Lycenius Logan Smyth1
b. 18 December 1856, d. 4 July 1937
Birth | 18 Dec 1856 | Lycenius Logan Smyth was born on 18 Dec 1856 at Meadowview in Washington County, Virginia.4,1 |
Name Other | | He appears to have been known as either "L.L." or "Logan." |
Residence | | Family tradition states that William and Eliza lived in Tennessee for a short while. If so they may have moved shortly after Logan's birth. |
Moth-Death | 1857 | Logan's mother died when Logan was not quite 5 months old. His father apparently returned to Virginia. Shortly afterwards Buck left to fight in the Civil War, leaving his 3 young children to be raised by relatives. |
| | Following the war Logan's father remarried and started a second family. |
Cens-1870 | 30 Sep 1870 | When the 1870 census was recorded Lycenius was living with his aunt and uncle, Jonas and Lydia Smith. He was thirteen years old.5 |
Migration | | Both Logan and his older brother Wallace left Virginia as young men. Logan headed to Texas. He also changed the spelling of his name from Smyth to Smith. |
Marriage | 1 Dec 1889 | He married Margaret Hulda Page on 1 Dec 1889 in Higgins, Lipscomb County, Texas.4 |
Cens-1900 | Jun 1900 | Logan and "Maggie" first lived in Lipscomb County, Texas (Texas panhandle near the Oklahoma border). Census records describe Logan as a farmer although descendants believe he actually worked for several large cattle ranches.6 |
Cens-1910 | 28 Apr 1910 | In the early 1900s the family moved to Montana. The 1910 census recorded 53 year old Logan and 38 year old Maggie farming in Carbon County with their 6 children, including 8 year old twins Charles and Ida.7 |
| | Logan and Maggie worked at a variety of jobs in Montana but Logan again got the itch to move on. In late 1911 they moved north across the border into Canada where they homesteaded in Alberta between Lac Isle and Lac St. Ann. However after 5 years they returned to live in Carbon Co., Montana again. In 1921 they once again returned to Canada. |
Death | 4 Jul 1937 | Lycenius died on 4 Jul 1937 in Stanger, Alberta, Canada, at age 80.2,8 |
Family | Margaret Hulda Page b. 11 Dec 1871, d. 1938 |
Children | - Grace Josephine Smyth4 (8 Oct 1890 - 1920)
- Lenis Margaret Smyth4 (4 Oct 1892 - )
- Chester Page Smyth4 (17 Mar 1894 - )
- Lorena Lillian Smyth4 (20 Jul 1897 - )
- Charles Ray Smyth4 (7 Feb 1902 - )
- Ida May Smyth4 (7 Feb 1902 - )
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Citations
- [S13] Aleta Spicer, Smyth, p. 96. Desc. chart for Lycenius Logan Smyth and Margaret Hulda Paige; author unclear.
- [S13] Aleta Spicer, Smyth, p. 92. Desc. chart for William (Buck) Smyth and Eliza Logan; author unclear.
- [S827] Caleb Logan settlement (1884), Washington Co., Virginia Will Book 21: 349. Settlement covers time frame from Nov. 1861 to Oct. 1882. Wm Smith received payment as guardian of L.L.. Smith, heir of Eliza Smith, nee Logan, deceased.
- [S13] Aleta Spicer, Smyth, p. 27.
- [S635] Jonas Smith household, 1870 U.S. cens, Washington Co., Virginia, pop. sched., Glade Spring Township, p. 77b (stamped), dwelling 337, family 342, viewed online at Ancestry.com, April 2003, image 154 of 426. Jonas Smith 65, owns real estate valued at $2,500; Lydia, 62; Jno C. 36, farmer; Adeline 30; Wm D. 7; Henderson 3; (cont. on p. 78) D. L. Smith (f) 2; L.L. Smith (m) 13; Jane Moffat 58; M. E. Logan (f) 21; all b. VA.
- [S2696] Logan L. Smith household, 1900 U.S. cens., Lipscomb Co., Ohio, pop. sched., Precinct 2, ED 45, sheet 4A (p. 92 stamped), dwelling 47, family 47, viewed online at Ancestry.com, Jul 2011. Household includes: Logan L. Smith, 43, b. Nov. 1856, marr 10 yrs, b. VA/VA/VA, farmer; Maggie H., wife, 28, b. Dec. 1871 KS, marr 10 yrs, mother of 4 children, all are living; Grace J., dau, 9, b. Oct. 1890; Lenis M., dau, 7, b. Oct. 1892; Chester P., son, 5, b. Mch, 1895; Larena L., dau, 2, b. Jul 1897; all children b. TX.
- [S2697] L.L. Smith household, 1910 U.S. cens., Carbon Co., Montana, pop. sched., School District 26, ED 14, sheet 6A (p. 180 stamped), dwelling 2, family 2, viewed online at Ancestry.com, Jul 2011. Household includes: L.L. Smith, 53, marr #1, marr 20 yrs, b. VA, farmer; Maggie H., wife, 38, marr #1, marr 20 yrs, mother of 6 children, all are living, b. KS; Lenis, dau, 17; Chester, son, 15; Lorena, dau, 12; Charles, son, 8; Ida, dau, 8; all children b. TX.
- [S30] Audrey Honegger, "Smyth Family - Oops forgot something," e-mail to Diana Powell, 20 May 2001.
- [S13] Aleta Spicer, Smyth, p. 30.