Josiah SMITH & Nancy STANLEY
Father: Josiah SMITH, (son of Harbard Herbert SMITH), b. 12 Dec 1781, Pittslyvania County Virginia, d. 21 Apr 1837, Grainger County Tennessee
Josiah Smith info on birth comes from a very well done Ancestral file on FamilySearch, Marriage info comes from World Connect project info. Josiah's son Josiah Jr. processes a will in Grainger County this details his children and some of their husbands last names. Copy of will reads as follows. SMITH, Josiah, planter. To be intered at Rutledge; the land where I now live and tract where Calvin HUDDLESTON and Coleman CEMORE now live; the field negroes GRACE, SAM and CHARLES, these I have moved with the other two ESTER and FRANK is yet in the Alabama state of my father, deceased; “to be used by her in her widowhood”; sons John, Josiah, James; land purchased from Jacob VANDAGRIFF; daughters Polly HUDDLESTON, Lucy CEMORE, Dorcus HUDDLESTON and Nancy SMITH my youngest. Beloved wife Nancy SMITH, Extrix. Signed Josiah SMITH, 19 Apr 1837. Witnesses: J.B. BUTCHER, Allen HURST, Thomas BLACKBOURN. Recorded 6 Jun 1837, E. TATE, Clerk. Inventory signed 7 Aug 1837, recorded 16 Aug 1837. Settlement signed 20 Sep 1839, recorded 16 Nov 1839. Josiah fought in the War of 1812 Note: the Word Planter indicates that he was what they called Planters in Virginia or original settlers. .In a World Connect file for the Condrays Nancy Stanley's first husband, her second husband Josiah is listed as Scotch Irish , which means he was one of the Scottish settlers first sent to Ireland , so the English could get rid of problematic Scottish or rich Scottish could take Irish land away from Catholics. No telling which one Josiahs family was. However, I have always heard that term since childhood and assumed the Seymour line was quote “Scotch Irish” however , it probably comes from the paternal line of Nancy Stanley as the Seymours and all Seymour genealogists in this line have reckoned with this are English. Note that Scotch Irish is often mistaken to mean half Scottish and half Irish it is not.
Mother: Nancy STANLEY, (daughter of Isaac STANLEY), b. 5 Jan 1782, Pittslyvania County Virginia, d. 17 Nov 1847, Grainger County Tennessee
Married 8 Oct 1813, Grainger County Tennessee
Children:
- Mary "Polly" SMITH, b. ABT 1814, Grainger County Tennessee
- Dorcus SMITH, b. ABT 1816, Grainger County Tennessee, d. Grainger County Tennessee
- Levica "Lucy" SMITH, b. 1818, Grainger TN, d. AFT 1895, Jackson County Missouri
- James B SMITH, b. ABT 1820, Grainger County Tennessee
- John Anderson SMITH, b. 11 Dec 1822, Grainger County Tennessee, d. 10 Dec 1895, Union County Tennessee
- Nancy SMITH, b. 2 May 1824, Grainger County Tennessee, d. 20 Aug 1880, Union County Tennessee
- Josiah Jr SMITH, b. 10 Jul 1826, Grainger County Tennessee