Troy Smith Photo

TROY SMITH

Handwritten on the back of this photo is: "This is mother's boy baby I kept 4 months, he was raised on a bottle, his name is Troy." He is the son of Nathaniel Smith Jr. and Canzada Eddings. Nathaniel Smith Jr. is a brother to Annie (Smith) Eddings. (See Simon Newton Eddings family photo also posted here.)

My Great Great Grandpa Morgan Pierce and wife Martha Jane (Hines) Pierce lived in Scott Co., AR in the early 1860s at least. They appear on the 1860 Scott Co., AR census as Morgan Price, instead of Pierce as it should be. Morgan spent time in Lincoln Co., MO then down to AR and I believe went back and forth between MO and AR several times. Three of his children ended up marrying in Newton Co., AR. Morgan and Martha’s children were:

Matilda b. 1849 Lincoln Co., MO (m. Unknown, possibly a Funk?)
John Robert b. 1855 Lincoln Co., MO (m. Charity Davis, Newton Co., AR)
Flora Ann b. 1858 Lincoln Co., MO (m. Willis Franklin “Dock” Jameson/Jamerson Feb. 11, 1875 Lincoln Co., MO)
M.T. “Bud” b. Mar 1860 Scott Co., AR (Could his name be Morgan Thomas?)
Mary Ellen b. 1865 AR (m. Nathaniel Smith, Newton Co., AR)
Lydia Francis b. 1868 AR (m1. Bernard Patrick Flanagan Jan. 10, 1884 Lincoln Co., MO; m2. Jesse Hamilton Newton Co., AR)
Salvader Theodore “Vade” b. July 1871 Lincoln Co., MO (m. Rilla Jane (Powelson) Jeffries Lincoln Co., MO)

I descend from Flora Ann (Pierce) Jamerson. The name is spelled both with and without the “r” through the years and with my grandpa’s generation the “r” stuck (except with his brother who kept the spelling Jameson).

Contributed by Patty (Jamerson) Archer