History of Fentress County, Tennessee, Albert R. Hogue. Originally published Nashville, Tenn, 1916. Reprinted by Baltimore Regional Publishing Company, 1975, pp. 99-100 [Clinton county] MRS. MARTHA ELLEN (SMITH) McDONALD. 1818. Parents: Philip Smith (1769-1865) and Emily (Atkinson) Smith. Grandparents: Owen Atkinson and Agnes (Goad) Atkinson, George Smith and Rebecca (Bowen) Smith. Mrs. McDonald's mother came to Kentucky from West Virginia, then called New Virginia, at the age of twelve, her grandfather and grandmother George and Rebecca Smith having been killed the year before by the Indians. Rebecca Smith came from Ireland the year that Tennessee was settled (1769). The famous preacher, "Raccoon" John Smith, who was associated with Alexander Campbell in the early history of the Campbellite Church, was an uncle of Mrs. McDonald. Mrs. McDonald was born in Kentucky and came to Tennessee with her parents when she was eight years old and settled on Wolf River. She was married to William B. McDonald in 1839. He was of a pioneer Overton County family, his father having crossed the ocean when a boy and settled near old Monroe in Overton County. W. B. was a soldier in the Florida War in 1837; he was a double cousin of Judge A. O. W. Totten. He died in 1863. Mrs. McDonald had ten brothers and two sisters, all of whom are dead. She has made four trips to the West to visit her sons in Nebraska. One of these trips was made at the age of 74, one at 86 and another at 90. She has eight sons. Mrs. Ben Moody, of Forus, and Mrs. Lute Smith, at Jamestown, are her daughters. She never attended a free school, but attended subscription schools. There were no free schools until long after she was married. She has a wonderful memory and is well informed. She saw the Indians as they were being removed to lands west of the Mississippi. She remembers the Indian squaws as they passed by with their papooses straped to their backs. She was then living near Albany, KY. Smith McDonald Atkinson Goad Bowen Campbell Totten Moody = WV Ireland Overton-TN FL NE http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/clinton/mcdonald.me.txt