Wade & Webb Family History

Alexander McKay Smith1793–1871

Cumberland · Nixburg · Carolina Cemetery Elmore County · Talladega Springs

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Sources
  4. Notes

Birth

  1. 23 Apr 1793 Cumberland, North Carolina 1

Marriages

  1. 28 Feb 1844 Mary Jane Robbins, at Election Precinct 2 Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama
  2. 7 Jul 1844 Mary Jane Robbins, at Alabama, Coosa County 4
  3. about 1845 Mary Jane Robbins, at Of,, Alabama
  4. 1846 Mary Jane Robbins, at , Autauga, Alabama
  5. about 1854 Mary Jane Robbins
  6. Date unknown Mary Jane Robbins
  7. 24 May 1821 Catherine Margaret McNeill 2
  8. 20 Oct 1831 Catherine Mc Millan, at Cumberland, North Carolina 3

Death and burial

  1. 1871 Burial: Carolina Cemetery Elmore County, Alabama, U
  2. 29 Aug 1871 Death: Talladega Springs, Talladega, Alabama 8

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Marriage 1, 28 Feb 1844
Mary Jane Robbins 1825–1900
Children
Laura Jeanett Smith 1850–1925
Alice Helen Smith 1855–1890
Anna Bell Smith 1868–1938
Mary Eliza Smith 1847–1919
Lauchlin McKay Smith 1852–1933
Archibald Duncan Smith 1845–1846
Libbie Stores Smith 1867–1932
Marriage 2, 24 May 1821
Catherine Margaret McNeill 1805–1823
Marriage 3, 20 Oct 1831
Catherine Mc Millan 1812–1842

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Alexander McKay Smith
  2. Husband of Mary Jane Robbins
  3. Eliza Robbins
  4. William Walker Walden, son
  5. Lila Walden, daughter
  6. Hilda Webb, daughter
  7. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Husband of 2nd great-grandaunt of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Alexander McKay Smith was born on 23 April 1793 in Cumberland County, North Carolina, according to the FamilySearch tree, which cites no source for the date.1 The tree gives him three wives.2 The first, Catherine Margaret McNeill, he married on 24 May 1821, and the tree has her dying in 1823; no record of the marriage is attached.2 The second marriage, to Catharine McMillan on 20 October 1831, is recorded in the North Carolina county marriage indexes, and the tree places it in Cumberland County and gives her death as 1842.3 The third, on 7 July 1844, was to Mary Jane Robbins, daughter of Solomon Robbins Sr. of Coosa County, Alabama; the marriage index names the groom "John Smith", and the tree gives him John Alexander Smith as another name.4 The federal censuses of 1850, 1860 and 1870 recorded him in Coosa County, Alabama, in 1870 at Nixburg, with Mary in his household.5 He also appears in the slave schedules of 1850 and 1860, the separate parts of those censuses that listed enslaved people, by age and sex rather than by name, under the name of the person who held them; the index entries do not give how many people he held.6 The tree names seven children of the third marriage, born between 1845 and 1868.7 He died at Talladega Springs, Talladega County, Alabama, on 29 August 1871, and the tree gives his burial place as "Carolina Cemetery Elmore County, Alabama", where a Find a Grave memorial to Alexander McKay Smith is indexed.8 The Alabama death records of his children Laura Janette Smith (1925), Lauchlin McKay Smith (1933) and Annie B. Hunter (1938) name him as their father, the last as "Alexander M Smith".9 A further record, the 1926 Alabama death record of a John Alexander Smith, also names an Alexander Smith as father; the tree lists no son of that name, and the record is not counted here as his.10

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to Alexander McKay Smith.

  1. 20 Oct 1831Alexander Smith, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-2011 "
  2. 20 Oct 1831Alexander Smith, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-2011 "
  3. 20 October 1831Alexander Smith, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-2011 "
  4. 20 Oct 1831Alexander Smith, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-2011 "
  5. 20 October 1831Alexander Smith, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-2011 "
  6. 20 Oct 1831Alexander Smith, "North Carolina, Marriages, 1759-1979"
  7. 1850Alexander Smith, "United States, Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 "
  8. 1850Alexander Smith, "United States, Census, 1850"
  9. 1860Alex Smith, "United States, Census (Slave Schedule), 1860"
  10. 1860Alex Smith, "United States, Census, 1860"
  11. 1870Alex Smith, "United States, Census, 1870"
  12. 1925Alexander Smith, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  13. 1926Alexander Smith, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  14. 28 April 1933Alexander Smith, "Alabama, Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952"
  15. 1933Alexander Smith, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  16. 1938Alexander M Smith, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  17. Alexander McKay Smith, "Find a Grave Index"
  18. Page from Neill McKay Blue Family Bible Records
  19. 1850Mary Smith, "United States, Census, 1850"
  20. 20 Oct 1831Catharine Mcmillan, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-2011 "

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L453-VGQ: birth 23 Apr 1793, Cumberland, North Carolina, no source attached back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L453-VGQ: marriage to Catherine Margaret McNeill (1805–1823), 24 May 1821, no source attached back to the text
  3. "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-2011 ", FamilySearch, Alexander Smith and Catharine Mcmillan, 20 Oct 1831. Record: Alexander Smith and Catharine Mcmillan, 20 Oct 1831 "North Carolina, Marriages, 1759-1979", FamilySearch, Alexander Smith, 20 Oct 1831. Record: Alexander Smith, 20 Oct 1831 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L453-VGQ: marriage to Catherine Mc Millan (1812–1842), 20 Oct 1831, Cumberland, North Carolina back to the text
  4. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, John Smith and Mary Robbins, 07 Jul 1844. Record: John Smith and Mary Robbins, 07 Jul 1844 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L453-VGQ: also named John Alexander Smith FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L4WX-NBV (their page): daughter of Solomon Robbins Sr. back to the text
  5. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Alexander Smith, 1850. Record: Alexander Smith, 1850 "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Mary Smith in entry for Alexander Smith, 1850. Record: Mary Smith in entry for Alexander Smith, 1850 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Alex Smith, 1860. Record: Alex Smith, 1860 "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, Alex Smith, 1870. Record: Alex Smith, 1870 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L453-VGQ: residence 1850 and 1860, Coosa; 1870, Nixburg, Coosa back to the text
  6. "United States, Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 ", FamilySearch, Alexander Smith in entry for <Unknown>, 1850. Record: Alexander Smith, United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 "United States, Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", FamilySearch, Alex Smith, 1860. Record: Alex Smith, United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860 back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L453-VGQ: children of Alexander McKay Smith and Mary Jane Robbins, 1845–1868 back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L453-VGQ: death 29 Aug 1871, Talladega Springs, Talladega, Alabama; burial 1871, Carolina Cemetery Elmore County, Alabama "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Alexander McKay Smith. Record: Alexander McKay Smith, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  9. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Alexander Smith in entry for Laura Janette Smith, 1925. Record: Alexander Smith in entry for Laura Janette Smith, 1925 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Alexander Smith in entry for Lauchlin McKay Smith, 1933. Record: Alexander Smith in entry for Lauchlin McKay Smith, 1933 "Alabama, Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952", FamilySearch, Alexander Smith in entry for L K Smith, 28 April 1933. Record: Alexander Smith in entry for L K Smith, 28 April 1933 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Alexander M Smith in entry for Annie B Hunter, 1938. Record: Alexander M Smith in entry for Annie B Hunter, 1938 back to the text
  10. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Alexander Smith in entry for John Alexander Smith, 1926. Record: Alexander Smith in entry for John Alexander Smith, 1926 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L453-VGQ: no child named John Alexander Smith back to the text