The first wife of John Calvin Smelley was Mary Hawkins, daughter of James Hawkins and Sarah Kittle.
Thought to be buried at Smelley-Ponder Cemetery where her husband was buried later. This is sometimes confused with Ponders Cemetery which was also called Mount Vernon Cemetery nearby.
Not to be confused with the small Smelley family cemetery not far from here, located among ancient cedar trees behind his father's home and across the road from his own home, about a mile from Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery on Germany Mountain Road. The Bridgers Smelley home was still standing in 2002. The grave markers there are unreadable rocks with deep indentions to demark the graves where they have sunken, supposed to be Mr. and Mrs. Bridgers Smelley's graves.
Mary Hawkins Smelley was a sister of Isaac Hawkins and Barbara Hawkins Polk and a half-sister was Nancy Hawkins Gaines. Barbara married a second cousin of President James K. Polk and Gen. Leonidas Polk.
Thought to be buried at Smelley-Ponder Cemetery where her husband was buried later. This is sometimes confused with Ponders Cemetery which was also called Mount Vernon Cemetery nearby.
Not to be confused with the small Smelley family cemetery not far from here, located among ancient cedar trees behind his father's home and across the road from his own home, about a mile from Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery on Germany Mountain Road. The Bridgers Smelley home was still standing in 2002. The grave markers there are unreadable rocks with deep indentions to demark the graves where they have sunken, supposed to be Mr. and Mrs. Bridgers Smelley's graves.
Mary Hawkins Smelley was a sister of Isaac Hawkins and Barbara Hawkins Polk and a half-sister was Nancy Hawkins Gaines. Barbara married a second cousin of President James K. Polk and Gen. Leonidas Polk.
The first wife of John Calvin Smelley was Mary Hawkins, daughter of James Hawkins and Sarah Kittle.
Thought to be buried at Smelley-Ponder Cemetery where her husband was buried later. This is sometimes confused with Ponders Cemetery which was also called Mount Vernon Cemetery nearby.
Not to be confused with the small Smelley family cemetery not far from here, located among ancient cedar trees behind his father's home and across the road from his own home, about a mile from Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery on Germany Mountain Road. The Bridgers Smelley home was still standing in 2002. The grave markers there are unreadable rocks with deep indentions to demark the graves where they have sunken, supposed to be Mr. and Mrs. Bridgers Smelley's graves.
Mary Hawkins Smelley was a sister of Isaac Hawkins and Barbara Hawkins Polk and a half-sister was Nancy Hawkins Gaines. Barbara married a second cousin of President James K. Polk and Gen. Leonidas Polk.
Thought to be buried at Smelley-Ponder Cemetery where her husband was buried later. This is sometimes confused with Ponders Cemetery which was also called Mount Vernon Cemetery nearby.
Not to be confused with the small Smelley family cemetery not far from here, located among ancient cedar trees behind his father's home and across the road from his own home, about a mile from Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery on Germany Mountain Road. The Bridgers Smelley home was still standing in 2002. The grave markers there are unreadable rocks with deep indentions to demark the graves where they have sunken, supposed to be Mr. and Mrs. Bridgers Smelley's graves.
Mary Hawkins Smelley was a sister of Isaac Hawkins and Barbara Hawkins Polk and a half-sister was Nancy Hawkins Gaines. Barbara married a second cousin of President James K. Polk and Gen. Leonidas Polk.
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