Individual Details

Daughter of John & Frances "Fanny" Harrington.
Married David Smith about 1790 in South Carolina.
They had 4 children. David died about 1806 when the children were ages 2-14.
Barsheba then married a widower, Thomas Lusk about 1810 in South Carolina. They had two more children, Caroline & Permelia. Thomas died 3 Jan 1826 in Lincoln County, Tennessee.
A Barsheba Lusk had a land grant in 1856 in Cooke County, Texas, but there are no other records found for her there, so it is unknown where Barsheba Harrington Smith Lusk died and is buried. Windle family records state that she died in 1841.
Much of the following information is from the research of Ken Smith.
David and Barsheba Smith are found in the 1790 Federal Census of York County, Camden District, South Carolina.

#030 David Smith
1 free white male over 16 years (David Smith)
1 free white female (Bersheba Harrington)

In ten years three of their four children had been born and they are found in the 1800 Federal Census of Union District, South Carolina. The location may be due to a boundary change or they may have moved.

#240 David Smith
1 male under 10 years (James Smith)
1 male 16 to 26 years (James 'Gideon' Smith, son of Gideon Smith?
or John Smith, son of Daniel Smith?)
1 male 26 to 45 years (David Smith)
2 females under 10 years (Frances Smith, Delilah Smith)
1 female 26 to 45 years (Bershaba Harrington)
2 slaves

In the Texas General Land Office records there is a unconditional Class 2 headright land grant of 1280 acres (No. 77) to Barsheba Lusk in Rusk County, Texas on 4 August 1844, signed by George W. Smyth, it stated that she arrived in Texas in 1836.
A Barsheba Lusk received a duplicate in 1856 in Cooke County, Texas on the headwaters of Fish Creek about 18 1/2 miles west from the town of Gainsville, Texas. The second one was part of the Hugh Sarles old grant. Adjacent plats belonged to H. Sarles, Francis Hamilton, and Kuykendall. Francis Hamilton may be her son-in-law and related to another son-in-law, Andrew Hamilton. On the 1837, 1838, and 1839 tax list of Nacogdoches County, Texas (Rusk County was carved out of Nacogdoches County) was a Barsheba Lusk and in 1840, James Smith was her agent as well as agent for the heirs of F. Hamilton.
Caroline Lusk Hamilton Davis died after July 1, 1852 when she made her will, she left her late-husband's (Francis Hamilton) headright to their children, James and Mary. She left her homestead that she had inherited from her mother, Barsheba Lusk, to William C. Davis. (Remembering Rusk County, by Rusk County Genealogical Society, John R. Dulin, President, Curtis Media Corporation, 1992)
In 1852 Parmelia Windle died and was buried in the Davis Cemetery. Her sister, Caroline had also died in 1852 and was buried in the Davis Cemetery. Their mother was recorded in Rusk County Deed Book B as Barsheba Lusk. The book was destroyed when the courthouse was burned in 1860 but the index still exists. On 5 April 1841, General James Smith made a bond to John A. Windle and William C. Davis. In it he states he will make title to a piece of land for the wives of Windle and Davis, Parmelia and Caroline. General Smith paid taxes on the land until the estate was settled. The land was through a donation grant through Henry Smith. When Caroline Lusk Davis died in 1852, H. M. Smith (son of James Smith or James Smith's brother, Henry) was the executor of her estate and James Smith and John Windle were witnesses to her will.

Birth	1773	South Carolina
Marriage	By 1790	Union County, South Carolina - David Smith
Death	1841	Texas
Burial		Rusk County, Texas

Spouse	David Smith (1761 - 1806)
Child	Gen. James Smith (1792 - 1854)

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