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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:   Sarah Andrew Fulgham was born on October 7, 1862, in Uvalde. Her father, Andrew James Fulgham, known as "Tom" was employed by the troops at Ft. Inge as a scout and hunter. Later he operated a sawmill on the Frio River near the present site of Alto Frio.
 Fulgham came to Uvalde County with the Holcomb family, who were friends and neighbors of his family in East Texas after his own father had been lynched because of anti-slavery beliefs. He later married one of the Holcomb girls, Lucinda B. , in Brazos County, Texas. To them were born Sarah, Martha, Thomas, John and Jim. After Lucinda died, "Tom" married her sister, Nancy Frances Holcomb.
 Sarah Fulgham married Walter Louis Smith on May 8, 1879 at her father's home which was located behind which is now Horner's Store. Walter came to Uvalde from San Antonio in 1869, in an ox-wagon owned by Bill Lewis of the Nueces Canyon. His mother, who had remarried after the death of his father, later came to live in San Antonio. She had a young daughter, named Josie Dupoise who lived with Sarah and Walter in Uvalde. She married Sam Blalock who was well known in Uvalde history. In later years, she was married to a man named Campbell.
 Sarah and Walter Smith had eleven children. They were Mary, born in 1880, Joseph, 1882, James Milton (Mitt), 1884, Willie, 1887, Lelia Mae, 1889, Allie (Patti), 1891, Henry Baylor, 1894, Jessie Cummings (Bee), 1897, Grace, 1899, Bernice, 1902 and Ruben, 1906.
 Walter Smith worked many years on the La Pryor Ranch, south of Uvalde, but the family main tained a home in town where the children attended school taught by the Bensons. They lived at various times on North High Street, west of town on the west bank of Cook Slough, and on Anglin Street.
 In 1910 the family went to live near Monclova, Mexico, on a ranch owned by the Washer Brothers of San Antonio. They returned from Mexico during the days when Pancho Villa and his forces were raiding the countryside, bringing with them what cattle and horses they could. They crossed into the United States near Boquillas.
 After living a short time in Del Rio, they moved to Somerset south of San Antonio during the oil boom in that area. There they built and operated the Smith Hotel. Walter Smith died there in 1926. Sarah and her son Ruben returned to Uvalde in 1937. Ruben died in 1941 and Sarah on May 17, 1948. Both are buried in the Uvalde Cemetery on the south half of lot 42 bought by Walter Smith August 15, 1899.
 The only remaining child of Sarah and Walter Smith is Mrs. Lelia Mae Mackey who is 86 and lives in Uvalde at Park Manor. Other Uvalde residents who are descendants are Willie B. (Bill) and Hal Smith, sons of Mitt Smith; Mrs Maudeline Gilbert Gaines, daughter of Mary; Walter Harrington, son of Patti; Mrs. Terry Sparks Tucker, grandaughter of Jessie Cummings; and Mrs. Jackie Simon, great-grandaughter of Mary.
  Submitted by Betty Smith Sparks


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