Lucy Ann Elizabeth Gist was the third child of Aaron Gist and Elizabeth Morrisson Gist. She was born in Benton County, Missouri in 1842.
My grandmother Opal told me several stories about her grandparents Lucy Ann Elizabeth and Charles C. Smith. They lived on a small farm in Sebastian County, Arkansas. Charles was drafted into the Confederate Army during the Civil War, serving in Company G, 34th Arkansas Infantry (aka Brooks Regiment) at the rank of Sergeant. They were in desperate shape with no provisions and no uniforms. Finally the Confederate troops were camped so close to Charles' farm that he was able to slip away in the night to his wife, Lucy Ann Elizabeth and his two children, Mary Ann Elizabeth and William Andrew. Charles told Lucy that if she was able to hear gunfire from the battle they were going to fight in the morning, she should take the children to her parents' farm. Charles also told her that he intended to desert to the Union Army at the first opportunity. He was barefoot so Lucy gave him a pair of moccasins she had made for herself. He then returned to the Confederate unit.
The next day, Lucy heard the sounds of battle and hitched the buggy to the old white mule. She tied the old milk cow to the back and put the white bulldog with the black spot over his eye into the buggy with the children, the old farmhand and all the food they could find. They went to her parents' farm to wait for the war to end.
Charles was able to join up with the Union Army in the 47th Infantry Regiment Missouri, Company B on August 4 1864 and served until March 29, 1865. Sometime in 1863, Charles went to Lucy's parents' farm in Arkansas and found the countryside completely devastated from the war. There was no sign of his wife or children. Charles returned to his own farm and harvested the crop to earn some money. Spring came and went and another crop was ready to be harvested before Charles heard anything of his wife and children. A traveler came by and asked him if his name was Smith. On hearing it was, the traveler gave Charles a message from Lucy telling him where they were. Charles immediately saddled up his horse to go get them. This ended two years of separation. At some point in 1864 the family moved to Jefferson County, Missouri, because their third child was born there in May.
They later moved from Missouri to Oklahoma. When they sold all their holdings in Missouri, they gave money to their children and their children's families to move together to Oklahoma with them and homestead there. Lucy Ann Elizabeth willed her Oklahoma property to Jim, Mike and Charles Jesse, the three youngest, since they hadn't received any money for the move to Oklahoma. Charles C. Smith refused to register as part Indian to get free land. He homesteaded instead. He said he was as much a white man as an Indian (he was half white and half Choctaw).
Charles C. Smith died before Opal May Smith was born but Opal did know her grandmother Lucy Ann Elizabeth. In fact, Opal used to skip to school singing "Lucy Ann Elizabeth, Lucy Ann Elizabeth". Opal also told of the time some of Lucy Ann Elizabeth's sons and their friends decided to play a joke on her by throwing a rope over the roof of her farmhouse and pulling it back and forth. It made a scary sound as if someone or something was on the roof. However the joke was on them because Lucy came out of the door like an angry bear, shouting and waving her gun and scared them!
Lucy Ann Elizabeth was a tough pioneer woman who bore and raised 12 children with her husband Charles C. Smith:
Mary Ann Elizabeth Smith
1858 – 1897
William Andrew Smith
1860 – 1880
Jane Isabell Smith
1864 – unknown
Margaret Susan Smith
1866 – 1866
Melinda Ellen Smith
1868 – 1927
Frances Alice Smith
1871 – unknown
Thomas Sherman Smith
1873 – 1969
Eva Eveleen Cassie Smith
1876 – unknown
John Michael Smith
1879 – 1939
James Garfield Smith
1881 – 1960
Minnie Adell Smith
1883 – 1902
Charles Jesse Smith
1886 – 1950
The CC Smith family was one of the founding families of the Maud, Oklahoma area.
My grandmother Opal told me several stories about her grandparents Lucy Ann Elizabeth and Charles C. Smith. They lived on a small farm in Sebastian County, Arkansas. Charles was drafted into the Confederate Army during the Civil War, serving in Company G, 34th Arkansas Infantry (aka Brooks Regiment) at the rank of Sergeant. They were in desperate shape with no provisions and no uniforms. Finally the Confederate troops were camped so close to Charles' farm that he was able to slip away in the night to his wife, Lucy Ann Elizabeth and his two children, Mary Ann Elizabeth and William Andrew. Charles told Lucy that if she was able to hear gunfire from the battle they were going to fight in the morning, she should take the children to her parents' farm. Charles also told her that he intended to desert to the Union Army at the first opportunity. He was barefoot so Lucy gave him a pair of moccasins she had made for herself. He then returned to the Confederate unit.
The next day, Lucy heard the sounds of battle and hitched the buggy to the old white mule. She tied the old milk cow to the back and put the white bulldog with the black spot over his eye into the buggy with the children, the old farmhand and all the food they could find. They went to her parents' farm to wait for the war to end.
Charles was able to join up with the Union Army in the 47th Infantry Regiment Missouri, Company B on August 4 1864 and served until March 29, 1865. Sometime in 1863, Charles went to Lucy's parents' farm in Arkansas and found the countryside completely devastated from the war. There was no sign of his wife or children. Charles returned to his own farm and harvested the crop to earn some money. Spring came and went and another crop was ready to be harvested before Charles heard anything of his wife and children. A traveler came by and asked him if his name was Smith. On hearing it was, the traveler gave Charles a message from Lucy telling him where they were. Charles immediately saddled up his horse to go get them. This ended two years of separation. At some point in 1864 the family moved to Jefferson County, Missouri, because their third child was born there in May.
They later moved from Missouri to Oklahoma. When they sold all their holdings in Missouri, they gave money to their children and their children's families to move together to Oklahoma with them and homestead there. Lucy Ann Elizabeth willed her Oklahoma property to Jim, Mike and Charles Jesse, the three youngest, since they hadn't received any money for the move to Oklahoma. Charles C. Smith refused to register as part Indian to get free land. He homesteaded instead. He said he was as much a white man as an Indian (he was half white and half Choctaw).
Charles C. Smith died before Opal May Smith was born but Opal did know her grandmother Lucy Ann Elizabeth. In fact, Opal used to skip to school singing "Lucy Ann Elizabeth, Lucy Ann Elizabeth". Opal also told of the time some of Lucy Ann Elizabeth's sons and their friends decided to play a joke on her by throwing a rope over the roof of her farmhouse and pulling it back and forth. It made a scary sound as if someone or something was on the roof. However the joke was on them because Lucy came out of the door like an angry bear, shouting and waving her gun and scared them!
Lucy Ann Elizabeth was a tough pioneer woman who bore and raised 12 children with her husband Charles C. Smith:
Mary Ann Elizabeth Smith
1858 – 1897
William Andrew Smith
1860 – 1880
Jane Isabell Smith
1864 – unknown
Margaret Susan Smith
1866 – 1866
Melinda Ellen Smith
1868 – 1927
Frances Alice Smith
1871 – unknown
Thomas Sherman Smith
1873 – 1969
Eva Eveleen Cassie Smith
1876 – unknown
John Michael Smith
1879 – 1939
James Garfield Smith
1881 – 1960
Minnie Adell Smith
1883 – 1902
Charles Jesse Smith
1886 – 1950
The CC Smith family was one of the founding families of the Maud, Oklahoma area.
Lucy Ann Elizabeth Gist was the third child of Aaron Gist and Elizabeth Morrisson Gist. She was born in Benton County, Missouri in 1842.
My grandmother Opal told me several stories about her grandparents Lucy Ann Elizabeth and Charles C. Smith. They lived on a small farm in Sebastian County, Arkansas. Charles was drafted into the Confederate Army during the Civil War, serving in Company G, 34th Arkansas Infantry (aka Brooks Regiment) at the rank of Sergeant. They were in desperate shape with no provisions and no uniforms. Finally the Confederate troops were camped so close to Charles' farm that he was able to slip away in the night to his wife, Lucy Ann Elizabeth and his two children, Mary Ann Elizabeth and William Andrew. Charles told Lucy that if she was able to hear gunfire from the battle they were going to fight in the morning, she should take the children to her parents' farm. Charles also told her that he intended to desert to the Union Army at the first opportunity. He was barefoot so Lucy gave him a pair of moccasins she had made for herself. He then returned to the Confederate unit.
The next day, Lucy heard the sounds of battle and hitched the buggy to the old white mule. She tied the old milk cow to the back and put the white bulldog with the black spot over his eye into the buggy with the children, the old farmhand and all the food they could find. They went to her parents' farm to wait for the war to end.
Charles was able to join up with the Union Army in the 47th Infantry Regiment Missouri, Company B on August 4 1864 and served until March 29, 1865. Sometime in 1863, Charles went to Lucy's parents' farm in Arkansas and found the countryside completely devastated from the war. There was no sign of his wife or children. Charles returned to his own farm and harvested the crop to earn some money. Spring came and went and another crop was ready to be harvested before Charles heard anything of his wife and children. A traveler came by and asked him if his name was Smith. On hearing it was, the traveler gave Charles a message from Lucy telling him where they were. Charles immediately saddled up his horse to go get them. This ended two years of separation. At some point in 1864 the family moved to Jefferson County, Missouri, because their third child was born there in May.
They later moved from Missouri to Oklahoma. When they sold all their holdings in Missouri, they gave money to their children and their children's families to move together to Oklahoma with them and homestead there. Lucy Ann Elizabeth willed her Oklahoma property to Jim, Mike and Charles Jesse, the three youngest, since they hadn't received any money for the move to Oklahoma. Charles C. Smith refused to register as part Indian to get free land. He homesteaded instead. He said he was as much a white man as an Indian (he was half white and half Choctaw).
Charles C. Smith died before Opal May Smith was born but Opal did know her grandmother Lucy Ann Elizabeth. In fact, Opal used to skip to school singing "Lucy Ann Elizabeth, Lucy Ann Elizabeth". Opal also told of the time some of Lucy Ann Elizabeth's sons and their friends decided to play a joke on her by throwing a rope over the roof of her farmhouse and pulling it back and forth. It made a scary sound as if someone or something was on the roof. However the joke was on them because Lucy came out of the door like an angry bear, shouting and waving her gun and scared them!
Lucy Ann Elizabeth was a tough pioneer woman who bore and raised 12 children with her husband Charles C. Smith:
Mary Ann Elizabeth Smith
1858 – 1897
William Andrew Smith
1860 – 1880
Jane Isabell Smith
1864 – unknown
Margaret Susan Smith
1866 – 1866
Melinda Ellen Smith
1868 – 1927
Frances Alice Smith
1871 – unknown
Thomas Sherman Smith
1873 – 1969
Eva Eveleen Cassie Smith
1876 – unknown
John Michael Smith
1879 – 1939
James Garfield Smith
1881 – 1960
Minnie Adell Smith
1883 – 1902
Charles Jesse Smith
1886 – 1950
The CC Smith family was one of the founding families of the Maud, Oklahoma area.
My grandmother Opal told me several stories about her grandparents Lucy Ann Elizabeth and Charles C. Smith. They lived on a small farm in Sebastian County, Arkansas. Charles was drafted into the Confederate Army during the Civil War, serving in Company G, 34th Arkansas Infantry (aka Brooks Regiment) at the rank of Sergeant. They were in desperate shape with no provisions and no uniforms. Finally the Confederate troops were camped so close to Charles' farm that he was able to slip away in the night to his wife, Lucy Ann Elizabeth and his two children, Mary Ann Elizabeth and William Andrew. Charles told Lucy that if she was able to hear gunfire from the battle they were going to fight in the morning, she should take the children to her parents' farm. Charles also told her that he intended to desert to the Union Army at the first opportunity. He was barefoot so Lucy gave him a pair of moccasins she had made for herself. He then returned to the Confederate unit.
The next day, Lucy heard the sounds of battle and hitched the buggy to the old white mule. She tied the old milk cow to the back and put the white bulldog with the black spot over his eye into the buggy with the children, the old farmhand and all the food they could find. They went to her parents' farm to wait for the war to end.
Charles was able to join up with the Union Army in the 47th Infantry Regiment Missouri, Company B on August 4 1864 and served until March 29, 1865. Sometime in 1863, Charles went to Lucy's parents' farm in Arkansas and found the countryside completely devastated from the war. There was no sign of his wife or children. Charles returned to his own farm and harvested the crop to earn some money. Spring came and went and another crop was ready to be harvested before Charles heard anything of his wife and children. A traveler came by and asked him if his name was Smith. On hearing it was, the traveler gave Charles a message from Lucy telling him where they were. Charles immediately saddled up his horse to go get them. This ended two years of separation. At some point in 1864 the family moved to Jefferson County, Missouri, because their third child was born there in May.
They later moved from Missouri to Oklahoma. When they sold all their holdings in Missouri, they gave money to their children and their children's families to move together to Oklahoma with them and homestead there. Lucy Ann Elizabeth willed her Oklahoma property to Jim, Mike and Charles Jesse, the three youngest, since they hadn't received any money for the move to Oklahoma. Charles C. Smith refused to register as part Indian to get free land. He homesteaded instead. He said he was as much a white man as an Indian (he was half white and half Choctaw).
Charles C. Smith died before Opal May Smith was born but Opal did know her grandmother Lucy Ann Elizabeth. In fact, Opal used to skip to school singing "Lucy Ann Elizabeth, Lucy Ann Elizabeth". Opal also told of the time some of Lucy Ann Elizabeth's sons and their friends decided to play a joke on her by throwing a rope over the roof of her farmhouse and pulling it back and forth. It made a scary sound as if someone or something was on the roof. However the joke was on them because Lucy came out of the door like an angry bear, shouting and waving her gun and scared them!
Lucy Ann Elizabeth was a tough pioneer woman who bore and raised 12 children with her husband Charles C. Smith:
Mary Ann Elizabeth Smith
1858 – 1897
William Andrew Smith
1860 – 1880
Jane Isabell Smith
1864 – unknown
Margaret Susan Smith
1866 – 1866
Melinda Ellen Smith
1868 – 1927
Frances Alice Smith
1871 – unknown
Thomas Sherman Smith
1873 – 1969
Eva Eveleen Cassie Smith
1876 – unknown
John Michael Smith
1879 – 1939
James Garfield Smith
1881 – 1960
Minnie Adell Smith
1883 – 1902
Charles Jesse Smith
1886 – 1950
The CC Smith family was one of the founding families of the Maud, Oklahoma area.
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