Monday, March 11, 2013

More Cousin Help!


I received more help in the form of more Family Oral History related about Robert Cade Smith, typewritten by one of his Grandchildren in 1985, Rae Smith, Daughter of Andrew Perry Smith and Flora Gertrude Gilbreath as told by another Grandchild, Effie [Smith] Hays, Daughter of Ira Newman Smith and Francis Mandanie Clark, from information she received from Murat [Smith] in 1964.
































So, my extrapolation of this information is:

Murat [Smith] (1901-1982) [Son of Andrew Perry Smith and Flora Gertrude (Gilbreath) Smith] believed:
Robert Cade Smith and wife Jane Ann Newman Smith came from Kentucky to Champaign, Illinois in 1877 [maybe 1857 or earlier, since that is the year Henrietta Smith was born and died].
A baby girl, Henrietta Smith died and is buried in Champaign [City or County?, Illinois].
They then moved to Independence, Kansas or Missouri???
From there, they moved to Savoy, [Washington County, Arkansas] near Fayetteville.
Robert Cade Smith built the barn on the Andy Howe Place on Highway 16, West of Fayetteville circa 1879.
Then they moved to Oak Grove, near Springdale [Washington County, Arkansas].
Our father, A[ndrew] Perry Smith, went to school in Springdale, maybe to a Mr Dodson.  Andrew Perry Smith went to Lutheran Sunday School in Springdale.
Then the [Robert Cade Smith] family moved to Crawford County, North of Alma and lived in the Chester, [Crawford County], Ark[ansas] area among the Shipley's.  Dad A[ndrew] Perry [Smith] remembers an older man, Jim Shipley, and Uncle of Garvin Shipley.
Uncle Arch (Archie [Archibald] Greenville Smith) was born in 1877, somewhere in Crawford County, Arkansas.
Grandfather Robert Cade Smith, died 1883 [1888, per Scrap of Paper "Family Record"], and is buried in a cemetery, which is South and West of Mountainburg, Arkansas.
Murat [Smith] remembers Daddy (A[ndrew Perry Smith]), saying that George Ferrell, the husband of [Susan] Medora [Madora] Smith Ferrell, carved a headstone for Grandfather [Robert Cade Smith] on a big sand rock.

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