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Abt 1812 - Aft 1880 (~ 69 years)-
Name Ann Smith Born Abt 1812 Botetourt, Virginia, United States 
Gender Female Died Aft 1880 Buried Aft 1880 Person ID I5083 Wagner-Thomas | Hallmark Last Modified 11 Jan 2014
Father Meshack Smith, b. Abt 1764, Georgia, United States , d. 22 Dec 1866, Boone, Missouri, United States (Age ~ 102 years) Mother Rebecca Hardy, b. Abt Feb 1776, Maryland, United States , d. 18 Feb 1868, Linn, Missouri, United States (Age ~ 92 years) Married 21 Feb 1800 Botetourt, Virginia, United States [1, 2] Family ID F1514 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Richard Rue Pulliam, b. 1815, Woodford, Kentucky, United States , d. Abt 3 Apr 1876, Boone, Missouri, United States (Age 61 years) Married 13 May 1834 Boone, Missouri, United States [3, 4] Children 1. William Pulliam, b. Abt 1834, Boone, Missouri, United States , d. Abt 1840, Boone, Missouri, United States (Age ~ 6 years)+ 2. George W R Pulliam, b. Abt Jul 1840 OR Sep 1840, Boone, Missouri, United States , d. Yes, date unknown+ 3. Fielding Sampson Pulliam, b. Abt Jul 1843 OR Sep 1843, Boone, Missouri, United States , d. Yes, date unknown4. Frank Pulliam, b. Abt 1861, Boone, Missouri, United States , d. Bef Sep 1876 (Age ~ 15 years)Last Modified 22 Nov 2014 Family ID F1688 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - Abt 1812 - Botetourt, Virginia, United States 
Married - 13 May 1834 - Boone, Missouri, United States = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - c1812 BIRTH: VA: Ann Smith born about 1812
1810 Botetourt VA census, film 0181426 pg659: SMITH, Meshu Males 1 0-10,1 10-16,1 26-45; Females 2 0-10,1 16-26
1834 MARRIAGE: MO,Boone Co: Ann Smith md Richard Rue Pulliam 13 May 1834
1840 CENSUS: MO,Boone R R Pulliam, 1 in agriculture:
Males: 1 0-5 [Wm]; 1 20-30 [Richard]. Females: 1 20-30 [Ann]
1850 CENSUS: MO,Boone Co-Dist #8, 27 Sep, pg 9, Dw 1074:
PULLIAM, Richard R 35/KY; Ann 37/VA; George 10/MO; Sampson 7/MO;
Susan E Hardy 19/MO
1850 HIST: MO,Boone Co-Letter from Ann Pulliam to sister Charlotte McAllister, 27 Jan 1850 [1856-8, as other dates 1854, 1855 included in letter]:
Dear brother and sister It is through the kind mercey of God that we are permitted to write the family are all well except myself. I have but fiear [fewer] well days of late- I hope when these few lines come to hand they will find you all enjoying the greatest of God's blessing.
I received your letter dated 1854 which gave us great satisfaction to hear that you all was well and doing well. I want you to excuse me for not writting sooner for father and mother had moved to Linn & I could not get the lock of their hair as soon as I wished. I wrote to them to send it but did not get no answer. I last sent by Bro. George and he brought it, he has just got home & he says that Father & Mother are both well & doing fine. When I opened your letter & saw hair in it, I was astonished & could not think where it was from - I immediately turned to the close of the letter & saw your names written my heart then exclaimed is it possible this is my sister's hair My joy was past expressing. It had been so long since we received a letter from you that we gave up all hopes.
You gave your love to a great many of your friends & neighbors. I gave your love to Mays Buras she was much pleased & told me to give her love to you in return. Not long since that she departed this life & is now numbered among the dead. Mr Buras has been dead about 3 years. S Wharton is dead. R Wharton is dead. The girls are all married- the most of them is moved off. D Dankins is moved up into Holt county. I Dankins lives in Rochport. Nancy Tulligreen family sends their love to you all. J Cockran sends their love to you all. There is a great many of the old settlers moved off. Mr Bell is moved off Willis Trues owns his place. The Varvels are also moved off except Matilda. M Pane owns their place. Robert Tulligrn is moved off. Caroline Read is dead & Robert is married the second time & is in your country some place. Chas Mitchell is dead & his son William is dead. He had moved up to Carroll county in this state. Leonard Pulliam is dead. Times have changed very much since you left here. The neighbors are not so thick as they were then, yet we are all pretty much fenced up in ...... ground that is not cultivated are in large woods pastures improvements in buildings. Nearly every farmer has built him a fine house it is the greatest time for farmers now than ever has been since I have been in the state. Some of our farmers last year made from 1600 to 2000 bushels of wheat oats and corn in proportion.
I now seat myself down to finish my letter. We have just received your letter dated Oct 18 1855. We was happy to hear from you again & was pleased th thjink that you had not forgotten us and that you & your family are in good health. I suppose you have a rich gold mine in your country. I am afraid it will be more loss than gain if that is caused the Indians to break out. I am sorry to hear the news. I suppose you are strong enough to stand your ground..... Sister Charlotte you wished to know if there was any room if you came back here. Plenty of room here. Willis True wished to sell his place. Mr Millers place is for sale one mile from here right on the road to Columbia, the place Joseph Huist first settled joining off that on the south side of the road lays a piece of 160 acres that can be bought and lots of others places farther off there is not anybody living on fathers place the buildings are burnt down. Reuben Elliot tends it. I have not seen it since I saw you. I would rather see you, sister, than any person else. Here is a lock of fathers and mothers hair and a lock of mine & Pulliams. You told me you had 10 living children I think you have been quite lucky to raise 10 out of 11. I have had 3 and raised 2 of them one to be 15 years old and the other 12 years old. William was the oldest he died at 7 years old George W the next- Tielden S [Fielding S]the youngest- I have but 2 I must tell you something about them George can do anything his father can do except cradle and make rails. Tielden is the prettiest and smartest Pulliam that you ever seen- his eyes are dark and as round as Charlottes he goes to school and has about a dozen or more..... (could be prizes) he can read like a preacher. I must come to a close for my papers getting short. Give my love to America and family to Martha and her husband Ann Pulliam to Charlotte McAllister
1851 HIST: MO,Boone Co-Pleasant Ridge, 10 Oct 1851-Richard R & Ann Pulliam to James & Sharlotta McCalister:
"Oct 10 1851: Dear Brother and sister I take my pen in hand to inform you how we are getting along we ar all in tolderable good health at presant hopein these few lines may find you all enjoying the best of health there has been a great deal of sickness around hear of all kinds from the chills and fevor up to the cholery but our family has been blest with tolerable good health so far and we are all able to eat our allowanse and we have got plenty to deat and drink and that of the verry best you need not think you have every (repeated) think you have every thing because you live in origon for we have plenty of everything you can mention except children. We have not got as many children as our neighbours but I think we can make out we have only two children and they ar boyes, george w and Fieldon Sampson is their names and they ar as smart children as ever you saw in your life they can work like little men we raise plenty of corn wheat and tobacco and oats and have a first rate meadow and stock of all kinds and they bare a good price. now especially mules on account of California Thaires been a good many of our neighbours and friends gon to California and a good many have returned home and some have done well and others did not get paid for their trouble and eheirs is some ther yet and is doing verry well one is Mitchell Pulliam My Brothers son and James M True his son in law they are both doing well perhaps you have heard of them they went out last year and expect to come home this fall. I will now give you some of their names that you are aquanted with that have returned home James Franklin Smith son of George Smith & Sydnew Eliott & George Eliott & James hardy and many others to tedious to mention but non of them saw you nor did not hear of you while they was in California and we seldom hear of you as you not think enough of us to write to us I would of written to you before but I did not no wher to write to but I was fortunate enough to get one of your old leters you wrote to father and I learned wher to direct my letter I want you to write to me as soon as you receive this and let us no how you ar all getting along in that distant land, and when you write direct your letter to Boon Count Missouri Rockport, post office and I think I can hear from you as your letters is so precous here when one gets a letter from you. They think so much of it and keep it so never got but one of them and it is now twelve monthes old and I hope you will excuse for not writing sooner, we have just heard from our friends in grand river they ar all well and father and mother is quite well we ar looking for some of them down verry soon. Brother George Smiths family has all been sick with the chills and fever ther has been four and five sick at a time but they ar all in tolerable good health at this time. I suppose you heard about George,s to sons being married James Franklin married a miss Coleman some two or three yeares ago and Jacson married a Miss Varvel our niece a daughter of Isaac Varvel they have both moved to grand river and is doing tolerable well James Smith has one son and calls him William Jacson Smith I will now tell you the price of produce here wheat is worth sixty cents per bushel and corn is worth one dollar and a quarter per barrel and I think it will be worth two dollars before spring tobacco is worth five dollars per hundred & beef is worth from three to four dollars per hundred and others in proportion. I will now tell you of a new invention in our country hear we can get news from new york two hours ahead of time from St Louis to Rochport if so it will run by our house William and Nancy Pulliam send their best love and respects to you both and would be verry glad to see you. George and Sampson sends their best love and respects to their Cousins xx also to their uncle and aunt and they would be very glad to see them all Give my love to america Thomas also to Mr Thomas George Smiths family sends their love to you all give our love to each and every one of the children and save a great portion for yourselfs Richard R & Ann Pulliam to James and Sharlotta McCalister."
1860 CENSUS: MO,Boone Co-MO Twp, 29 Jun, pg 59, Dw 433-476:
PULLIAM, Richard 45/KY; Ann 46/VA; George W 19/MO; Fielding S 16/MO
1866,1876 HIST: MO,Boone Co: Obit of father, Meshack, shows living with daughter, Mrs Richard Pulliam of Boone Co, MO at time of death, Dec 1866. Probate for husband 9 April 1876 shows Ann as widow.
1870 CENSUS: MO,Boone Co-MO Twp, 12 Jun, pg 23, Dw 138-174:
PULLIAM, Rich 55/KY, farmer; Ann 57 VA; Frank 9/MO
Living same Dw# as John Doyle, blk.
c1876 DEATH: MO,Boone: Richard Rue Pulliam died about 3 April 1876
1880 CENSUS: MO,Boone-FHL film#1254676, pg 201A, Dw #...:
PULLIAM, Ann-mother 68/VA, living with son and family, George W R Pulliam
- c1812 BIRTH: VA: Ann Smith born about 1812
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Sources - [S302] Virginia,Botetourt Co: Marriage Records, Vol 2v pg 275, 435.
Mesheh Smith & Rebecca Hardy 21 Feb 1800; brother, Thomas Hardy Jr, who also consented - 18 Sep 1809. He declared that Rebecca dau of Thomas & over 21
Date: 1780 or 1853 - [S309] Missouri,Howard Co: Land Records, Film 30701: Book 15, page 477.
Thos Hardy late of Co of Botetourt VA died intestate leaving land, negroes & pers prop of every description... Meshack Smith being intermarried with Rebecka Hardy, daughter of said Thos Hardy deceased, & resident of State of Missouri...
Franklin Court-Powr/atty-Botetourt Co VA Index to Deeds, Grantor M-Z 1770-1889, flm30701:
Date: June 1823 - [S193] IGI-International Genealogical Index, Film #1760778.
Richard Pulliam md Ann Smith 13 May, 1834 in Boone Co, Missouri
IGI M514661/0567 - [S422] Internet: Ancestry.com, Anc.com Img 4, MG bk pg 105.
This is to certify Richard Pulliam was married to Ann Smith, both of Boone County and State of Missouri, on the 13th day of May 1834 by me, a minister of the gospel according to the notes of matrimony, signed Fielden Wilhite... Recorded June 27, 1834, Roger V Todd, Clerk.
Missouri Marriage Records 1803-2002, searched 1-19-2009, copy of original marriage rcd book pg 105
- [S302] Virginia,Botetourt Co: Marriage Records, Vol 2v pg 275, 435.