Daughter of George Wells, per her death certificate. She can be found in his household in the 1850 census in Bienville Parish. (Not to be confused with Vashti Boyd who married her brother George Jr.)
The 1850 census as well as her birthday suggest an 1833 birthdate, but her headstone reads 1831. According to the death certificate and the censuses, she was born in Mississippi.
She married first Joseph (or Josiah) Smith, son of Basil and Malinda (Simmons) Smith (on 26 June 1857, according to family tradition). Their children were Emma (buried here), Samanthy, Abe, Kenneth McKenzy, and Joseph Richard. Emma and Joseph Richard were the only two children from this marriage who survived - the rest perished in a fever that also claimed the life of Joseph Smith.
Vashti next married her brother-in-law, widower Anderson Lenard Chafin who had been married to her husband Joseph's sister Prudence previously. Together they had the following children: Jessey, George, Cornelia Lovonia (buried here), Idonia, and Sauphronia.
According to her great-granddaughter, she smoked a clay pipe.
The 1850 census as well as her birthday suggest an 1833 birthdate, but her headstone reads 1831. According to the death certificate and the censuses, she was born in Mississippi.
She married first Joseph (or Josiah) Smith, son of Basil and Malinda (Simmons) Smith (on 26 June 1857, according to family tradition). Their children were Emma (buried here), Samanthy, Abe, Kenneth McKenzy, and Joseph Richard. Emma and Joseph Richard were the only two children from this marriage who survived - the rest perished in a fever that also claimed the life of Joseph Smith.
Vashti next married her brother-in-law, widower Anderson Lenard Chafin who had been married to her husband Joseph's sister Prudence previously. Together they had the following children: Jessey, George, Cornelia Lovonia (buried here), Idonia, and Sauphronia.
According to her great-granddaughter, she smoked a clay pipe.
Daughter of George Wells, per her death certificate. She can be found in his household in the 1850 census in Bienville Parish. (Not to be confused with Vashti Boyd who married her brother George Jr.)
The 1850 census as well as her birthday suggest an 1833 birthdate, but her headstone reads 1831. According to the death certificate and the censuses, she was born in Mississippi.
She married first Joseph (or Josiah) Smith, son of Basil and Malinda (Simmons) Smith (on 26 June 1857, according to family tradition). Their children were Emma (buried here), Samanthy, Abe, Kenneth McKenzy, and Joseph Richard. Emma and Joseph Richard were the only two children from this marriage who survived - the rest perished in a fever that also claimed the life of Joseph Smith.
Vashti next married her brother-in-law, widower Anderson Lenard Chafin who had been married to her husband Joseph's sister Prudence previously. Together they had the following children: Jessey, George, Cornelia Lovonia (buried here), Idonia, and Sauphronia.
According to her great-granddaughter, she smoked a clay pipe.
The 1850 census as well as her birthday suggest an 1833 birthdate, but her headstone reads 1831. According to the death certificate and the censuses, she was born in Mississippi.
She married first Joseph (or Josiah) Smith, son of Basil and Malinda (Simmons) Smith (on 26 June 1857, according to family tradition). Their children were Emma (buried here), Samanthy, Abe, Kenneth McKenzy, and Joseph Richard. Emma and Joseph Richard were the only two children from this marriage who survived - the rest perished in a fever that also claimed the life of Joseph Smith.
Vashti next married her brother-in-law, widower Anderson Lenard Chafin who had been married to her husband Joseph's sister Prudence previously. Together they had the following children: Jessey, George, Cornelia Lovonia (buried here), Idonia, and Sauphronia.
According to her great-granddaughter, she smoked a clay pipe.
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