Henry S. Smith, Third Landgrave

Henry Smith

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• Born 6 Aug 1727 in Province of South Carolina
• Son of Thomas Smith II and Mary (Hyrne) Smith
• Brother of Thomas Smith [half], George Smith [half], Anne (Smith) Waring [half], Barbara (Smith) Hyrne [half], Sabina (Smith) Taylor [half], Justina (Smith) Moore [half], Edward Hyrne Smith, James Smith, Mary Hyrne (Smith) Screven, Margaret Smith, Elizabeth Hyrne (Smith) Dixon, Josiah Smith, Thomas Smith and Benjamin Smith
• Husband of Elizabeth (Ball) Smith — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
• Father of Thomas Smith, Catherine (Smith) Poyas and Harriet (Smith) Scott
• Died 8 Dec 1780 at age 53 in Goose Creek, South Carolina

Henry, born 6 August 1727, was the son of Landgrave Thomas Smith and Mary Hyrne of the Province of South Carolina. He inherited a plantation in Goose Creek called Yeamans Hall, and he acquired additional land in Colleton and Craven counties. At the time of his death, he owned 105 slaves.[1][2]

On 27 September 1753 he married Ann Filbein, daughter of John Filbein, by whom he had children Mary Hyrne (d. 1756), Thomas (1757-1821), John Filbein (d. 1760), and Ann Filbein (m. John Smith Waring). Ann died on 20 November 1762.[1][2]

His second wife, whom he married 13 December 1764, was Elizabeth Ball, daughter of John Coming Ball and Catharine Gendron.[3] They had at least nine children, but the only ones who survived their father were Catharine (m. John Ernest Poyas), Elizabeth, Harriet (m. Richard Scott), and Mary Ann.[2]

His Will, written 3 November 1779 with a codicil 8 December 1780, mentions his wife Elizabeth, son Thomas, daughter Ann Waring, son-in-law John Smith Waring, brother Benjamin Smith, cousin Josiah Smith, brother-in-law Elias Ball, and the four daughters by his present wife.[4]

Henry died 8 December 1780. He is buried in Yeamans Hall Plantation Cemetery, Goose Creek, Berkeley County, South Carolina. [5][6]

From his Father, he inherited the landgrave title, a Goose Creek Plantation known as Yeaman’s Hall, 2 lots in Georgetown, and lands on Wassamaw and Back Rivers. He obtained land in Colleton Co, and in Craven Co. At his death, he owned in addition to the lands of his father, a plantation in St. George Dorchester Parish, a tract on Lady Island on the PeeDee River, and the schooner “Wamshaw” and 105 slaves.”

Henry and Ann’s children: 1. Mary Hyrne b 7 Nov 1755 d 1756; 2. Thomas III b 3 Jun 1757 d 21 Nov 1821/2 of Westoe m 1) 23 Nov 1775 Edith Smith b 1755 d 14 July 1812 m 2) 1815 Jane Morgan b 1787 d 1836. Their children: i) George Henry Smith b 1 Sep 1793 d 26 Aug 1848 bur Yeamans Hall m 1) Maria Day d 19 Aug 1836 m 2) 4 Oct 1837 Eliza Fishburne Lockwood b 22 Aug 1815 d 7 Sep 1891. George Henry’s children: Thomas W b 1822 d 1824; Susan Mary Day b 25 Dec 1823 d 27 Oct 1871 m 1 Feb 1849 Thomas Postell Lockwood); Thomas Henry b. 27 Jun 1840; Elizabeth S. b 8 Feb 1842 m William Stevens Brown; 3. John Filbein b 1750 d 1760; 4. Anne Filbein b 1761 m 1) John Smith Waring Jr b 1757 d 1786 m 2) Henry Bonsall

Henry married 1764 2) Elizabeth Ball b 1746 d 1787 dau of John Coming Ball and his first wife Catherine Gendron

Their children: Henry Jr b 1765 d 1766; unk son b/d; Catherine b 1768 d1836 m John Ernest Poyas; Elizabeth b 1770 d 1846; Judith b 1771 d young; Harriet b 1772 d 1822 m Richard Scott; Mary Ann b 1774 d 1825; Sarah b 1776 d young; Jane Ball b /d 1778