Margaret Truax

b. 19 February 1757, d. about September 1844
Margaret Truax|b. 19 Feb 1757\nd. abt. Sep 1844|p2749.htm|John Truax|b. 27 Aug 1727\nd. aft. 1784|p6774.htm|Margaret Mount||p6775.htm|John Truax|b. abt. 1700\nd. bef. 14 Apr 1778|p6776.htm|Sytje van Kerken|b. 29 May 1704\nd. bef. 1735|p6777.htm|||||||
Father*John Truax b. 27 Aug 1727, d. aft. 1784
Mother*Margaret Mount
ChartsAncestors of Cecil Andrew Smith (#1)
Ancestors of Cecil Andrew Smith (#2)
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. - Cecil Andrew Smith
Margaret Truax was born 19 February 1757 at Monmouth Co., New Jersey.1 She married James Andrew Smith 28 January 1783 at Shelburne Parish, Loudoun Co., Virginia; Although some have said the marriage was in 1773, the copy of the marriage bond is clearly written as 1783, and the court affidavit includes the statement, "She was not married to him prior to his Leaving the Service..."

The children James & Polly are either misplaced as to birth dates, are children of an earlier, unknown marriage, or belong to another Smith family entirely.2 She died about September 1844 at Gibson Co., Indiana.3,4

In 1842 she is described as "...aged and suffering with an attack of the palsy which disenables her to go about and is not able in fact to go out of her room without help."5

Family

James Andrew Smith b. Sep 1755, d. 29 Jan 1838
Marriage*She married James Andrew Smith 28 January 1783 at Shelburne Parish; Although some have said the marriage was in 1773, the copy of the marriage bond is clearly written as 1783, and the court affidavit includes the statement, "She was not married to him prior to his Leaving the Service..."

The children James & Polly are either misplaced as to birth dates, are children of an earlier, unknown marriage, or belong to another Smith family entirely.2 
Children

Citations

  1. [S630] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-land-warrant Application Files, microfilm publication M0804, (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1969), James Smith file no. W.9657, Her final application in 1843 indicated she was 86. In 1757, the Truax family was still in New Jersey, FHL Film 972217, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  2. [S630] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-land-warrant Application Files, James Smith, A transcript dated 2 Feb 1841 of a marriage bond from Loudoun Co., Virginia, for "a marriage shortly intended to be held and solemnized between James Smith & Margaret Truax spinster of Shelburne Parish." James Smith and John Means were co-bondsmen. The bond was dated 25 Jan 1783 and another pension document shows the actual marriage date as the 28th. Printed volumes of Loudoun Co. marriages & bonds do not include this record and it is presumed lost, FHL Film No. 972217.
  3. [S630] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-land-warrant Application Files, James Smith, She made a widow's application for her husbands pension in 1841, which was finally granted, with an arrears payment of $183, in 1843, FHL Film No. 972217.
  4. [S1296] Ancestry.com. U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872, (on-line database), Provo, UT:, The Generations Network, 2007, Madison, Indiana:311. Original data: Ledgers of Payments, 1818-1872, to U.S. Pensioners Under Acts of 1818 Through 1858 From Records of the Office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury, 1818-1872. Hereafter cited as U.S. Pensioners.
  5. [S630] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-land-warrant Application Files, James Smith, FHL Film No. 972217.
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