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Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary Lucinda Smith: Birth: 15 MAY 1880 in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas. Death: 10 SEP 1927 in Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas

  2. Joseph Leonard Smith: Birth: 10 AUG 1882.

  3. Milton James Smith: Birth: 17 JUL 1884 in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas. Death: 23 OCT 1952 in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas

  4. William Walter Smith: Birth: 18 JAN 1887.

  5. Lelia Mae Smith: Birth: 10 APR 1889 in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas. Death: 21 FEB 1981 in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas

  6. Allie Smith: Birth: 5 NOV 1891 in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas. Death: 3 FEB 1966 in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas

  7. Henry Baylor Smith: Birth: 2 OCT 1894 in Jefferson County, Port Arthur, Texas. Death: 24 MAY 1944 in Brewster County, Alpine, Texas

  8. Jessie Cummings Smith: Birth: 22 MAR 1897 in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas. Death: 13 MAR 1967 in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas

  9. Iva Grace Smith: Birth: 14 MAY 1899.

  10. Person Not Viewable


Notes
a. Note:   RAISED ON THE FRONTIER
  By Walter Smith, Del Rio, Texas
  It made me feel twenty-five years younger to attend the reunion of the Old Trail Drivers in San Antonio, for I met so many of my old boyhood friends, many of them I had not seen in forty-five years, boys that I had been associated with during the early days of the frontier.
 I was born at Corpus Christi, May 8th, 1856, and moved to San Antonio when I was six years old. Went to school at the old Free School house which stood on Houston street in that city. San Antonio was then only a small adobe town. In 1869 I landed in Uvalde in an ox-wagon owned by Bill Lewis of the Nueces Canyon. There were only six ranches in the canyon at that time, but lots of Indians were there to harrass the few settlers. We had many narrow escapes, but we were a happy and seemingly contented people. I have lived on the western frontier ever since I reached manhood, and have had many thrilling experiences and hard trials, but have lived through all down to this day of the high cost of everything. We lived then on the fat of the land, and that was not a luxury. Our food was plain, but wholesome, and if the people of today would be content with the table comforts we had in those days, the doctors' signs would soon disappear.
 I went up the trail six different times, the last herd being driven from Uvalde county in 1882 for the Western Union beef Co. to the South Platte River, Colorado. I have had so many ups and downs that if I were to undertake to tell all of them it would more than fill this volume.
 Was married at Uvalde, Texas, May 8th, 1879, to Sarah A. Fulgham, and we have had eleven children, eight of whom are still living.



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