5/8/2015
Smith 1839 MMI and Patty Mayfield Smith 7-4-2013
In Kentucky in 1859, Nathaniel James Smith, a Smith cousin,
married Hannah Mayfield. Later, during the Civil
War, Marshall Smith, along with 3 of his brothers, served in Co.
E, 32nd
Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry of
the Union Army.
The family story is told that there were 4 Smith men were
walking back to their Corbin, Kentucky home after
serving in the Union Army. They stopped at the Issac Mayfield
farmhouse to spend the night. Several daughters
lived with their parents Issac and Margaret “Peggy” (Snyder)
Mayfield.
Two of the Mayfield girls eventually married two of the Smith
brothers.
Marshall married Patty,
“Rene” married Jestin
Nathaniel had married Hannah in 1859.
Marshall and Patty were married in the bride’s home on December
15, 1864, the same year the Civil War ended.
They were the parents of 11 children of which 9 lived to
adulthood. Marshall Mattison Smith and Patty (Mayfield)
Smith are the ancestors of many Smith’s throughout the United
States.
Before coming to Oklahoma in 1909, Marshall and Patty had lived
their entire lives in Whitley County, Kentucky,
near Corbin. Our ancestors, Marshall and Patty, with some of the
children and their families, boarded the train in
Kentucky and moved to Wewoka. It certainly was an adventure for
them to join Marshall II and Bert already in the
new state of Oklahoma.
The children coming with their parents were:
daughters Jestin and Frances (Fanny) as young single women,
Nancy with her husband, Silas Jones, and their young
children,
Jacob Milford with his wife Leona (Barnett) Smith and their
children.
John Speed and family lived in Holdenville when the parents
arrived.
Cyrenius “Rene” had immigrated to Tecumseh I. T. passed away of
yellow jaundice in May 1893, 16 years before
his parents arrived in Wewoka. He is buried at Old Tecumseh
Mission Cemetery, Tecumseh, O.T. near Shawnee
It is through Rene that a new contact with California cousin,
Elaine Smith Elder was made in 2011. (See photos of
the family.) Her father was John M Smith, born in 1912 in
Wanette, Pottawatomie Co., OK. He passed away in
2007. Info from Elaine will be coming the next few years.
Several of Marshall’s brothers and nephews had moved about 10
years earlier to Indian Territory. Frank Smith had
established the Smith General Store on Wewoka Avenue in Wewoka
and Issac (Ike) had established a store in
Tecumseh. Other stores were in Holdenville and Shawnee.
Marshall, Sr. and Patty were married 45 years. Grandmother
“Patty” died in 1910 the first summer after arriving in
Oklahoma. Her obituary states that her illness occurred after
the intense heat of her first summer in Oklahoma. She
succumbed to a stroke of apoplexy. Both are buried in Oakwood
Cemetery in Wewoka. She was the 2nd
person
laid to rest at Oakwood. Marshall lived until age 82 passing
away in 1919.
It is out of this marriage of Marshall Sr. and Patty that a
genealogist Mildred Schockman Smith made an interesting
discovery. She and husband Robert Smith, began to discuss the
many Smith family golden wedding anniversary
parties. With their daughter’s help a list of golden
anniversaries has been compiled.
Using the family history book about Elijah Smith, a trend of
“golden wedding anniversaries” was discovered.
Currently, thirty seven children, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren of Marshall Sr. and Patty have reached the
50-year celebration of their marriage that we know about. One
spouse of each couple is a direct descendent of
Marshall and Patty. Some of the thirty seven couples lived in
Kentucky. Many lived in Oklahoma and other states.
Each year more couples are added. Ten have 60 years and more
years of marriage.
