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Family: Watt Otey Anderson / Nancy Smith (F7701)  [1, 2

m. 16 Jan 1843


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  • Father | Male
    Watt Otey Anderson

    Born  18 Aug 1816  Pittsylvania Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  27 Apr 1883  Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Married  16 Jan 1843  Pittsylvania Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father   
    Mother   

    Mother | Female
    Nancy Smith

    Born  11 Apr 1823  Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  6 Oct 1869  Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Father  George Kenan Smith, Jr. | F3704 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Susanna "Sucky" Hartman Adkins | F3704 Group Sheet 

  • Sources 
    1. [S46] Marriage Record/Certificate, Pittsylvania VA Marriages.
      Anderson Wat + Nancy Smith 16 Jan 1843 George K. Smith -f.
      See Documents

    2. [S84] Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com~vapittsygenealogynotes2.htm.
      l. George K. Smith (the last ancestor that I have authentic proof of in 1953 - BTA) owned around 1100 acres of land in Pittsylvania County, Virginia on Tomahawk Creek (near Museville. According to family tradition, he was born near Museville, Virginia and buried near Tomahawk, Va. where he lived. Family tradition says he was a miller.
      Value of property $15,302; George K. Smith married Susan Adkins and had the following issue:
      1. Booker (Bowker) Smith was never married. He built the R.J. Reynolds tobacco factory and manufactured tobacco. He had a train of wagons and sold it through the Carolinas and Georgia. He died in early manhood so showed a genius for business ability quite young. (This line of Smith's are related to R.J.Reynolds' wife according to Dr. George Smith Anderson, nephew of Booker Smith). According to his tombstone at the old Smith home near Tomahawk he died Sepember 23, 1841.
      2. Ralph Smith, born September 1, 1813; d. January 7, 1902; married 7th December 1843, Ardennia Wright (b. Jan 14, 1827; d. Jan. 24, 1904). Ralph was willed land on Tomahawk Creek by his father, Geo. K. Smith, and his son, William lived on a farm adjoining that of his brother, Ralph.
      3. William Smith, born September 2, 1818; died August 2,1896. He married February 18, 1856 Rebecca Hodnett (b. Sept. 28,1852; d. July 11, 1904). He owned a vast amount of land on Tomahawk Creek and had many slaves who stayed on with him even after the war as long as he lived, thus making it most profitable for him. He was a very
      successful farmer. During the Civil War he lost a leg but this did not seem to handicap him in any way. He once rode horseback alone to Kentucky with nine thousand dollars in his pocket and purchased 1000 acres of land from a Mr. Grubb for himself, Mr. Joe Reynolds and Ward Reynolds which
      extended from Greenpond back to Bearskin Creek, etc. He and wife were buried at their old home place where the home and tombstones still stand (1953).
      4. Jabez Smith married Catherine Ann Mahan and died without issue. They were buried at the old home place near Tomahawk.
      5. Rhoda Smith married John Reynolds and lived near Greenpond Church and they, too, are buried at their old homeplace. Adkins-Oakes Cemetery
      6. Mary (Polly) Smith married Demarcus (Mark) Anderson, son of Jesse Anderson of Franklin County. Their descendants in the Anderson Family Book.
      7. Eliza Beth (Betsey) married Dec. 21, 1837, Naaman Mahan are buried at their old homeplace.
      8. Nancy Smith, born April 11, 1823; died Oct. 6,1869; married Jan. 16, 1843, Watt Otey Anderson (b. August 18, 1816; d.April 27, 1883). They lived near Greenpond Church and are buried at the family burial ground on his farm. Their descendants in the Anderson Family Book.
      9. Letitia Smith married Ambrose Rucker on December 12, 1853. He was a Captain of Co. "C" 46th Regt., Virginia Infantry. He was at one time a sheriff of some county. They had dau. Mary Rucker md. a Dewberry and dau.Victoria md. Kange Simpson.