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Subject: Bible Records
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 01:02:27 EST

This is a copy of the Bible Records of William Robert Thomas as provided by
Mrs. Leslie Bamburg, Red River Parish, La. It is copied exactly as Mrs.
Bamburn wrote it.

FAMILY BIBLE OF WILLIAM ROBERT THOMAS
(Courtesy of Mrs. Leslie Bamburg, Red River Parish, Louisiana)

NOTE: Copy very hard to read

Robert Smyth was born May the26 day 1790.

Edney Thornton was born March the 21, 1801.

These the mother and father of thes below.

John P. E. Smyth was born August the 4, 1820.

William M. Smyth was born August the 3, 1828.

David J. Smyth was born November (?) the 9, 1830.

Jacob A. Smyth was born July the 3, 1833.

Edney. P. Smyth was born Mary the 11, 1836.

Robert M. Smyth was born February the 18, 1839.

Edney Smyth the mother of Edney P. Thomas died December the 31, 1850, the
wife of R. Smyth.

John P. E. Smyth died March the 15, 1860.

(a skip in the record)

Robert Smyth the father of Edney P. Thomas died April the 12, 1860 (date not
clear)

David J. Smyth died July the 23, 1862.

Robert M. Smyth died on the 29 day of ______, 1862.

William M. Smyth died on the 5 day of November 1862.

NOTE: William Robert Thomas, so of Roberth Thomas ans his wife, Elizabeth
Stringer entered the above information in his Bible. He died in Red River
Parish, Louisiana in 1911, but his Bible was not "found" until recently. He
was from Butler County.

The Civil War almost "wiped out" the Robert Smyth family. Edna Permelia Smyth
was the first wife of William Robert Thomas. She died in the early 1860's,
and he married Levicy E. Skipper October 19, 1865.

John P. E. Smyth married Malinda Rhodes, daughter of Jared Rhodes. She died
before 1860, leaving four small children: John P. E. was then married to Eliza
Thomas, a cousin of William R. Thomas. John P. E. Smyth died in 1860 and is
buried in the Rhodes Cemetery.

These sons of Robert Smyth died in the War, William M. David J. and Robert M.
only one son, Jacob A. Smyth remained of the entire family.

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Jacob A. Smyth married Martha M. Beckworth, granddaugther of Jarred Rhodes,
before April 16, 1853. There were two daughters: Edna Malinda, who married
William Gray Cooper; and Elizabeth M. who married David Craig. Jacob Smyth's
second wife was Julia Ann Newton, who had no children.

William M. Smyth married Julia Ann Martin before the courthouse fire. Ther
were two Smyth children in 1860. John B. and and L. A. (female).

Julia Ann Smyth married John Lowery in 1870. (Julia Ann's maiden name is not
proven)

David J. Smyth married Eliza _______ and there were two children in 1860.
Robert Jeff and M. J. (female). Robert M. Smyth married Mary A Mason before
he went to war.

William Robert Thomas' brothers and sisters were:

Martha, wife of S. K. McCormick;

Mary Ann Foster Andress, wife of Jeremiah;

Elizabeth, wife of John Thomas, her cousin;

another sister ws Sarah Jane.

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[NOTE from Mildred Stinson Brown: WIlliam M. Smyth's wife was Julia Ann
Rhodes, daughter of Jarrett (Jared) Rhodes and Martha King. Their children
were John Bragg Smith and Liza Ann Permelia Smyth. Robert Smyth is my 4th
great-grandfather.]

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