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Smith Cemetery, 72-2 Summary Report, page 15
Much of the data about Hughy Smith's ancestry came from the Ancestry.com files posted by Jerald L. Knode, with his e-mail address of August 2001 being jerry@ezstart.com. With respect to the descendants of Hughy Smith, information in the Family File for “Smith” in the Heritage Room of the Huntsville - Madison County Public Library includes a copy of a portion of the Final Settlement papers of his estate. In these papers, his children, living and dead at the time (April 22, 1884) are named. Hughy's living descendants at the time of 1884 were named as being: Margaret A. Richards (nee Smith) of Augusta, Arkansas; Cynthia N. Otey (nee Smith, b. ~1807 SC), wife of John W. Otey b. 1801 VA, served as Madison County's first Judge of Probate and as Clerk of the County Court; Sophia A. Turner (nee Smith, b. ~1812 SC), wife of Henry B. Turner (b. ~1808 VA) of Walnut Grove, Etowah Co., Alabama; and Stanhope C. Smith (b. ~1826) of Morgan Co., Alabama. The known dead children of Hughy Smith at the time of the 1884 Final Settlement were given as: (1) James F. W. Smith, who owned land adjoining Hughy's, purchased from the U.S. Government Nov. 13, 1833, W/2 of NW/4, S15-T5S-R1W - died leaving no issue. James sold land beside his father's plantation to William W. Spence in 1834. Several deeds of the period show that James F. W. Smith was an acting Justice of the Peace for Madison County. James afterwards was living in Virginia in October of 1857 (per Mad. Co. AL Probate Record Book 21, page 559). He died before 1869, when Morris K. Taylor was appointed adminstrator of his estate concerns in Madison County, per Probate Minute Book 12, page 319. (2) Mijamin W. Smith, of whom nothing is known except the implication that he reached adulthood and left no issue. However, it is known that Mijamin also moved to Virginia, where he was living in October of 1857 per Madison County AL Probate Record Book 21, page 559. Just as for his brother James, Mijamin was know to be deceased by 1869, when Morris K. Taylor was appointed administrator of his estate matters in Madison County. (3) Isabella E. Otey (nee Smith), whose heirs were Amanda Pruitt (wife of Green Pruitt of Madison County, Alabama), Sophia 15 - (2628)