Thomas Shelton Hinds and Mary Smith Bailey

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Husband Thomas Shelton Hinds

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           Born: 20 Nov 1812 - Kentucky (Wayne Co.) 1
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           Died: 1872
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         Father: Levi Hinds (1766-1838) 2 3
         Mother: Susannah Gerron (      -1835/1838)

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Wife Mary Smith Bailey ²

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Shelton Hinds

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CENSUS:

<pre>1850 Brazoria Co., Texas; Oct 18
159/159
Shelton Hines 37 MW Ky $2140 Farmer
Mary " 35 FW Ky
Lucinda Bailey 18 FW Tx </pre>

He is not in the Slave Schedule. Gains Bailey Smith, who will marry Shelton's niece, the eldest daughter of Clarissa, is 21 and is living at 158/158 in the household of Elizabeth Smith, 65, probably his widowed mother.

<pre>1860 Brazoria Co., Texas, p.o. Columbia; July 6; pg 21
174/161
Shelton Hines 48 MW Ky $6000/$920 Farmer
Mary " 46 FW Ky
Henriette West 12 FW Ky
Larmia Williams 16 FW Tx
Nelson West 20 MW Ky
Robt Campbell 26 MW Ar Carpenter </pre>

He is the owner of 4 slaves in the Slave Schedule (black female, 60; black female, 20; black female, 6; mulatto female, 5). Nelson West is the son of his sister, Clarissa. He appears in the 1850 census in the household of his parents. There is no Henriette in that household. Clarissa's daughter Margaret Jane and her husband Henry Smith live at 161/148, and Nelson's brother Harrison is living with them.

<pre>1870 Brazoria Co., Texas, p.o. Chenango; June 24; pg 28
453/453
Shetton Hines 60 Ky $--/$-- Farmer </pre>

TEXASGEN:

The following is from http://www.texasgen.org/. Click on 'Narratives' and then on 'Cornelius Smith'.

Thomas Shelton HINDS married Mary Smith BAILEY by bond in 1835 under Mexican law and again August 1, 1838, in Brazoria County. Mary Polly was the widowed daughter of Cornelius and Betsy SMITH. Her first marriage was to Smith BAILEY, son of an Old 300 colonist, James Britton BAILEY. Mary had a daughter, Lucinda, by her marriage to Smith BAILEY. Gerren HINDS was appointed guardian for Lucinda BAILEY after her grandfather Cornelius died.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Smith Bailey

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For an account of the Smith family, including its relationship to the Hinds, see http://www.texasgen.org/. Choose 'Narratives' and then 'Cornelius Smith'.

1 Bernice Smith West, "The Hinds Family," Blanco County News, March 26, 2008, Repository: http://www.blancocountynews.com/news/article/1928.

2 Genealogical and Historical Society of Caldwell Co, Historical Caldwell County, 1984, pg 192. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

3 , http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/1828census2.htm.