Submitted by: Cathy Millburn

 

 

ROBERT SMITH

 

 

 

Robert Smith, b 1831 in Giles County, Tennessee, d January 21, 1910 in Blue Ridge and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery ‑ was a son of Isaac Smith, b June 18, 1792, d July 26, 1868 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery, and his wife, Elizabeth Isaacs (called "Betsy"), b November 28, 1812, d July 11, 1876 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery. Isaac Smith brought his family from Tennessee to Falls County, Texas in 1849, after he had made a prospecting trip to Texas in 1846, just after Texas became a State in the Union. He purchased tracts of land in the Blue Ridge and Stranger areas of the county. They were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church located on Blue Ridge, in present‑day Stranger.

Robert Smith taught school, engaged in farming, stock‑raising, and in the mercantile business at Hog Island and at Bryan, Texas.

In 1857, Robert was married to Luticia Ann Millican, b ca 1839 in The Republic of Texas, d 1877 at Tehuacana, where the family had moved to educate their children at the Tehuacana Presbyterian College. Their children were:

Elizabeth Smith, who was an art teacher; Andrew M. Smith, b ca 1860, d 1868; Isaac Smith, b July 22, 1862; Robert Lee Smith, b ca 1864, d 1883; Lulu Smith, b ca 1866 ‑ was a graduate of Tehuacana; James T. Smith, b ca 1868, died young; Sarah V. Smith ‑ was a graduate of Tehuacana; and Luticia Smith, b ca 1870.

Robert Smith's wife, Luticia, was a daughter of Andrew A. Millican and his wife, Louisa Ann (Young) Millican, who were married on July 27, 1838 in Robertson County, Texas. Andrew's family were among the first fifty of Stephen F. Austin's Colonists in Texas, and Andrew served in the Texas Army for nine years having been in the Battle of San Jacinto. The town, Millican, Robertson County, Texas, was named in honor of the Millican family. When Andrew died, Louisa (Young) Millican married her husband's cousin, Willis Millican, whose first wife had also died.

 

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 421 column 1.  
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