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Descendants of John Smiley
1.JOHN1 SMILEY was born 1730 in Alis Noolen, Tyrone, Ireland, and died February 10, 1811 in Mt. Pleasant Twp., Washington, Pennsylvania.He married ANN HOUTON STEWART 1758 in Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania.
Notes for JOHN SMILEY:
Tombstone Inscription - North Buffalo United Presbyterian Church Cemetary
Smiley, John died February 10, 1811 aged 81 yrs.
From the biography of W.B. Smiley in the "Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania" published by J. H. Beers and Co. page 888.
John Smiley was born in 1730, in Ireland, to which country his grandfather had fled from Scotland about 1612 for religious freedom.With his father John came to this country when quite young.About 1758 he married Ann Houton Stewart, and they lived in Dauhpin county, Penn., where ten children six sons and four daughters were born to them.The family belonged to what is known as the "Seceder" Church, one of the "straitist Sects", and because Thomas, the eldest son, turned Baptist, he became as a stranger to the rest of the family, and so remained behind when the father and mother and nine other children crossed the mountains and located in Mt. Pleasant Township, Washington Co., Penn., in 1785.John Smiley, the pioneer of the family, died in 1811 in the eighty--first year of his age, and Ann, his wife, passed away in 1814, aged seventy-five years.The sons who came west with them were: James (who died in 1844, aged eighty-two years): Robert ( who died in 1853): John (who died in 1818, aged fifty-eight years, leaving no descendants): Samuel (who died in 1806, and whose family afterward moved west, and their descendants are now living in Illinois and Iowa): and William (who died in 1866, in the eighty-eighth year of his age).The only descendants of James Smiley now living are two grandsons, James A. and Leander, the former of whom now lives on his grandfather's farm in Mt. Pleasant Township.Robert has one son living, James G., who is a farmer living on the "Middletown Road".Robert's other children were John, who died in 1877; Jane (Gabby by marriage), who died in 1842, leaving three children; Anne (Coulter by marriage), who died in 1882, leaving one son, Nathaniel; Thomas, who died in 1885, leaving two daughters and one son, who live on a part of their great-grandfather's farm; Margaret (Thompson by marriage), who died in 1890; Sarah (Thompson by marriage), who died in 1865, leaving descendants in northern Pennsylvania; Mary, who died in 1858, and three that died in infancy.John had no children, and Samuel's family moved to the West.
NOTE: I am not sure about the last three children, Jane, Mary, and Polly.So far I have not been able to confirm for sure if they were children of John and Anne.
More About JOHN SMILEY:
Burial: February 10, 1811, North Buffalo U.P. Cemetary, Washington, Pennsylvania
Military-From: 1776, Curtis Gribbs (Grubbs) Battalion of Pennsylvania Militia
Military-To: 1777, Fought in battle of Long Island, New York
More About ANN HOUTON STEWART:
A.K.A.: Last name may be Stuart
Children of JOHN SMILEY and ANN STEWART are:
2. | i. | JAMES2 SMILEY, b. 1762; d. October 31, 1844. | |
3. | ii. | THOMAS SMILEY, b. May 27, 1759, Hanover, Pennsylvania; d. January 12, 1832, Lycoming Co., Pennsylvania. | |
4. | iii. | ROBERT SMILEY, b. August 25, 1780; d. June 15, 1853. | |
iv. | JOHN SMILEY, JR., b. 1760; d. January 13, 1818. |
More About JOHN SMILEY, JR.: Burial: 1818, N. Buffalo U.P. Church, Buffalo, Washington, Pennsylvania |
v. | SAMUEL SMILEY, d. 1806. | ||
5. | vi. | WILLIAM SMILEY, b. 1778; d. August 15, 1843. | |
vii. | ANN SMILEY, m. ROBERT THOME. | ||
6. | viii. | CATHERINE SMILEY, b. 1775; d. December 09, 1840, Washington Co., Pennsylvania. | |
ix. | JANE SMILEY, m. ? STEWART. | ||
x. | MARY SMILEY, m. ? ATCHISON. |
Notes for MARY SMILEY: Was married 4 times, the last time to Atchison. |
xi. | POLLY SMILEY. |