Individual Details
Everett SMITH Jr
(Abt 1780 - )
Name also shown as Everette. Moved from North Carolina to Georgia. All of their children were born in Georgia, except the youngest who was born in Mississippi.
An interesting aspect if you aren't already aware of it. Mr. John Paul Smith - I see he is on your list of sources, I was lucky enough to meet him in one of the Miss. public libraries, I think it was the one in Lawrence Co. but it could have been Lincoln - mentioned to me the information on "The Nathan Smith 100" and when I expressed great interest he was kind enough to mail me a copy of the document in question. This is all from memory so don't hold me to details but if you don't have this and want it, I will look up my copy. In brief, quite a number of families settled along the GA border in the very early 1800s. They thought, honestly in most cases, that they were settling on public land. But the land was almost entirely on the Cherokee Indian reservation and the Indians complained numerous times about these settlers. Eventually, and it was a struggle that went on for several years, most of the settlers left their homes by force and moved to other areas. Some would leave and then go back first time they had a chance. The U.S. Army had the job of forcing them to remove, which caused a lot of bad feelings.
The Indians did allow a few families to remain - these were either families who had been there longest and made friends with the Indians or in some cases had already intermarried.
There were names of 100 heads of families on the final list and in some fashion a Nathan Smith was the leader of the group although it would be a mistake to see this as one unified group of people since they came from widely varying locations and over a period of time. The list is broken into three or four groupings, with the people who arrived first int he first group, the last ones in the last group, etc. Nathan was one of the first. Everett is in the last group but not no. 100 - but he obviusly was one of the later arrivals.
Eventually Nathan Smith gave up and moved all the way to Miss. to settle. He must have been a real leader because a number of the other families moved with him or if not actually with him, to the same area. Many others also moved west but not to Miss. or not the same part of Miss.
There are other Smiths on the list of 100. I couldn't determne whether some of Everett's brothers were included. I did not check for Furrs because at the time I was not aware of the connection (and still not sure of it) but I can do so once I put my hands on the documents.
These are all official U.S. Govt. documents so I think the documentation is pretty good as far as it goes.
I do not know if this is the same Everett Smith:
Everett Smith was murdered in Yazoo Co., MS in 1837. His father has been identified as Eli Smith. The murder was written up in the Yazoo Co. Newspaper and reported in Vol 8, Feb 1985 of Family Trails, a genealogy journal published by the Historical and Genealogical Society of MS, on page 130, as follows: "$500 REWARD for apprehension and delivery of John W Moseley, one of the murderers of Everett Smith of Yazoo Co on the night of 2 July 1837 near this place. The said Moseley is between 25 & 30 yrs of age, full six feet high, well proportioned, rather a down look and coarse harsh voice; dark sandy hair inclined to be red, with a small scar supposed to be on the left side of his face; also a scar on the right side of his head a little behind his ear, which may be easily discovered when his hat is off. He has been employed as an overseer for some time in this vicinity. Joseph J Pugh, Will D Hart, Wm S Rayner, Will Hines all of Livingston, MS. plus W. Hause, the other accomplice in the murder is now confined in jail in Canton, Madison Co., MS."
An interesting aspect if you aren't already aware of it. Mr. John Paul Smith - I see he is on your list of sources, I was lucky enough to meet him in one of the Miss. public libraries, I think it was the one in Lawrence Co. but it could have been Lincoln - mentioned to me the information on "The Nathan Smith 100" and when I expressed great interest he was kind enough to mail me a copy of the document in question. This is all from memory so don't hold me to details but if you don't have this and want it, I will look up my copy. In brief, quite a number of families settled along the GA border in the very early 1800s. They thought, honestly in most cases, that they were settling on public land. But the land was almost entirely on the Cherokee Indian reservation and the Indians complained numerous times about these settlers. Eventually, and it was a struggle that went on for several years, most of the settlers left their homes by force and moved to other areas. Some would leave and then go back first time they had a chance. The U.S. Army had the job of forcing them to remove, which caused a lot of bad feelings.
The Indians did allow a few families to remain - these were either families who had been there longest and made friends with the Indians or in some cases had already intermarried.
There were names of 100 heads of families on the final list and in some fashion a Nathan Smith was the leader of the group although it would be a mistake to see this as one unified group of people since they came from widely varying locations and over a period of time. The list is broken into three or four groupings, with the people who arrived first int he first group, the last ones in the last group, etc. Nathan was one of the first. Everett is in the last group but not no. 100 - but he obviusly was one of the later arrivals.
Eventually Nathan Smith gave up and moved all the way to Miss. to settle. He must have been a real leader because a number of the other families moved with him or if not actually with him, to the same area. Many others also moved west but not to Miss. or not the same part of Miss.
There are other Smiths on the list of 100. I couldn't determne whether some of Everett's brothers were included. I did not check for Furrs because at the time I was not aware of the connection (and still not sure of it) but I can do so once I put my hands on the documents.
These are all official U.S. Govt. documents so I think the documentation is pretty good as far as it goes.
I do not know if this is the same Everett Smith:
Everett Smith was murdered in Yazoo Co., MS in 1837. His father has been identified as Eli Smith. The murder was written up in the Yazoo Co. Newspaper and reported in Vol 8, Feb 1985 of Family Trails, a genealogy journal published by the Historical and Genealogical Society of MS, on page 130, as follows: "$500 REWARD for apprehension and delivery of John W Moseley, one of the murderers of Everett Smith of Yazoo Co on the night of 2 July 1837 near this place. The said Moseley is between 25 & 30 yrs of age, full six feet high, well proportioned, rather a down look and coarse harsh voice; dark sandy hair inclined to be red, with a small scar supposed to be on the left side of his face; also a scar on the right side of his head a little behind his ear, which may be easily discovered when his hat is off. He has been employed as an overseer for some time in this vicinity. Joseph J Pugh, Will D Hart, Wm S Rayner, Will Hines all of Livingston, MS. plus W. Hause, the other accomplice in the murder is now confined in jail in Canton, Madison Co., MS."
Events
| Birth | Abt 1780 | Cumberland County, NC | |||
| Marriage | Living |
Families
| Spouse | Living |
| Child | Harbard SMITH (1812 - 1885) |
| Father | Everett SMITH (1751 - 1822) |
| Mother | Elizabeth FURR (1758 - 1827) |
| Sibling | William SMITH (1775 - 1866) |
| Sibling | Isaac SMITH (1776 - 1833) |
| Sibling | Nathan SMITH (1777 - 1843) |
| Sibling | Levi SMITH (1779 - ) |
| Sibling | Eli SMITH (1787 - 1872) |