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Descendants of Wilhelm "William" Schmetter

Generation No. 3

3. BARBARA⁵ SMATHERS (WILLIAM⁴ SMITHER II, WILHELM "WILLIAM"³ SCHMETTER, JOHN² SMOTHERS, JAMES¹) She met (1) ZACHARIAS LYERLY. She married (2) FNU MILLER.

Notes for BARBARA SMATHERS:
Rowan Co., NC: 9 Aug 1782. Zacharias Lyardly ordered to give security to indemnify the County on account of a bastard child begot on the body of Barbary Smatter and entered into Bond of 100 pounds specie with Alexander Clingerman and Michael Crite.

6 Nov 1782. 4:326 Specie paid to GH Berger by Malt Troy, Esq. 25/c for fine for bastardy Zacha Lyardly on the body of Barbara Smither and delinquents have compromised.

Child of BARBARA SMATHERS and ZACHARIAS LYERLY is:

JOHN⁶ SMATHERS, b. December 17, 1781, Rowan Co., NC; d. February 10, 1824, Haywood Co., NC.

4. EVA⁵ SMATHERS (WILLIAM⁴ SMITHER II, WILHELM "WILLIAM"³ SCHMETTER, JOHN² SMOTHERS, JAMES¹) died 1807. She married JOHN BASSINGER October 24, 1803 in Rowan Co., NC. He was born Abt. 1759, and died 1824.

Notes for EVA SMATHERS:
Michael Cobel was marriage Bondsman

Notes for JOHN BASSINGER:
Gregory Todd Basinger, on April 7, 1999 at www.genforum.com, provides the following:
The children were listed in Rowan Co., NC, court records of 1816 when Eve's brother Jacob Smithers' will stated that "Eve Pasinger, one of Jacob Smathers' sisters (nine brothers and sisters were listed) died leaving 4 children (John, Rosannah, James and Ann)". Eight years passed from that point before further records are found. Rowan Co. Court Records of April 1824 records that "John Basinger was dead and he had three orphans, John, Rosannah and James". There was no mention of Ann. On May 5, 1824, Jesse W. Walton was named Legal Guardian of the children.

Children of EVA SMATHERS and JOHN BASSINGER are:

	i.		JOHN⁶ BASSINGER.
	ii.		ROSANNAH BASSINGER.
	iii.		JAMES BASSINGER.
	iv.		ANN BASSINGER.

5. SUSANNA⁵ SMATHERS (WILLIAM⁴ SMITHER II, WILHELM "WILLIAM"³ SCHMETTER, JOHN² SMOTHERS, JAMES¹) died 1807. She married WILLIAM ROUGH.

Child of SUSANNA SMATHERS and WILLIAM ROUGH is:

POLLY⁶ ROUGH, b. Abt. 1795; d. Abt. 1840; m. JOHN M. CLAVER.

Notes for POLLY ROUGH:
Information on this family can be found from Marcie Van Deren at rmhc@bigsky.net

6. HEINRICH "HENRY"⁵ SMATHERS (WILLIAM⁴ SMITHER II, WILHELM "WILLIAM"³ SCHMETTER, JOHN² SMOTHERS, JAMES¹) was born 1775 in Rowan Co., NC, and died June 14, 1856 in Haywood Co., NC. He married MARY MAGDELINE SCHNIDER. She was born 1770 in NC.

Notes for HEINRICH "HENRY" SMATHERS:
18 Jne 1796 Henry Smather (signed in German) to Alexander Clingman for 30 pounds money of North Carolina, 150 acres on both sides of Panther Creek Adjacent to Jacob Fisher. Witness (a German signature) and Jacob Fisher. Proved by Fisher at May Court 1797. Abstracts of Rowan County Deed Books.

1820 Census, Haywood Co., NC: Head Henry Smathers. 1 male (0-10); 1 male (16-18); 1 female (16-26).

1850 Census, Haywood County, NC: Smathers, Henry, Sr., 75, NC; Mary Magdeline, 80, NC.

From the Smither/Smathers Archives: Memorial; Henry Smathers (alias of Smither), senior Elder of the Haywood County Branch of the Smathers family, died on June 14, 1856 on the Summit of Balsam. He was born in Rowan County, NC, 1775 as son of William Smither II (who came from Pennsylvania in 1774 to Rowan where he died 1823) grandson of William I (an American born Britisher) who died 1760 in Berks County, PA, leaving Will naming 7 sons. Moving to Lincoln County, NC, in 1809, Henry later became associated with the Fullbrights, dealers in Haywood County lands. On a trip to Haywood in August 1814, he learned of a massive Missouri exodus on part of local residents which was beginning to start in anticipation that the then existing 1812 War would end soon. Advanced parties were being sent to the bank of the Ohio River to locate and occupy camp sites near the river crossings (then barred by British Forts) which would open at war's end. Henry rushed back to Lincoln and started movement to prevail upon persons, stranded in Lincoln awaiting travel clearance to Missouri, to forget Missouri and go immediately to Haywood where good land was becoming vacant and available for purchase at bottom prices. In particular, he invited a large Rowan group, including his younger brother John and Mary Agner, to join him in the Fullbright Cove. They accepted and within a year a thriving community, named Dutch Cove and consisting of many families, had come into existence. Henry remained in Dutch Cove until about 1836 when he bought the Shook House at the Bend of Pigeon (now Clyde) and moved his family there including Mary Agner, widow of his younger brother John who died in 1825. Two years later he sold the Shook house to his nephew, Levi, and retired to Balsam and a life of old age leisure. Yet, as long as his health permitted he attended Court Sessions at Waynesville. He was known affectionately as the "Sage of Balsam".

Children of HEINRICH SMATHERS and MARY SCHNIDER are:

	i.	WILLIAM⁶ SMATHERS.
8.	ii.	HENRY SMATHERS, JR., b. 1794, Rowan Co., NC; d. Aft. 1880.
	iii.	GEORGE SMATHERS, b. 1796; m. SARAH FULLBRIGHT, Abt. 1816.
	iv.	AMELIA SMATHERS, b. 1801; m. DAVID FULLBRIGHT, Abt. 1816.
	v.	ELIZABETH SMATHERS, b. 1804; m. JOSEPH CHAMBERS, July 13, 1824, Haywood Co., NC.
	vi.	ISAAC SMATHERS, b. 1810; m. (1) CATHERINE SNIDER; m. (2) NANCY JENNINGS.
	vii.	JOHN SMATHERS, b. 1810; m. RUTH LINER.
	viii.	CATHERINE SMATHERS, b. 1811; m. JOHN SNIDER.
	ix.	DANIEL SMATHERS, b. 1814.

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