Genealogy Report: Descendants of John Floyd
Descendants of John Floyd
222.ANNA POPE8 SMITH (THOMAS FLOYD7, THOMAS FLOYD6, ABIGAIL DAVIS5FLOYD, WILLIAM4, JOHN3, CHARLES2, JOHN1)1985 was born 20 October 1866 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY1986, and died 27 May 1955 in Jefferson Co., KY1986.She married FRANK SLAUGHTER CARPENTER 05 June 18941987, son of JOHN CARPENTER and ELLEN COSBY.He was born 21 December 18631987.
Notes for ANNA POPE SMITH:
Alex Luken of Louisville, Ky. says "Fannie Smith is really Ann Pope Smith.Frank Carpenter is Frank Cosby Carpenter, son of John Slaughter Carpenter and Ellen Blake Cosby.Ellen Blake Cosby is the daughter of Fortunatus Cosby Jr. and Ellen Mary Jane Blake.Fortunatus Cosby Jr. is the son ofFortunatus Cosby and Mary Ann Fontaine. Mary Ann Fontaine is the sister of Sarah Fontaine who married George Rogers Clark Floyd"
Children of ANNA SMITH and FRANK CARPENTER are:
| i. | FLOYD SMITH9 CARPENTER1988, b. Abt. 1897. | ||
| ii. | ELEANOR BLAKE CARPENTER1988, b. Abt. 1900. |
223.THOMAS FLOYD8 SMITH III (THOMAS FLOYD7, THOMAS FLOYD6, ABIGAIL DAVIS5FLOYD, WILLIAM4, JOHN3, CHARLES2, JOHN1)1989 was born 31 August 1868 in Jefferson Co., KY1990, and died 19581991.He married MARY PRESTON BRUCE1992,1993,1994, daughter of HORATIO BRUCE and ELIZABETH HELM.She was born Abt. 18921995, and died 19381996.
Notes for THOMAS FLOYD SMITH III:
President of the St. Louis Board of Trade.Alex Luken, who is noted throughout these notes: "Thomas Floyd Smith married Mary Bruce, daughter of Horatio Washington Bruce and Elizabeth Hardin Helm.Elizabeth Hardin Helm is the daughter of John L. Helm and Lucinda Barbour.
From Donna Russell:
THOMAS FLOYD SMITH, whose entire mature career has been devoted to the paper business, wholesale and manufacturing, is president of the Louisville Paper Company, and a man justly prominent in civic and business affairs. He was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, August 31, 1869, a son of Captain Thomas Floyd and Blanche (Weissinger) Smith. His great-grandfather, Colonel Thomas Floyd Smith, married Emelie Chouteau daughter of August Chouteau, who was one of the conspicuous pioneer citizens of St. Louis, Missouri. The Chouteau home was one of the first established in that city. The grandfather of the Louisville business man was also Colonel Thomas Floyd Smith, who married a relative of Colonel John Floyd, one of the historic characters of early Kentucky. Grandfather Smith was an intimate friend of Jefferson Davis and Zachary Taylor…
…Thomas Floyd Smith was educated in the schools of Oldham and Jefferson counties, and the first money he ever earned was picking grapes at fifty cents per day. He became connected with a wholesale paper concern at Louisville at the age of nineteen, and subsequently was one of the organizers of the Louisville Paper Company, of which he has been president and acting head for many years. This is one of the largest wholesale paper concerns in the South, and has branch offices in many southern cities. Mr. Smith served two terms as president of the Central State Paper Dealers Association, and also is a past president of the National Paper Trade Association, which includes in its membership all the large paper manufacturers of the United States.
For many years, Mr. Smith has been associated with Louisville’s business and civic affairs. He served three terms as president of the Louisville Board of Trade. He was one of the organizers and vice president of the Louisville Industrial Foundation. He was one of the commission appointed by the mayor to raise a million dollars for the building of a Memorial Auditorium, and had an active charge of the financial campaign. He is a trustee of two schools in Jefferson County, the Rogers Clark Ballard School, and the Jacobs (Colored) School. Mr. Smith is a republican voter, and a member of the Presbyterian Church.
On April 26, 1898, he married Mary Bruce, a native of Louisville, and daughter of Horatio W. and Elizabeth (Helm) Bruce. Her mother was a daughter of Governor John Helm of Kentucky, and a granddaughter of Benjamin Hardin, the eminent Kentucky lawyer. Judge H.W. Bruce was chief attorney for the Louisville and Nashville Railway at the time of his death. He was elected by the Provision Legislature of Kentucky to a seat in the Confederate Congress. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have two children: Bruce, a student at Yale University, and Thomas Floyd (NOTE: Olivia Smith’s father), the fourth of the name in as many successive generations.
Louisville Paper Company Founder Thomas Floyd Smith, IV.from Volume IV of “History of Kentucky,” by William Elsey Connelly and E.M. Coulter, Ph.D., American Historical Society, 1922
Census information shows that Thomas Floyd Smith lived in Pewee Valley
The Smiths were also members of Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church http://www.littlecolonel.com/Places/Churches/Presbyterian.htm, and like her mother-in-law before her, Mary Bruce Smith served as president of the women’s group.
In her autobiography, “The Land of the Little Colonel,” Annie Fellows Johnston mentions that her stepson John worked for the Louisville Paper Company, after his graduation from the military academy in Highland Park. Most likely, the Johnston family’s acquaintance with Thomas Floyd Smith, III helped him land the job.
Mary Bruce Smith died in 1938 and was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery http://www.cavehillcemetery.com/, Section 14, Lot 252, grave 6. Their son, Thomas Floyd Smith, IV, died in 1981 and is buried in the same plot, grave 6. We have been unable to locate the grave of her husband, Thomas Floyd Smith, III, in the Cave Hill burial database, but presume he is in the same plot.
More About THOMAS FLOYD SMITH III:
Burial: probably the same lot as his wife, Cave Hill Cemetery1997
Notes for MARY PRESTON BRUCE:
She was married to a Bruce first.
More About MARY PRESTON BRUCE:
Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Sect. 14, Lot 252, Grave 6, Jefferson Co., KY
Child of THOMAS SMITH and MARY BRUCE is:
| i. | THOMAS FLOYD9 SMITH IV1998, b. Abt. 19101999; d. 19812000. |
| More About THOMAS FLOYD SMITH IV: Burial: Cave Hill Cemetery, Sect. 14, Lot 252, Grave 6, Jefferson Co., KY |
Child of JULIA HUMES and WILLIAM RHODE is:
| i. | JAMES HUMES9 RHODE2001, b. Abt. 1900. |