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Elizabeth Barnhill
1814 TN - 1864 TX
Elizabeth Hungerford Smith was the daughter of James Norman Smith and Sarah Jenkins. Elizabeth was born August 9, 1814, in Maury County, Tennessee and was named for her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Hungerford, daughter of Barton Hungerford and Jane Warren of Charles County Maryland. [Early Families of Southern Maryland, Vol. 5, Vol. 8, Elise Greenup Jourdan.]. Elizabeth Hungerford Smith’s grandfathers - James Turner Smith of MD/NC/TN and Phillip Jenkins of MD/VA/TN were Patriots of the American Revolution.
In 1832, Elizabeth Hungerford Smith married William Calhoun of Tipton County, Tennessee. Widowed in 1841, she moved to Texas with her four children: Samuel Daniel, William Turner, John Richard, and Lizzie. Elizabeth arrived in Texas the spring of 1842 escorted by her brother-in-law Francis Stanton Latham, Editor, Memphis Eagle Newspaper. She was also accompanied by a cadre of Tennessee volunteers calling themselves “The Texian Wolf Hunters.” The arrival is described in F.S. Latham’s writings ‘Travels in the Republic of Texas - 1842,” edited and published by Gerald Pierce through Encino Press, Austin, Texas in 1971. When Elizabeth Hungerford Smith stepped upon Texas soil that spring she also stepped into her place in Texas history. She became a daughter of two republics; leaving behind the fledgling American Republic and becoming a citizen of the Republic of Texas. By 1846 the Republic of Texas was no more; once again Elizabeth was an American citizen.
By 1845, Elizabeth joined her father’s family settling near Cuero. She supported her children by teaching school in Clinton. In 1848, Elizabeth Hungerford Smith Calhoun married a widower, John D. Barnhill and had three daughters: Martha, (1849-1870), m.William Carter; Sarah b.1852 d.aft 1928, m. H.C. Williamson; and Lydia, 1854 TX-1928 TX, m/1 C.D. Newton, m/2 M.V.B. Hook, m/3 J.M. Forester, m/4 S.F. Nelson. ELIZABETH BARNHILL died in Dewitt County, Texas, in February 1864 while her sons were away fighting in the Civil War.
Additional information on Elizabeth Barnhill may be found in Bennie Lou Hook Altom’s essay, “Elizabeth Barnhill and the Texian Wolf Hunters,” based on Pierce and Latham’s books, and winner of the 1997 Daughters of the Republic of Texas Mamie Wynne Cox Historical Essay Award. The essay is available at the DRT Library in San Antonio, Texas; Maury County, Tennessee Public Library, Dallas Public Library, and the Library of Congress, Maury County TN Historical Society Publication, “Historic Maury” Vol. XXXIV, #3, 1998.
28 November 2000
Bennie Lou Hook Altom
Baltom@NovaOne.Net
1814 TN - 1864 TX
Elizabeth Hungerford Smith was the daughter of James Norman Smith and Sarah Jenkins. Elizabeth was born August 9, 1814, in Maury County, Tennessee and was named for her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Hungerford, daughter of Barton Hungerford and Jane Warren of Charles County Maryland. [Early Families of Southern Maryland, Vol. 5, Vol. 8, Elise Greenup Jourdan.]. Elizabeth Hungerford Smith’s grandfathers - James Turner Smith of MD/NC/TN and Phillip Jenkins of MD/VA/TN were Patriots of the American Revolution.
In 1832, Elizabeth Hungerford Smith married William Calhoun of Tipton County, Tennessee. Widowed in 1841, she moved to Texas with her four children: Samuel Daniel, William Turner, John Richard, and Lizzie. Elizabeth arrived in Texas the spring of 1842 escorted by her brother-in-law Francis Stanton Latham, Editor, Memphis Eagle Newspaper. She was also accompanied by a cadre of Tennessee volunteers calling themselves “The Texian Wolf Hunters.” The arrival is described in F.S. Latham’s writings ‘Travels in the Republic of Texas - 1842,” edited and published by Gerald Pierce through Encino Press, Austin, Texas in 1971. When Elizabeth Hungerford Smith stepped upon Texas soil that spring she also stepped into her place in Texas history. She became a daughter of two republics; leaving behind the fledgling American Republic and becoming a citizen of the Republic of Texas. By 1846 the Republic of Texas was no more; once again Elizabeth was an American citizen.
By 1845, Elizabeth joined her father’s family settling near Cuero. She supported her children by teaching school in Clinton. In 1848, Elizabeth Hungerford Smith Calhoun married a widower, John D. Barnhill and had three daughters: Martha, (1849-1870), m.William Carter; Sarah b.1852 d.aft 1928, m. H.C. Williamson; and Lydia, 1854 TX-1928 TX, m/1 C.D. Newton, m/2 M.V.B. Hook, m/3 J.M. Forester, m/4 S.F. Nelson. ELIZABETH BARNHILL died in Dewitt County, Texas, in February 1864 while her sons were away fighting in the Civil War.
Additional information on Elizabeth Barnhill may be found in Bennie Lou Hook Altom’s essay, “Elizabeth Barnhill and the Texian Wolf Hunters,” based on Pierce and Latham’s books, and winner of the 1997 Daughters of the Republic of Texas Mamie Wynne Cox Historical Essay Award. The essay is available at the DRT Library in San Antonio, Texas; Maury County, Tennessee Public Library, Dallas Public Library, and the Library of Congress, Maury County TN Historical Society Publication, “Historic Maury” Vol. XXXIV, #3, 1998.
28 November 2000
Bennie Lou Hook Altom
Baltom@NovaOne.Net