Ezekiel Smith and Mildred Grinstead

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Husband Ezekiel Smith

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           Born: Abt 1788 - Virginia
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 18 Feb 1811 - Louisa Co., Virginia 1 2

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Wife Mildred Grinstead

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           Born: Abt 1795 - Virginia (Louisa Co.)
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           Died: 
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         Father: David Grinstead (1760/1770-1840/1850)
         Mother: Nancy Ann Warren (Abt 1773-1850/1860)

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Ezekiel Smith

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CENSUS:

<pre>1820 Barren Co., Kentucky
Ezekiel Smith 100010 -- 30100; 1 in agriculture; no slaves
male female
1 <10 3
10-16
16-18
16-26 1
1 26-45
>45 </pre>

<pre>1830 Warren Co., Kentucky
Ezekiel Smith 210101 -- 011111; no slaves
male female
2 < 5
1 5-10 1
10-15 1
1 15-20 1
20-30 1
1 30-40 1
40-50
50-60 </pre>

Ezekiel is in the sequence Naoma Meak, 4x, Richard Raglin, x, Richard Grinsted, Bartholomew Grinsted, Thos Grinsted, Wm. Totter, Peter Raglin, 4x, Ezekiel Smith.

<pre>1840 Warren Co., Kentucky
Ezekial Smith 02210001 -- 1001101; no slaves; 4 in agriculture
male female
< 5 1
2 5-10
2 10-15
1 15-20 1
20-30 1
30-40
40-50 1
1 50-60
60-70
70-80 </pre>

<pre>1850 Polk Co., Missouri; Aug 17
92/92
Ezekiel Smith 60 Va $1000 Farmer
Mildred " 54 Va
Nancy " 34 Va
Thamas " 28 Ky Farmer
Ezikiel E. " 20 Ky
George W. " 18 Ky
John " 16 Ky
Sarah S. " 13 Ky </pre>

He is not in the Slave Schedule.

<pre>1860 Polk Co., Missouri, Jackson Township, p.o. Orleans; Aug 13; pg 204
1450/1425
Ezekiel Smith 74 Va $2000/$1000 Farmer
Mildred " 68 Va
Nancy " 40 Va </pre>

He is not in the Slave Schedule.

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General Notes: Wife - Mildred Grinstead

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WGFA:

THE WILLIAM GRINSTEAD FAMILY IN AMERICA (Gorrell Shumaker and John L. N. Grinstead, April 1974):

pg 12: "Mildred (Milly) Grinstead married Ezekiel Smith 12-21-1811. No further data."

COMMENT:

WGFA believes that this Mildred is a daughter of John Grinstead (1718-1791). According to his will written in 1791 John Grinstead did have a daughter Mildred.

The marriage records of Louisa Co., Virginia indicate that on February 18, 1811 Ezekiel Smith married Mildred Grinstead, under 21 years of age. Hence she was born in 1790 or later. This Mildred Grinstead is much too young to be a child of the John Grinstead who was born in 1718. It is possible to trace Ezekiel Smith in the census. In 1820 he is in Barren Co., Kentucky, in 1830 in Warren Co. close to Bartholomew and Thomas Grinstead, in 1840 in Warren Co., and in 1850 and in 1860 in Polk Co., Missouri where his wife Mildred is 54 and 68 years old respectively. So she was born 1792--1796.

David Grinstead and Nancy Ann Warren are plausible parents for Mildred. They were married in Louisa Co. in 1793. If Mildred had been born in 1795, she would have been 16 when she married in 1811. David is still in Louisa Co. in 1811. 1795 is a bit of tight squeeze between 1794 for her older sister Lucy and 1796 for her younger brother Bartholonew, but none of these dates are firm. They are all conjectural.

1 "Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850," Repository: http://www.ancestry.com.

2 "Familysearch.org," "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRQG-Z5N : 29 January 2020), Ezekial Smith, 1811; image 380/762.