Reuben Smith's was one of the pioneers to Polk County that genealogist Marsha Hoffman Rising detailed in a set of 2005 volumes called "Opening the Ozarks: First Families in Southwest Missouri, 1835-1839 (pp. 2056-60). Rising selected the first 1000 individuals who purchased federal land from the Springfield (Missouri) Federal Land Office and attempted to reconstruct their lives, to the extent possible, from birth to death. He was listed in Polk County tax lists (including 1837, 1841, 1848). He and his family are in the 1840 census records of Jackson Township, Polk County, Missouri. According to Rising's research he and two of his daughters died in 1850 in Polk County due to the typhoid epidemic. The 1850 census has his wife Lavina and some of their remaining children living in Polk County. She remarried James Patterson August 2, 1852, in Polk County. James and Lavina Patterson are in the 1860 Dallas County Census. The book lists Reuben and Lavina's children and their marriages.
Reuben Smith's was one of the pioneers to Polk County that genealogist Marsha Hoffman Rising detailed in a set of 2005 volumes called "Opening the Ozarks: First Families in Southwest Missouri, 1835-1839 (pp. 2056-60). Rising selected the first 1000 individuals who purchased federal land from the Springfield (Missouri) Federal Land Office and attempted to reconstruct their lives, to the extent possible, from birth to death. He was listed in Polk County tax lists (including 1837, 1841, 1848). He and his family are in the 1840 census records of Jackson Township, Polk County, Missouri. According to Rising's research he and two of his daughters died in 1850 in Polk County due to the typhoid epidemic. The 1850 census has his wife Lavina and some of their remaining children living in Polk County. She remarried James Patterson August 2, 1852, in Polk County. James and Lavina Patterson are in the 1860 Dallas County Census. The book lists Reuben and Lavina's children and their marriages.
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