Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas. Page: 1,003 of 1,110
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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY. 909
related to the Virginia Pendletons, Ednund field, Corinth, and luka. He was wounded
being a family name. Mr.
Smith's grand
at Corinth and sent to the hospital at Canton
father, Willis R. Smith, was closely related Mississippi, thence to Quitman, and then
to the Lee, Green and Willis families of back to his command. He was on a furlough
Virginia and Maryland. One branch of the at the time the company disbanded. Mr.
Green family (Mr. Smith's great-grandmoth
Ryan has improved his farm, and now owns
er's maiden name was Green) emigrated to 125 acres in a good state of cultivation.
Kentucky in an early day and settled in Mer
He was married in Dallas county, in 1865,
cer county. (Boyle county was formerly a to Mrs. Ellen Mary Murray, a native of
part of Mercer county.) Judge Duff Green Indiana and daughter of Wesley M. Chenault,
and two Presbyterian ministers, Louis and also a native of Indiana and an early pioneer
Joshua Green, were cousins of our subject's of Dallas county. In company with Jack
grandfather, Willis R. Smith. Hubbard Smith and Judge Patterson, Mr. Chenault
Taylor, Sr., and Henry Clay were the most erected a saw and grist mill on White Rock,
intimate friends, although they differed in which they conducted for a number of years.
politics, Mr. Clay being a Whig of the His death occurred many years ago, in Monstrictest
sort, while Mr. Taylor was a stanch tague county, Texas, and his wife, Elizabeth
Democrat. Mr. Clay was a frequent visitor (Hatfield) Chenault, died in Dallas county.
at the home of Mr. Taylor. Collins, in his Mr. Ryan lost his excellent wife by death,
history of Kentucky, gives an extended March 23, 1886. They had ten children,
sketch of Hubbard Taylor, and says of him nine of whom are living: William Emmett,
that he was a great favorite among the peo
who is working for the Wells, Fargo John W. is a member of the Fire Destock
business. In 1861 he enlisted for one partment of Dallas; Edward died Novemyear
in Company F, Third Texas Cavalry, ber 30, 1891; James H.; Patrick; Rosa;
and was in the battles of Elkhorn, Spring
Lizzie; Hattie and Etta.
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/1003/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.