He was the son of Nancy A. Hunt and J. W. M. Smith. He was on the 1860 Allen County, Kentucky Census as J. W. Smith, white, male, age 7, born in Tennessee and was in the home of his parents, J. W. M. and Nancy Smith. He was on the 1870 Lovelaceville, Ballard, Kentucky, USA Census as Westley Senter, age 14, in the home of his widowed mother, Nannie Senter. (Her 2nd husband had been James Freeman Senter who died during the Civil War.) His half-brother, E. G. Senter, later said he had migrated to Texas with their mother when he was about 10 years old. That would have been about 1875. No doubt John Wesley Smith came with them. A year later he died in Texas.
No official Death Record or obituary has been found but the 1926 obituary for his bother, Rev. E.A. Smith, states that John Wesley Smith died in an accident in 1876. The cemetery records have different dates from those on his headstone. He was originally burtied at Paris, Lamar County, Texas in 1876, exhumed and reburied here in July 1903 unless this is is a cenotaph.
Date Born: [02 Feb 1852]
Date Died: [28 Jul 1903]
Cemetery: Oakland
Stone Type: No Stone, according to cemetery records but one was placed later.
Date Buried: 29 Jul 1903 . [date of re-burial]
He is buried with the Senter Family. Lot Owner: Senter, E. G [Erasmus Gilbert Senter]
Funeral Home: Loudermilk FH
No official Death Record or obituary has been found but the 1926 obituary for his bother, Rev. E.A. Smith, states that John Wesley Smith died in an accident in 1876. The cemetery records have different dates from those on his headstone. He was originally burtied at Paris, Lamar County, Texas in 1876, exhumed and reburied here in July 1903 unless this is is a cenotaph.
Date Born: [02 Feb 1852]
Date Died: [28 Jul 1903]
Cemetery: Oakland
Stone Type: No Stone, according to cemetery records but one was placed later.
Date Buried: 29 Jul 1903 . [date of re-burial]
He is buried with the Senter Family. Lot Owner: Senter, E. G [Erasmus Gilbert Senter]
Funeral Home: Loudermilk FH
He was the son of Nancy A. Hunt and J. W. M. Smith. He was on the 1860 Allen County, Kentucky Census as J. W. Smith, white, male, age 7, born in Tennessee and was in the home of his parents, J. W. M. and Nancy Smith. He was on the 1870 Lovelaceville, Ballard, Kentucky, USA Census as Westley Senter, age 14, in the home of his widowed mother, Nannie Senter. (Her 2nd husband had been James Freeman Senter who died during the Civil War.) His half-brother, E. G. Senter, later said he had migrated to Texas with their mother when he was about 10 years old. That would have been about 1875. No doubt John Wesley Smith came with them. A year later he died in Texas.
No official Death Record or obituary has been found but the 1926 obituary for his bother, Rev. E.A. Smith, states that John Wesley Smith died in an accident in 1876. The cemetery records have different dates from those on his headstone. He was originally burtied at Paris, Lamar County, Texas in 1876, exhumed and reburied here in July 1903 unless this is is a cenotaph.
Date Born: [02 Feb 1852]
Date Died: [28 Jul 1903]
Cemetery: Oakland
Stone Type: No Stone, according to cemetery records but one was placed later.
Date Buried: 29 Jul 1903 . [date of re-burial]
He is buried with the Senter Family. Lot Owner: Senter, E. G [Erasmus Gilbert Senter]
Funeral Home: Loudermilk FH
No official Death Record or obituary has been found but the 1926 obituary for his bother, Rev. E.A. Smith, states that John Wesley Smith died in an accident in 1876. The cemetery records have different dates from those on his headstone. He was originally burtied at Paris, Lamar County, Texas in 1876, exhumed and reburied here in July 1903 unless this is is a cenotaph.
Date Born: [02 Feb 1852]
Date Died: [28 Jul 1903]
Cemetery: Oakland
Stone Type: No Stone, according to cemetery records but one was placed later.
Date Buried: 29 Jul 1903 . [date of re-burial]
He is buried with the Senter Family. Lot Owner: Senter, E. G [Erasmus Gilbert Senter]
Funeral Home: Loudermilk FH
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