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John Smeathers (b. November 08, 1836, d. date unknown)
John Smeathers (son of John Smeathers and Mary Harris Ashby)226 was born November 08, 1836 in Columbus, Texas226, and died date unknown. He married Mary Ann Hinch on October 13, 1859.
Notes for John Smeathers:
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. John (II) and older half-brother William Smothers (II) were Lavaca River minutemen under Capt. "Black" Adam Zumwalt and participated in the company's response to the Ponton and Foley killings by Comanches on their way to Linnville and were with the company when the Comanches were engaged and routed at the Battle of Plum Creek. William Smothers may have been the "old Texan from the Lavaca" that daringly shot down one of the armored, gaudily dressed chiefs that then precipitated the rout of the Comanches by the settlers. William Smothers was one of twelve men from the Lavaca serving with Capt. Hay's Spying Company which ranged west of the Medina River watching for Mexican troop movements from the south into the Republic. He was in Capt. Zumwalt's Company at the Battle of Salado in response to Gen. Woll's invasion of the Republic and capture of San Antonio in 1842.
John Smothers (II) was living on the Smothers homestead near St. Marys in 1860 with his widowed mother and wife Mary Hinch Smothers (married 13 Oct 1859) near sister Martha Ann and husband Jefferson Butler. John was a successful freighter and stockraiser providing beef and shipping for the confederate troops in the 1860's. John and Mary Smothers had children robert, Henry, John W. (Cora Kelly), George, Lucy (m. C.C. Turk), Maggie (m. Oscar Karney), Fanny (m. E. A. Turk), ginny (m. Bird Kelly), and Lizzie (m. Robert Kelly, later John McElroy). The hard-drinking, hard-playing Butler, Kelly and Smothers "young bucks" were the source of extensive encounters with the law, both due to disputes amoung themselves and others which at times became violent and felonious in the Hallettsville area through the close of the 19th century.
More About John Smeathers and Mary Ann Hinch:
Marriage: October 13, 1859
Children of John Smeathers and Mary Ann Hinch are:
- Robert Smeathers, d. date unknown.
- Henry Smeathers, d. date unknown.
- John W Smeathers, d. date unknown.
- George Smeathers, d. date unknown.
- Lucy Smeathers, d. date unknown.
- Maggie Smeathers, d. date unknown.
- Fanny Smeathers, d. date unknown.
- Ginny Smeathers, d. date unknown.
- Lizzie Smeathers, d. date unknown.

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