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Spencer Russell Smith

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Spencer Russell Smith Veteran

Birth
Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky, USA
Death
10 Aug 1861 (aged 40)
Greene County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Mount Vernon, Lawrence County, Missouri, USA GPS-Latitude: 37.1145128, Longitude: -93.7525907
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Spencer Russell Smith is the son of Spencer Smith and Mary Melinda Jemima Wilson. He married Sarah Clayton Nov. 9, 1843 in Princeton, Caldwell, Kentucky. They had eight children.

Brothers James Wilson Smith-Mary Ann Clayton and Spencer Russell Smith-Sarah Clayton moved their families from Caldwell County, Kentucky to Lawrence County, Missouri in 1856. Mary Ann's and Sarah's mother, Lucy Hannah Scott Clayton, came with them.

Spencer Russell died as a Confederate soldier at the Battle of Wilson's Creek near Springfield, Mo. The moment of Spencer Russell's death is related in a family lore story about James and Mary Ann's son, Willis, who was wounded at the Battle of Wilson's Creek: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/236306311/willis-h-smith
Spencer Russell Smith is the son of Spencer Smith and Mary Melinda Jemima Wilson. He married Sarah Clayton Nov. 9, 1843 in Princeton, Caldwell, Kentucky. They had eight children.

Brothers James Wilson Smith-Mary Ann Clayton and Spencer Russell Smith-Sarah Clayton moved their families from Caldwell County, Kentucky to Lawrence County, Missouri in 1856. Mary Ann's and Sarah's mother, Lucy Hannah Scott Clayton, came with them.

Spencer Russell died as a Confederate soldier at the Battle of Wilson's Creek near Springfield, Mo. The moment of Spencer Russell's death is related in a family lore story about James and Mary Ann's son, Willis, who was wounded at the Battle of Wilson's Creek: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/236306311/willis-h-smith


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