Nathan Foster Smith

1800 - 1866  (66 years)

• Name	Nathan Foster Smith
  Birth	ca 1800	Wilkes Co, Georgia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Census	1820	Wilkes Co, Georgia, USA
  	9/165 shows 2 males 16-26, one male 16-18, one male 10-16
  Census	1830	Newton Co, Georgia, USA
  	20/032 shows 1 male 30-40, 1 female 20-30, 1 male under 5; no slaves, John Evans listed on same page.
  Census	1840	Morgan Co, Georgia, USA
  	47/228 shows 1 male 30-40, 1 female 20-30, 1 male 10-15, 1 male under 5, 1 female 10-15.
  Census	1850	Cherokee Co, Alabama, USA
  	3/006, age 40; farmer, real estate worth $100.
  Census	1860	Pulaski Co, Arkansas, USA
  	Duncan twp, p 134
  Death	Dec 1866	Pulaski Co, Arkansas, USA
  Person ID	I10140	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	24 Mar 2017

  
  

  Father	Nathan Smith,   b. 9 Mar 1751, Craven Co, North Carolina, British America d. 30 Apr 1816, Wilkes Co, Georgia, USA (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Sarah Foster,   b. 13 Dec 1765, Craven Co, North Carolina, British America d. 6 Nov 1820, Wilkes Co, Georgia, USA (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	ca 1782	Wilkes Co, Georgia, USA
  Family ID	F4060	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Evans,   b. ca 1809, Clarke Co, Georgia, USA d. Feb 1873, Pulaski Co, Arkansas, USA (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	ca 1827	Newton Co, Georgia, USA
  Children	+ 1. John Augustus Smith,   b. 16 Nov 1828, Newton Co, Georgia, USA d. 18 Nov 1897, Corsicana, Navarro Co, Texas, USA (Age 69 years)   2. Frances Smith,   b. ca 1833, Newton Co, Georgia, USA d. ca 1866, Pulaski Co, Arkansas, USA (Age 33 years)   3. George W. Smith,   b. ca 1835   d. ca 1862, Lauderdale Spring, Lauderdale Co, Mississippi, USA (Age 27 years)   4. Sidney Smith,   b. ca 1838   d. ca 1859 (Age 21 years) + 5. Rev Francis Marion Smith,   b. 17 Sep 1841, Newton Co, Georgia, USA d. 28 Apr 1924, Batesville, Independence Co, Arkansas, USA (Age 82 years)   6. Mary Ann Smith,   b. ca 1845   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F4079	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Census - 3/006, age 40; farmer, real estate worth $100. - 1850 - Cherokee Co, Alabama, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  According to an account left by his son, Francis Marion Smith, Nathan Foster Smith "did not write or keep any accounts" and lost track of his year of birth. The same account states that N.F. Smith had a great deal of sickness as a child and, as soon as his father and mother had died (the latter in 1820) N.F. Smith left Wilkes County and moved to "middle Georgia". While N.F. Smith received several legacies of cash and land under the Will of his father, Nathan Smith, he did not appear to have prospered. When he moved to Newton County in about 1821, he may have been encouraged to do so by his aunt, Elizabeth (Zechie) Smith, who had married William Chaffin, Jr. and moved to Walton (later Newton) County shortly before that time. According to his son, Francis Marion Smith, after his daughter Frances and her husband John F. Clifton moved to Arkansas in the Fall of 1857, Nathan Foster Smith and his wife followed in March of 1858. They settled in Pulaski County, Arkansas, 25 miles north of Little Rock. The country was unhealthy, and the family had much sickness. After the War Nathan's health was broken, and he died in December 1866. [Source: Frances Marion Smith, is the source of the only first-hand information we have about the Smith family, resulting from two letters he wrote to his niece, Annie Thompson Smith, in 1908.] The Centennial History of Arkansas Methodism, 1815-1935, contains a brief biography of Frances Marion Smith. He joined the Confederate Army in June 1862 and served until the end of the War.