Submitted by: Cathy Millburn
ROBERT SMITH
Robert Smith, b 1831 in Giles County, Tennessee, d
January 21, 1910 in Blue Ridge and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery ‑ was a son of
Isaac Smith, b June 18, 1792, d July 26, 1868 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery,
and his wife, Elizabeth Isaacs (called "Betsy"), b November 28, 1812, d July 11,
1876 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery. Isaac Smith brought his family from
Tennessee to Falls County, Texas in 1849, after he had made a prospecting trip
to Texas in 1846, just after Texas became a State in the Union. He purchased
tracts of land in the Blue Ridge and Stranger areas of the county. They were
members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church located on Blue Ridge, in
present‑day Stranger.
Robert Smith taught school, engaged in farming, stock‑raising, and in the
mercantile business at Hog Island and at Bryan, Texas.
In 1857, Robert was married to Luticia Ann Millican,
b ca 1839 in The Republic of Texas, d 1877 at Tehuacana, where the family had
moved to educate their children at the Tehuacana Presbyterian College. Their
children were:
Elizabeth Smith, who was an art teacher; Andrew M.
Smith, b ca 1860, d 1868; Isaac Smith, b July 22, 1862; Robert Lee Smith, b ca
1864, d 1883; Lulu Smith, b ca 1866 ‑ was a graduate of Tehuacana; James T.
Smith, b ca 1868, died young; Sarah V. Smith ‑ was a graduate of Tehuacana; and
Luticia Smith, b ca 1870.
Robert Smith's wife, Luticia, was a daughter of Andrew A. Millican and his wife,
Louisa Ann (Young) Millican, who were married on July 27, 1838 in Robertson
County, Texas. Andrew's family were among the first fifty of Stephen F. Austin's
Colonists in Texas, and Andrew served in the Texas Army for nine years having
been in the Battle of San Jacinto. The town, Millican, Robertson County, Texas,
was named in honor of the Millican family. When Andrew died, Louisa (Young)
Millican married her husband's cousin, Willis Millican, whose first wife had
also died.
Copyright Permission granted
to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families
to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 421 column 1.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.