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John Smeathers (d. 1846)
John Smeathers (son of William Smithers and Mary Winters)226 died 1846 in Texas. He married (1) Eleanor Moore on Abt. 1815. He married (2) Mary Harris Ashby on January 25, 1836 in Texas.
Notes for John Smeathers:
John Smothers (I) received a league of land in the DeWitt Colony west of current Hallettsville near current St. Marys community. He is listed as arriving in Sep 1828 with family of 4 and a widower when the title was passed on 8 May 1832. John Smothers (I) was a voter in the Precinct of Upper Lavaca on 1 Feb 1836 to elect a delegate to the Mar 1 Texas Independence Convention at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Soon after John and Mary Smothers were forced to flee east in the Runaway Scrape after the Alamo defeat in early Mar 1836, they stayed at Groces Retreat in current Waller Co for a period, then Hempstead and Columbus where son John Smothers (II) was born on 8 Nov 1836. In 1839 they returned to the Smothers homestead where John Smothers (I) died in 1846. John and Mary had four children, John (II), Charles, Tobin and Martha Ann (m. Jefferson Butler). John and Charles became freighters based in Halletsville and making runs to Austin, the Gulf coast and LaGrange. They hauled in the parts for the first cotton gin west of the Colorado River.His three children by his first wife were William (II), Archibald and Mary Ann (m. Elijah Kelly). On 25 Jan 1836, John Smothers (I) and Mary Harris Ashby were married by alcalde Andrew Ponton under bond of $10000 until the marriage could be confirmed by Mexican law by a Catholic priest. Mary Ashby was the second child of John Miller and Mary Ashby who were also early Lavaca River settlers living near the Smothers. Her older sister was the much written about and colorful Sarah Ann Ashby McClure Braches.
From the History of Gonzales County Texas: Archibald Smothers, son of John Smothers (I) and a Mr. Nunnelley were surprised and killed by Indians by night in their camp on the Lavaca River where they were cutting trees and making boards.
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More About John Smeathers:
Moved: Abt. 1821, To Texas.
More About John Smeathers and Eleanor Moore:
Marriage: Abt. 1815
More About John Smeathers and Mary Harris Ashby:
Marriage: January 25, 1836, Texas.
Children of John Smeathers and Eleanor Moore are:
- William Smeathers, b. 1820, d. 1863.
- Archibald Smeathers, b. Abt. 1822, d. 1838.
- Mary Ann Smeathers, d. date unknown.
Children of John Smeathers and Mary Harris Ashby are:
- +John Smeathers, b. November 08, 1836, Columbus, Texas226, d. date unknown.
- Tobin Smeathers, d. date unknown.
- Charles Smeathers, d. date unknown.
- Martha Ann Smeathers, d. date unknown.

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