kate, Helen M. and James W. Lucy married Dr. O. P. Hogan, Jr., and had three children:
Overton P., Elihu and Willie. Kate married Tim Needham, and had one child--Hubbard S.,
Helen M. is unmarried, and James W. died May 29, 1885. Mr. Smith is a member of Centurion
Lodge, No. 100, I.O.O.F., located in Williamstown. His wife is a member of the Catholic Church.
Mr. Smith has recently retired from the practice of law, and now employs his time by riding
over and conducting his two large farms in Grant County, which comprise 1,600 acres. At the
organization of the Bank of Williamstown he became president and has since retained that
position.

E. H. Smith
Author: Beulah Franks Date: 22 Nov 1998 12:00 PM GMT
Surnames: SMITH, O'HARA
Classification: Biography
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Hon. E. H. Smith was born in Barren County, Ky., December 1, 1827. He obtained a good common school education. In 1847 he came to Grant County and assumed the position of Deputy Clerk under his brother, William, who was the Circuit Court Clerk. He first concluded to study medicine, but finding it uncongenial to his tastes abandoned the idea. No man ever labored more zealously to obtain success. He studied law and on the 16th day of April 1855, he procured a license and was admitted to practice at the Grant County bar. In 1855 he was elected upon the Democratic ticket Clerk of the Grant County Court for four years. In 1863 he was elected to represent Grant County in the General Assembly. He married Miss Sallie O'Hara, sister of Dr. R. H. O'Hara, of this place, and the late Judge James O'Hara of Covington. Mr. Smith was especially able as a land lawyer. Starting in life a poor boy he accumulated a large fortune and was considered at the time of his death the wealthiest man in the county, leaving property to the value of over $120,000. He was a prominent Odd Fellow. He died at his home in this city, February 6, 1890.

Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky., May 30, 1901,
Reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Gratn County Ky Historical Society.
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Page No. 184 New Page No. 990
Schedule 1.--Free Inhabitants in Williamstown in the County of Grant State
of Kentucky enumerated by me, on 8/23/1860 . R.H. O'Hara Ass't Marshal
Post Office Williamstown .



1265 Smith, Elias H. 32 M KY lawyer $4000 $5600
Sallie C. 29 F KY
Hellen M. 7 F KY
Lucy R. 5 F KY
Kate 3 F KY
James W. 1 M KY
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1850 GRANT CO KY CENSUS

SMITH 290A-292A-292A-296B-302B-305B-306A-308A-320B-329A-334A-337A-341B-347A-350B -360B-362A

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Marriages listed in Grant co. Ky

Smith, E. H. & O'Hara, Sallie C. - July 11 1850


Smith, Child. Born July 5, 1852, female, white, alive. Daughter of E. H. Smith and Sarah O'Harah of Grant County.



E. H. Smith, guardian of Josephine O'Hara and Isabella O'Hara. Mentions receipt of money from J. O'Hara Jr., executor of J. O'Hara, deceased; statement that Josephine is aged 16 years and that Isabella is aged 14 years; each ward has been "kept at school"; statement of Theodore O'Hara that Josephine and Isabella O'Hara are his nieces and that they have been kept at school since August 30, 1864; and statement of Mrs. Lucy O'Hara who is the grandmother of Josephine and Isabella. December 28, 1866.


Settlement



E. H. Smith, guardian of Josephine O'Hara. Mentions money spent on tuition and clothing for 1867.

E. H. Smith, guardian of Isabella O'Hara. Mentions money spent on tuition and clothing. July 7, 1869.


Settlement



E. H. Smith, guardian of Josephine O'Hara. Mentions money coming from the executor of J. O'Hara, deceased on June 8, 1868. Includes a receipt from Josephine O'Hara for her full share of the estate, from her guardian, E. H. Smith, dated December 16, 1870.

E. H. Smith, guardian of Isabella O'Hara. Mentions money coming from the executor of J. O'Hara deceased on June 8, 1868.


State of Kentucky Grant County.
I. H. B. Smith, clerk of the County Court of the County of aforesaid certify that this will of Hosea Harris Sr. was produced to the Grant County Court at the March Term 1840 and proven by the oaths of R. Burrows, James Collins and James H. Robinson the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded which is accordingly done. Att: H. B. Smith, Clerk by Wm. Smith, Deputy Clerk.
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Williamstown Cemetery





No one knows the identity of the first person buried in Williamstown Cemetery. Parts of it have been buried in since the early 1830's. The Kendall family owned the majority of its boundaries at the time the cemetery was established and was probably among the first to bury there. On April 16, 1859, a group of Williamstown businessmen purchased approximately 6 acres of land from Alfred kendall for the purpose of established a cemetery company. The person in charge of the purchase was John F. Sheriff, a long time resident of the county and a trustee of the company. A small lot adjacent to the old Baptist Church yard was excluded from the sale. It was to be used by the Kendall family for a burial plot. In the mid to late 1880s, the company contracted a brick storage vault to be built at the cost of $1,000. The vault was used for the purpose of storing tools and the temporary storage of a deceased person, when the weather or some other reason would not permit the digging of a grave. The old vault stands today, after 100 years of use, in the center of the old section of the cemetery and is still used for the storage of tools and equipment. On July 12, 1889, an additional 8-1/2 acres were purchased from Mrs. Phoebe Kendall Collins who had inherited the property from her father. The trustee in charge of this purchase was E. H. Smith, a nephew of H. B. Smith the first County Court Clerk of Grant County, and a very prominent attorney at that period of time. Other members of the company were T. L. Clark, whose father was an old pioneer of the county, J. H. Webb, G. N. Webb, P. T. Zinn, N. H. Jeffers, and D. L. Cunningham. The trustees and member of the company would purchase large lots in the cemetery and lay off their family plots and then sell the remainder for profit. This advertisement was copied from a 1909 Williamstown Courier.

Grant County Order Book C - 1846-1855

Permission: E. H. Smith is permitted to qualify as an attorney at law in this court. March 1855. C-603.


E. H. Smith was a prominent attorney, banker and Grant County Court Clerk. In 1863 he was elected to State Legislature. He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Williamstown. He was born in Barren County, Kentucky in 1827 and came to Williamstown in 1847.

Grant County in 1901


The court took steps at its first meeting to raise funds with which to erect the necessary public buildings and levied a poll tax of $4 on each voter in the county. At that time there were about 350 tithemen in the county. William Arnold was sworn in as Sheriff and Hubbard B. Smith, an uncle of the late Hubbard Smith, was appointed County and Circuit Clerk, to act during his good behavior. The committee named in the act creating the county to locate the county-seat came to the county in June of 1820, and on the regular court of that month, which fell on the 12th, reported to the court that they had viewed many places in the county as a suitable place for the county seat, and had selected the farm of William Arnold, the Sheriff, as the best and most accessible, with more natural advantages. They were, no doubt influenced to make this decision by the liberality of Mr. Arnold, who was an old Revolutionary soldier, to locate the county-seat on his premises. He donated to the county one acre and a half of land for a public square, and upon which to locate the county buildings, and he further obligated himself in writing to furnish to the county and to all persons building in the new county-seat firewood and timber with which to build their home, for a period of 7 years. The report of the Commissioners was accepted and approved by the court, and the new town ordered to be called Philadelphia. The name, however, was of short duration, as at the end of a month it was discovered that there was another town in the state of the same name, and then, in honor of Mr. Arnold, who had done so much to give the new county-seat a start in life, they christened the new town Williamstown.

The first term of the Grant Circuit Court was held at the house of Justice Henry Childers on the 5th day of May, 1820, and all of its business was completed and it adjourned in one day. Three indictments were returned by the grand jury.

The first court house was built by William Arnold at a cost to the county of $2,199, to be paid in three installments. It was a brick building, two stories high, thirty-four feet long, by thirty feet wide. The first floor was twelve feet high and the second floor eight. The lobby was paved with brick, laid closely together in cement. This building served its purpose well and good until 1856, when the present court house was erected and the old one removed.

The first jail in the county was built by Absalom Skirvin. The jail was two stories high, and had two small windows in each story, and it is said that from its confines no prisoner ever escaped. When it was torn down and replaced with a brick, fifty years ago, it was removed to the farm now owned by D. M. Hall, and there its stands yet in fair and reasonable repair, a monument to the skill of our pioneer fathers and the durability of the oaken logs of which it is constructed.

Williamstown at this early date had but three residences, that of William Arnold being the most pretentious. It was located near the present residence of McDuffee heirs. The principal residences of the county extended along the Dry Ridge from Crittenden to Hardscrabble. Almost all of the land in the county was owned by non-residents, and all of it was covered by Virginia patents two or three deep, which in later years gave rise to much land litigation, and gave to the Grant County bar a fame throughout the state for the ability and shrewdness of her land lawyers. Louis Myers, who has been called to his reward these many years, was known all over Kentucky as a land grabber, and had in his life time more than a hundred suits in the courts of Grant County alone to test the title to some of the many acres of Grant County he acquired under a dubious or clouded deed. While Mr. Myers was always at law with somebody about the title to a tract of land, he was much beloved by the citizens of the county, and represented them in the Legislature as many as four times.

At this early date one of the objects of note in the county was a large poplar tree that stood near the Baptist Church, now the railroad depot at Dry Ridge. It was nine feet in diameter and it magnificent trunk and branches, towering high about the surrounding. Before it was cut down in 1831, it was known far and near as "the big tree". Another object of note was "the poison spring" situated just north of the village of Sherman on the Newt Kendall farm. The family of Joseph Wheeler, living at the farm now occupied by Joseph Wayland, used the water out of this spring, all taking sick and dying from some cause unknown to them; but since supposed to have been "milk sickness." Many believed that it was the water from the spring that killed them, and hence it took the name of the "poison spring," and for many years it was regarded by the more superstitious and less enlightened people as a dangerous and even fatal place.

The pioneers of Grant County were a sturdy people of a prolific stock and from the day the county was organized it began to grow in numbers and wealth. One of the most historic events of the early days was the passing through the county of the Marquis de Lafayette. He made a tour of the United States in 1824, and came to Kentucky in company with the Post-Master General, Honorable W. T. Barry. On his return from Lexington he passed through Williamstown, remaining over night as the guest of William Arnold, whom he had known as an officer in the war of the Revolution, and who received a severe wound at the battle of Yorktown.

Grant County has continued to grow in wealth and people during all of the eighty-one years of her history. She has met with few calamities and no reverses. From a population of less than 1,200 in 1820 she has grown to 18, 945, as shown by the census taken last June. From her poverty she has grown rich, showing a tax duplicate of approximately $5,000,000, and from a tithe list of 350 she has increased to a tithe list of 3,600. From the rude log cabin in which the pioneers found their homes and raised their families she has progressed to costly, comfortable and well built homes in every part of her territory. From no roads at all and hardly a bridle path that could be called a trail, she can boast at the beginning of the new century of 500 miles of as good macadam turnpike roads as can be found in the South. These roads were all built by taxation, and are today free and in good repair. They represent an investment of almost, if not quite, $1,000,000. She now has a school house on every hill, a church spire pointing to the sky in every neighborhood and her people are moral, industrious and God fearing. Magnificent iron bridges span her water courses.

Twice in her history has Grant County been visited by the bubonic plague, and twice have her home been desolated and her people made to weep for loved ones lost. The first time that cholera made it appearance was in 1832, and its ravages were not staid until many homes were made desolate; again in 1854 this dread monster came and drew his loathsome trail across the doorsteps of some of our best people.

The Grant County of today is a purely agricultural county. It is made up of lovely hills and valleys. The magnificent forest of eighty years ago has fallen beneath the woodman's axe and even the stumps have disappeared. The county contains within its limits almost two hundred thousand acres of land.It is all of limestone foundation with clay formation and a deep black laom covering the clay. There is not, and never was, an acre of naturally poor land in the county. Lying north of Williamstown, and extending to the Boone and Kenton County lines, a distance of eleven miles, and lying on both sides of the Dry Ridge with an average width of from five to ten miles is a scope of country as fine as can be found in any state in the Union. It is covered with fine farms and fine homes. Its blue grass fields are rich in riotous luxury and fine short horns, fine southdown sheep, fine horses, cattle and mules grow into money, while the owners of the soil enjoy the blessing of life. The finest tobacco barns in the work grace that section of the country. The greatest revenue producer in the cereal line in Grant County is the tobacco crop. White burley is grown exclusively, and last year over 6,000,000 pounds was produced and it was sold at an average price of six cents per pound, bringing into the county in actual cash $3000.000.

There has been very little emigration to Grant County since the Civil War. A few Germans of the better class and a few Irish have made up all of the emigrants who have come amongst us. Our people are to "the manor born." Ninety percent of all the people who live in Grant County today were born within the confines of the county. They are sturdy blue-eyed, Anglo-Saxon race. The Grant County boy has wandered, however, all over the world. There is not a state in the Union in which one or more is not located, and wherever you find a Grant County boy who has become a prodigal son it is not in the sense of wasting his substance, he is growing rich or at least bettering his condition on foreign soil. Almost a company of Grant County boys are fighting for the flag in the Philippines, some are in China and Cuba, Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Island.

The county indebtedness of Grant County is $120,000.00. The tax rate is this year 65 cents on the $100. The county has one of the best record office in the state, built at an expense in 1882 of $15,000. It is a handsome building of brick and stone with steel vaults. The courthouse is about fifty years old. The present county jail was erected twelve years ago, and is a fine ornate building of brick, with freestone trimmings, two stories high, with steel cages for prisoners. It was built at an expense of $14,000. The county infirmary was built three years ago and is a good one. The county owns the farm on which it stands, of 150 acres, and paid $50 per acre for it. The buildings cost $7,000 and are new and up-to-date. The infirmary is run on the cooperative plan. Everything belongs to the county; provision and farm products are raised on the farm, the inmates and keeper's family are supplied and the residue sold. Under the present management it is thought within two or three years the institution will be self-sustaining.

In the city of Williamstown there were only three houses in 1820 and they were farm houses and widely scattered. The town was first called Philadelphia, later re-christened Williamstown. The growth of the county seat even after its selection as the county seat was slow and painful. In 1822 there were twenty-five acres of land condemned by Mr. Arnold for the town of Williamstown which was surveyed and laid off in one-fourth acre lots. William Arnold, James Collins, William Littell, Wesley Williams, Samuel Williams, Thomas Watson and Absalom Skirvin were appointed its first Board of Trustees. Several small wooden houses were shortly thereafter erected in the town. The merchant had come and a new era had dawned upon our pioneer fathers.

The growth of Williamstown contains no event of special significance until 1856. At that time there had been erected a row of wooden buildings on either side of Main Street, and there was scarcely a brick building to be seen in the town. A child of Samuel Marksberry was amusing himself in the basement of his father's house by learning some combustible material when the building took fire. The house stood where Alvin Lowe's grocery stands now. The flames spread up and down the street destroying every house and tenement on the west side from where E. T. Cram's grocery now stands to Mill Street, and the east side from J. H. Webbs's store to the residence of Mrs. Lutie Hogan. This was the first fatal disaster to the new town and in a very few hours thirty-five families were rendered homeless. The people, however were not discouraged, money was made up for the suffers at home and in Georgetown, Lexington and Frankfort, and the burnt district was rebuilt in substantial frame and brick buildings. In 1864 the town was again partially destroyed by fire and again the spirit of improvement rebuilt with better and more substantial buildings, and in 1867 another disastrous fire swept away a part of the town, including the flouring mill of Cunningham and Harrison. They rebuilt a splendid brick mill and then the town hall, now known as the Odd Fellow's Temple.

No other disastrous fires occurred in Williamstown until some ten years ago when a fire fiend or fire-bug took it into his head to burn the town; but the volunteer fire company in every instance confined the flames to the building in which the fire originated.These fires brought about the purchase of a first-class fire engine and the organization of the present fire department. At the present Williamstown is fairly well protected from the flames. She has a good volunteer fire department; W. G. O'Hara is the fire chief.

Suffice to say Williamstown has six white churches and one colored and one of the best Graded Free Schools with a high school department in the state. The population of Williamstown as shown by the last census is not large, being only 613, but this is largely accounted for from the fact that her corporate limits are very much contracted. It has been fifty years since her boundaries have been enlarged and at least half of the population of the town is outside of the corporate limits. It would be amiss to say that the real population of Williamstown exceeds twelve hundred souls. There is no better town in the state and may she live long and prosper!

Williamstown Courier, May 30, 1901
Reprinted September 1981
by The Grant County Historical Society



County Date
Formed Parent County County Seat


Adair
1801
Green
Columbia


Allen
1815
Barren, Warren
Scottsville


Anderson
1827
Franklin, Mercer, Washington
Lawrenceburg


Ballard
1842
Hickman, McCracken
Wickliffe


Barren
1798
Green, Warren
Glasgow

1870 Grant co. Ky census-#8-8 ,Ancestry.com image #237



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In a message dated 5/29/2002 4:30:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Cole@@filsonhistorical.org writes:


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Date:5/29/2002 4:30:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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Dear Mr. Smith,

Sorry it took me so long to respond; this is the first day I have been in the office since last Friday. I have searched through all three of our E. Hubbard Smith collections; they are almost 99 1.486010e-313gal papers and letters; I found no similar letters or mentions in any of these letters, compared to the Hubbard Smith letters. Sorry to not turn anything up. Let me know if there is anything else you need.

Jennifer Cole

>>> <Krsmith77@@aol.com> 05/24/02 12:00PM >>>
Hi Jennifer , Thanks for the promp supply of copies of the Hubbard Smith
papers. I would like to ask for another "favor". Also listed are the papers
of a E.H. Smith "Hubbard's nephew". Will you please check for simular papers
of family within EH Smith's papers?........Ken Smith


Thanks for your time & efforts Jennifer. Since there is no family info in the files of E. H SMITH, I have no further request for the time being.....sincerely, Ken Smith


Page No. 184 New Page No. 990
Schedule 1.--Free Inhabitants in Williamstown in the County of Grant State
of Kentucky enumerated by me, on 8/23/1860 . R.H. O'Hara Ass't Marshal
Post Office Williamstown .


Simmons, Eugenia T. 26 F KY
William Mc. 5 M KY
Cora 4 F KY
Lizzie 3 F KY
James E. 8/12 M KY
Simmons, James 70 M MD minister M.E.S. $500
Ellsworth, Albon A. 22 M NY merchant $2600

1265 Smith, Elias H. 32 M KY lawyer $4000 $5600
Sallie C. 29 F KY
Hellen M. 7 F KY
Lucy R. 5 F KY
Kate 3 F KY
James W. 1 M KY


Smith, E. Hubbard WILLIAMSTOWN 601 1870 census grant co

Guardianship: Elizabeth Clark is appointed guardian of Elias Clark and Mary Elizabeth Clark, infant orphans of John N. Clark, they being under the age of 14 years. Security: John R. Smith. February 14, 1848. C-102.

Guardianship: John S. Lucas is appointed guardian of James H. Gouge, minor over the age of 14 years. Security: Manoah Lucas. On the motion of E. H. Smith, attorney for James Gouge, said John S. Lucas was then appointed guardian for John Milton Gouge, Mary Eliza Gouge, and Wm. Taylor Gouge, infant heirs of Wm. T. Gouge, deceased, they being under the age of 14 years. Securities: Monoah Lucas and James M. Little. April 1855. C-611. Page 614 notes that Theodosia Lucas is the late widow of Wm. T. Gouge. They are all involved in a court case against Thos. Jefferson Gouge, garnishee of Cavender Gouge.


State of Kentucky Grant County Court April Term 1848.
I, William Smith, Clerk of the county court for the county aforesaid do certify that the foregoing last will of Archibald Norton, deceased, was produced to court at the term above stated and proven by the oath of C. Ruddell subscribing witness thereto to be the act and deed of the said A. Norton. Whereupon the same was ordered to be recorded which is accordingly done in my office this 3rd day of July 1848. William Smith, Clerk by E. H. Smith, Deputy Clerk.

Mrs. Dr. O. P. HOGAN has filed for divorce from her husband, alleging cruelty, neglect, failure to provide, continual dissipation, and wasting her property [left to her by her late father, Hon. E. H. SMITH].

Death: 6 FEB 1890 Grant Co. Ky

Note: SMITH-BAGBY Bible

Posted by Sandi Gorin on Tue, 04 May 1999

Surname: Smith, Bagby, Hindman, Trevitts

NOTE: I have no connection and no further information.
Bible was later in possession of Dr. Bob Hindman of Russellville, KY.

Reuben Smith born March 26th 1809.
Margaret Smith born Sept. 28th 1810.
John R. Smith born Jan. 11th 1812.
Sydney Smith born Sept. 25th 1813.
William Smith born April 1st 1815.
Joseph Smith born Oct. 26th 1816.
Granville Smith born Feb. 16th 1818.
Daniel Smith born Jan. 12th 1820.
Elizabeth Smith born Aug. 30th 1821.
Lydia Ann Smith born Apr 30th 1824.
Malinda Smith born Nov. 24th 1825.
Elias H. Smith born Dec. 11th 1827.
One deceased daughter born 1829.
Katharine B. Smith born Feb. 11th 1831.
Zerilda Smith born Jan. 9th 1833.
Sophia L. Smith born April 4th 1836.
The above named children were children of Elias & Elizabeth Smith of Barren Co Ky.

W. W. Bagby born July 24th 1824.
Catharine B. Smith [Bagby] born Feb. 1st 1831.
Children:

Mary Moss Bagby born Oct. 15th 1851.
Ellen Bagby born Aug. 24th 1853.
Henry Bagby born Decr. 13th 1854.
Elizabeth Bagby born June 11 1857.
William Waller Bagby born September 16, 1861.

W. W. Bagby was elected Captain of Co. F 6th Reg. Orphans Brigade Nov. 19th 1861. Was wounded at this battle of Shiloh April 7 1862. He died of his wounds at the home of Mr. Ed Trevitts, Okolona, Miss. July 7, 1862.



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Death: 3 JAN 1900 Hiseville, Ky.

Burial: Hiseville Cemetery

Note: SMITH-BAGBY Bible

Posted by Sandi Gorin on Tue, 04 May 1999

Surname: Smith, Bagby, Hindman, Trevitts

NOTE: I have no connection and no further information.
Bible was later in possession of Dr. Bob Hindman of Russellville, KY.

Reuben Smith born March 26th 1809.
Margaret Smith born Sept. 28th 1810.
John R. Smith born Jan. 11th 1812.
Sydney Smith born Sept. 25th 1813.
William Smith born April 1st 1815.
Joseph Smith born Oct. 26th 1816.
Granville Smith born Feb. 16th 1818.
Daniel Smith born Jan. 12th 1820.
Elizabeth Smith born Aug. 30th 1821.
Lydia Ann Smith born Apr 30th 1824.
Malinda Smith born Nov. 24th 1825.
Elias H. Smith born Dec. 11th 1827.
One deceased daughter born 1829.
Katharine B. Smith born Feb. 11th 1831.
Zerilda Smith born Jan. 9th 1833.
Sophia L. Smith born April 4th 1836.
The above named children were children of Elias & Elizabeth Smith of Barren Co Ky.

W. W. Bagby born July 24th 1824.
Catharine B. Smith [Bagby] born Feb. 1st 1831.
Children:

Mary Moss Bagby born Oct. 15th 1851.
Ellen Bagby born Aug. 24th 1853.
Henry Bagby born Decr. 13th 1854.
Elizabeth Bagby born June 11 1857.
William Waller Bagby born September 16, 1861.

W. W. Bagby was elected Captain of Co. F 6th Reg. Orphans Brigade Nov. 19th 1861. Was wounded at this battle of Shiloh April 7 1862. He died of his wounds at the home of Mr. Ed Trevitts, Okolona, Miss. July 7, 1862.



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Notes: ELIAS SMITH willed SIDNEY a slave named GEORGE.