Samuel Y. Smith
b. circa 1842
- Father: Lemuel Smith b. circa 1810
- Mother: Mary Roberts b. circa 1815
- Samuel Y. Smith was born circa 1842 in Texas.
- Lemuel Smith and Mary Roberts appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Samuel Y. Smith, Thomas Smith, Lemuel Smith, Mary Ann Smith and Hesekiah Smith.
- Lemuel Smith and Mary Roberts appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Goshen PO, Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Samuel Y. Smith, Thomas Smith, Lemuel Smith, Mary Ann Smith, Hesekiah Smith, Eliza J. Smith, Susan Smith and Julia Smith. Apparently son Samuel also is enumerated as merchant S. Y. Smith (age 18) elsewhere in Walker County in the household of DeWitt Clinton Smith. And apparently John Magruder Smith, Samuel's future brother-in-law, and his small family also are enumerated in the household of Lemuel Smith.
- Dewitt Clinton Smith and Laura H. Wynne appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Samuel Y. Smith, Percy Smith, J. Carroll Smith and William D. Wynne.
- He was a merchant, according to the 1860 census.
- He married Florence L. Wynne, daughter of Erasmus Wynne and Jane Sophronia Anderson, on 14 August 1862 in Walker County, Texas, with W. H. Seat, M.G., officiating.
- Last Edited: 26 Dec 2016