TX Family Groupsheet for James Monroe SMITH Family

Submitted by: Daniel Bode
Email address: danielbode@prodgy.net

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Husband: James Monroe SMITH
Birthdate: October 5, 1851
Birthplace: Tallapoosa Co., Alabama
Death date: September 27, 1915
Place of death: Livingston, Polk Co., Texas
Father: Seaborn SMITH
Mother: Elizabeth GOODWIN

Marriage date: December 26, 1883
Marriage place: Polk Co., Texas

Wife: Georgia  Ann CANON
Birthdate: December 15, 1861
Birthplace: Polk Co., Texas
Death date: April 12, 1944
Place of death: Houston, Harris Co., Texas
Father: Robert Taylor CANON
Mother: Amanda Louisa BEARD

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Robert Taylor "Bob" SMITH
Sex: M
Birthdate: May 15, 1885
Birthplace: Polk Co., Texas
Death date: August 1, 1960
Place of death: Livingston, Polk Co., Texas
Marriage date: August 1, 1911
Marriage place: Polk Co., Texas
Spouse's name: Margaret McLEOD


Child No. 2: E. Roy SMITH
Sex: M
Birthdate: February 11, 1888
Birthplace: Polk Co., Texas
Death date: December 14, 1913
Place of death: Trinidad Islands
Marriage date: 
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: None


Child No. 3: Cordia Ethel SMITH
Sex: F
Birthdate: February 14, 1891
Birthplace: Polk Co., Texas
Death date: July 16, 1957
Place of death: Houston, Harris Co., Texas
Marriage date: August 1, 1917
Marriage place: Houston, Texas
Spouse's name: John Alfred REIDLAND


Child No. 4: Louella SMITH
Sex: F
Birthdate: August 15, 1894
Birthplace: Polk Co., Texas
Death date: January 18, 1974
Place of death: Houston, Harris Co., Texas
Marriage date: February 1, 1922
Marriage place: Houston, Texas
Spouse's name: David TURNER


Child No. 5: Nan Elizabeth SMITH
Sex: 
Birthdate: July 1898
Birthplace: Polk Co., Texas
Death date: May 25, 1980
Place of death: Houston, Harris Co., Texas
Marriage date: 
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: Mr. JOHNSON


Documentation: *Monroe and Georgia Smith's son, E. Roy Smith, worked for
an oil company.  He died of yellow fever in the Trinidad Islands.  His
remains reached Galveston, Tx. on Jan. 9, 1914 and he was buried in
Leggett, Polk Co., Tx. on Jan. 10, 1914.
*Monroe and Georgia's daughter, Nan, did not marry until after her
mother's death in 1944.
Sources: Johnnie Oates Robinson, Margaret Oates Pennington, Grace Oates
Davidson, and Emma Griffin Hilton.
Records in Polk County Courthouse, Livingston, Texas, and in Harris
County Courthouse, Houston, Texas.
Tombstone inscriptions in Jones Prairie Cemetery, Leggett, Texas