JOEL SMITH FAMILY BIBLE

Provided for use by Charles Barnum ([email protected])

Per Mr. Barnum's request, this Bible record is Public Domain. 

Joel Smith Bible from Doris Gleason's files (1997).  The bible is now in possession of Mrs. C. R. Kendrick of Sweet Water, Texas.  Sent by Emma Barrett Reeves of Nacogdoches, Texas.  Emma was aged ninety-five in 1997.  Typed by Charles Barnum, 21 July 1997.  This bible may have originated in Morgan County, Georgia and was handed down and added to through the generations.

Births  -  Deaths:

Joel T. Smith    16 October 1787    8 March 1823

Elizabeth J. Bedell     24 September 1794    26 December 1871

Frances Smith        19 April 1811        14 May 1828

George Smith        24 May 1812

Nancy Smith        13 October 1813

Martha Smith        15 May 1815

Henry B. Smith     27 January 1817

Amelia R. Smith    26 July 1819

Maria Smith        6 December 1820

Margaret Smith    17 September 1822    25 August 1855

Frances L. Thompson    2 March 1828 Daughter of Seaborn J. Thompson and Frances Smith

Marriages:

Margaret Smith married Yarbrough

Joel T. Smith married Elizabeth J. Bedell     22 April 1810

Seaborn J. Thompson married Francis Smith    2 November 1826

Andrew Huling married Martha K. Smith    8 July 1830

Micajah Bedell married Nancy Smith    18 October 1831

George Smith married Nancy C. Wilburn    8 January 1835

Births and Deaths:

Henry R. Yarbrough    7 March 1842    8 April 1863

James Yarbrough    27 December 1843    4 September 1864

Francis P. Yarbrough    24 January 1845

Mary Bacon Yarbrough    16 March 1847    26 July 1933

Laura A. Yarbrough        16 February 1848

John F. Yarbrough        22 May 1851

Elvira H. Yarbrough    25 January 1853    30 September 1853

Robert T. Yarbrough    25 June 1854        11 December 1874

Millard Yarbrough        13 April 1856

M. J. Lafayette Yarbrough    4 July 1858    15 September 1830 (sic)

(End of Bible Recording)

Note:  Seaborn Thompson moved to Troup County, Georgia about 1830 after the death of his wife possibly in Washington, Walton, Morgan Newton or Wilkes County, Georgia.  His brother William H. Thompson lived in Jasper County Georgia and is buried in Newton County.  Some Yarbrough family members moved to Harris County, Georgia.  The Andrew Huling family lived in Harris County, Georgia.  The Smith family lived in Wilkes County, Georgia.