Smith

By William Micajah Spencer: The name "Smith" is derived from the Saxon word "Smitan" meaning to smite, and early came to be applied to workers in metals of various kinds, such as gold and silver, cooper and iron. The Smiths should be proud of their surnames, for the "Smiter" with his hammer was an important man in his community, not only was he a man of superior physical strength, but also he was a man of superior intelligence, whose ingenuity devised and whose skill fabricated not only ornaments and jewelry for the enjoyment of the people, but also utensils and weapons essential to the life of the community when at peace and to its protection in times of war. From the earliest times, the organized activities of people in every part of the world have required such services as were rendered by the Smith, who of course, in different tribes and nations was known by a different name some word which had an equivalent meaning in the language used. The great importance of the Smith is recorded in the Bible in I Samuel, Chapter 13 verse 9 in the following words "Now there was no smith found throughout the land of Israel for the Philistines said lest the Hebrews make them swords and spears. In other words the Philistines disarmed the Israelites by forbidding them to have smiths. ---- Every Chief and King had his Smith

John Smith b ca 1699 d wp 7 Jan 1741 wp 5 Aug 1741 PACo., VA db 6 page 45, Inventory Db 6 page 67 md Mary Whitehurst d/o Richard Whitehurst (deed of gift 25 May 1753 to John Smith's children, Mary md 2nd John Knowis
1. James Smyth (eldest) b 1721 d before 1774 md Mary was the father of Alexander and John Smith, James Plantation at Creeds Creek
2. William Smyth b 1723 d before 1774 no issue 1/2 land in Linhaven
3. Mary Smyth b 1727 md 1st John Whitehurst md 2nd 1754/55 Francis Land d by 1774
4. John Smyth b 1725 d by 1774 1/2 land in Linhaven no issue
5. Amy Smyth b 1729 md after 1753 Richard Doudge wp 5 Sept
6. Elizabeth (Betty) Smith b 1731 md 1st William Whitehurst, md 2nd George Cox
7. Frances Smith b 1733
8. Keziah Smith b by 1738 md after 1753 John Fentress wd 22 Aug 1794 wp 5 Sept 1803 wb 2 page 222 s/o John T. Fentress and Letisha Hopkins

James Smith, Jr. and Anna Dudley
1. James Smith b 10 April 1809 Currituck, NC md 1848 Letitia Grimstead b 4 Feb 1829 d/o Thomas Grimstead b 1783 md 28 Sept 1803 Elizabeth Ackiss James not on the 1870 census (Bible record says James mother was Mary there was a big difference in dates of children 1806, 1812, 1823, 1829 and 1830 so probably another marriage)
2. Dudley Smith wd 16 April 1838 wp May 1838 md Sally, states his present children will inherit.

James Smith and Letitia Grimstead
1. Mary Ann Smith b 31 May 1849 d 16 Dec 1892 md 8 July 1866 Joachium J. Beasley b 8 Mar 1842 (orphan in 1850 census) d 26 Sept 1885 burial at family grave yard on Woodleigh Road. Joachium enlisted B Co 61st Reg 8 Aug 1861. On the Virginia in Civil War 1862 Serial No C. J. R R 181. Joachium J. Beasley sells land that belonged to Jacob Litchfield dec'd. Grandson of Michael Waterfield and Lydia Litchfield (Michael Waterfield's will wd 19 Jan 1855 wp 7 Feb 1856 wp 4 page 203 Currtuck, NC
2. Byancy Smith b Ju-- 1851 md ----Shepherd a son John Shepherd
3. William J. Smith b 12 April 1854 d 10 June 1918 md before 1880 Emma Jane (Emiline or Lina) Bowden b 1862 d 6 Feb 1904 d/o Timothy Bowden and Mary Frances Beasley William md 2nd Ella Waterfield. Ella md 2nd Charles Washington Grimstead. Stories say she worked for William E. Bonney and Sue. Sue beat her and was very mean to her. Her brothers John Taylor Waterfield and Samuel Devaney Waterfield (Preacher). She was much younger that William J. Smith
4. Arseneth Smith b 12 April 1857 d 20 July 1925 md Dec 1879 Joachium Jones b 31 Aug 1857 d 6 Dec 1939 s/o Cornelius Edward Jones and Lydia Ann Waterfield
5. Branson Smith b 29 Nov 1859 d 24 Sept 1864
6. Millard Lynn Smith (from bible) b 29 Aug 1862 d 1945
(another boy not named nor date listed in bible)

Mary Ann Smith and Joachium Beasley
1. Alice Virginia Beasley b 17 Nov 1867 d 14 April 1955 md 14 Jan 1886 Cornelius Edward Jones b 13 Sept 1867, d 22 June 19352 s/o Cornelius Edward Jones and Lydia Ann Waterfield. He was a farmer
2. Infant b 22 Oct 1869 d 22 Oct 1869
3. John Calvin Beasley b 15 Oct 1871 (bible 71 tombstone 72) d 27 Feb 1957 md Lydia Estelle (Stella) Whitehurst b 27 Jan 1878 d 30 Dec 1957 d/o James Whitehurst and Nancy Simpson
4. Walter Leroy Beasley b 5 May 1876 d April 1953 md 17 July 1904 Susan Elizabeth Litchfield (one of triplets b 19 Aug 1888 d 1968 d/o Jessie D. Litchfield and Lenora Scott
5. Ann S. Beasley b 14 April 1878 d 16 July 1883 Currituck, NC buried Cason Point Road and Woodleigh Rd.
6. Millard James Beasley b 21 Oct 1883.
7. Annie F. Beasley b 11 Oct 1883 d 2 July 1965 md 28 Dec 1902 David B. Waterfield b 24 Nov 1880 d 27 Nov1943 s/o David Waterfield and Lydia Cooper.

Arseneth Smith and Joachium Beasley Jones
1. Hettie Jones b 1881 d 1965 md 1 June 1901 Alma Jarvis Poyner b 6 Aug 1867 d 25 Sept 1942 s/o Edmond Dunston Poyner and Autinzer Jarvis (Hortense), children Marvin Olney b 1905 d 1956 md Ernestine Hopkins of Long Island, NY, Hortense Arseneth Poyner b 3 Oct 1910 md 24 Dec 1924 Charles Parkerson
2. Gertie Jones b 6 Nov 1882 md 1902 Rudie James Bonney b 12 Nov 1881 d 24 Feb 1957 s/o William E. Bonney and Sue, child Hal James Bonney d 10 Sept 1980 md Mary Ellen Shackelford
3. Caddie Berryman Jones b 5 July 1884 d 19 Dec 1949 md 1913 Herbert H. Bonney b Oct 1893 d 28 Sept 1971 s/o Ferdinand Bonney and Vandelia Williams, children Travis Bonney, Thurston J. Bonney b 1916 and Peggy Ann b 21 Jan 1927 md 31 July 1953 James Kiracofe
4. Addie Butts Jones b 5 July 1885 md 1908 Roy White

Amy Smith and Richard Doudge
1. Nathan Doudge md Mary Bright
2. Richard Doudge wd Feb 1825 wp 7 July 1825 wb 3 page 186 Currituck, NC, md 21 June 1788 Anna Peary
3. Henry Doudge md Anna Brown
4. Elizabeth (Betsy) Doudge md ---Bonney had a daughter Amy
5. Lovy Doudge md 14 may 1788 John Whitehurst
6. Batson Doudge md 14 Oct 1795 Sally Scott, md 2nd Frances Hunt
7. Elias Doudge bd 1829
8. Amy Doudge md ---Worden
9. Susannah Doudge db 16 page 129 and wb 3 page 232 Currituck, NC

Keziah Smith and John Fentress
1. Major Fentress wb 3 page 339 wd 6 May 1822 wp 16 April 1824 md 14 Nov 1801 Elizabeth Rainey d/o Thomas Rainey wb 1 page 124 wd 24 Feb 1785 wp 9 July 1789 will says divide between all my children (found no chancery suit)
2. Jeremiah Fentress d 1 Dec 1816 wp 5 Feb 1816 wb 3 page 181 md 8 Jan 1788 Jacamine Whitehurst
3. Isiah Fentress md 13 April 1787 Fanny Green
4. Emanuel Fentress wb 3 page 62 wd 8 April 1812 wp 1 July 1812 no issue, unmarried sale of his land chancery Book 1 page 386 6 Oct 1828 all slaves freed and his land was given to one of the slaves
5. John Fentress d ca 1838 md 11 Feb 1804 Peggy rown d/o Tully Brown d before 1816, md 2nd Rebecca Lovett
6. Peter Fentress wb 3 page 152 wd 2 Nov 1814 wp 7 Jan 1816 md 11 Feb 1805 Nancy Fentress d/o Jonathan Fentress and Frances
7. Frances Fentress md 1799 Willoughby West
8. Mary Fentress md William McClanahan
9. Betty (Elizabeth) Fentress md 17 April 1793 Caleb West
10. Jaca Fentress md 18 Jan 1806 Henry Whitehurst
a grandson Zachary Fentress, Elizabeth not listed in will