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Note N485 Index
6. DENNIS WESLEY4 SMITH (GEORGE RETZIER3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)25 was born July 14, 1853 in Harrison County, Indiana, and died Abt. 1903 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He married SARAH STAPLER HAWKINS December 20, 1883 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma Territory. She was born November 25, 1856, and died November 25, 1895 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma Territory.
Notes for DENNIS WESLEY SMITH:
According to Mary Jane Gass, Dennis was an outcast from the family because he married an Indian woman. She wrote, " When I first started finding this information, I got a lot of, " No, never, no one in our family married an Indian". But his wife Sarah turned out to be a school teacher who was educated in the east and played the piano well. "
But her family is among the Old Cherokee Families. Her mother was the sister of Cherokee Chief John Ross.
In 1900 Dennis is a widower and lists his occupation as a carpenter.
Notes for SARAH STAPLER HAWKINS:
" Old Cherokee Families by Emmet Starr; Norman, Oklahoma, 1972 gives the genealogy of Sarah as :
Ghi-Goo-le married John McDonald; daughter Mary McDonald married Daniel Ross; their daughter Jennie ( sometimes referred to as Jane) Ross[1787-1844] married Joseph Coody [1779-1859] . She and Joseph married in 1805. Jennie was the sister of Chief John Ross. Jennie and Joseph's daughter Maria Ross Coody [1818-1902] married John Gabriel Madison Hawkins [ 1813-1867]. They were buried together in Tahlequah City Cemetery. Sarah Stapler Hawkins was their youngest daughter of seven children ."
Information comes from Smith Family.... of Floyd and Harrison Counties, Indiana by MJ Gass
More About DENNIS SMITH and SARAH HAWKINS:
Marriage: December 20, 1883, Tahlequah, Oklahoma Territory
Children of DENNIS SMITH and SARAH HAWKINS are:
i. SARAH S.5 SMITH.
ii. D.W. SMITH.
iii. INFANT SMITH, b. 1890.
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Note N506 Index
Note: Hildon Braswell in his book states he has the "linage which includes James Craig (1868-1951), a merchant of Atlanta, GA, from whom Elizabeth Braswell Pearsall, of NC descended. She was the first know Braswell of record, to ever research the Braswells."
"Elizabeth's "manuscript", as she called it, was well researched and written, but she told very little about her family, so I shall give her credit here for having the loving, dedicated Braswell spirit to write what all genealogists consider as being the "bible" of the Bracewell (Braswell) history."
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Note N512 Index
[Genealogy.com, LLC, Family Archive #513, Ed. 1, Virginia Land, Marriage and Probate Records, Date of Import: May 2, 2001, Internal Ref. #1.513.1.2370.4]
Individual: Elizabeth Braswell
Date: Apr 21, 1744
Location: Isle Of Wight
Record Type: Probate
Record ID: 22774
Description: Daughter
Prove Date: Aug 26, 1745
Book-Page: 4-541
Remarks: Richard Braswell. Leg.-son William and son Joseph, my Exs.; daughter Elizabeth; son John; loving wife.
This probate record was extracted from microfilmed copies of the original Will Book.
[Genealogy.com, LLC, Family Archive #513, Ed. 1, Virginia Land, Marriage and Probate Records, Date of Import: Mar 24, 2003, Internal Ref. #1.513.1.2370.4]
Individual: Elizabeth Braswell
Date: Apr 21, 1744
Location: Isle Of Wight
Record Type: Probate
Record ID: 22774
Description: Daughter
Prove Date: Aug 26, 1745
Book-Page: 4-541
Remarks: Richard Braswell. Leg.-son William and son Joseph, my Exs.; daughter Elizabeth; son John; loving wife.
This probate record was extracted from microfilmed copies of the original Will Book.
[Genealogy.com, LLC, Family Archive #513, Ed. 1, Virginia Land, Marriage and Probate Records, Date of Import: Mar 24, 2003, Internal Ref. #1.513.1.2370.5]
Individual: Elizabeth Braswell
Date: Oct 22, 1714
Location: Isle Of Wight
Record Type: Probate
Record ID: 22269
Description: Granddaughter
Prove Date: Jun 26, 1732
Book-Page: 3-304
Remarks: Susannah Braswell. Leg. - son Richard; son William; granddaughter Elizabeth Braswell; daughter Ann; grandson John Riggs; son James. Trustees, Richard Jones and Richard Jordan.
This probate record was extracted from microfilmed copies of the original Will Book.
[Genealogy.com, LLC, Family Archive #513, Ed. 1, Virginia Land, Marriage and Probate Records, Date of Import: May 2, 2001, Internal Ref. #1.513.1.2370.4]
Individual: Elizabeth Braswell
Date: Apr 21, 1744
Location: Isle Of Wight
Record Type: Probate
Record ID: 22774
Description: Daughter
Prove Date: Aug 26, 1745
Book-Page: 4-541
Remarks: Richard Braswell. Leg.-son William and son Joseph, my Exs.; daughter Elizabeth; son John; loving wife.
This probate record was extracted from microfilmed copies of the original Will Book.