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John Henderson Smith
3× great-grandfather of Michael
- Surname line
- Smith
- Living status
- Deceased
- Evidence
- confirmed
Events
No dated event is published for this person.
Relationships
Partners
- Dollie Despain Smith confirmed
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Children
- Anna Velora Smith Fleenor confirmed
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claim:john-smith:parent-of:1
Claim ledger
Every exported claim about this person: what it says, how strong its best source is (tier 1 = original record image, 5 = unsourced lead), its review state, and the sources that carry it. Source links open the workings page for that citation.
| Claim | Predicate | Summary | Status | Tier | Review | Sources |
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claim:john-smith:name:1 | name | John Henderson Smith Anna Velora Smith's delayed birth record names John Henderson Smith as her father, and Dollie Despain's marriage index identifies the spouse in the same parental pair. | confirmed | 2 · official-transcript | accepted |
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claim:john-smith:living-status:1 | living-status | deceased The nineteenth-century marriage and the delayed birth record establish a historical, deceased generation; no death record has been inspected. | supported | 2 · official-transcript | accepted |
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claim:john-smith:spouse-of:1 | spouse-of | spouse-of Dollie Despain Smith Dollie Despain's 1887 Iowa marriage index names the couple, and Anna Velora Smith's delayed birth record names John Henderson Smith and Dolly Despain as her parents. | confirmed | 2 · official-transcript | accepted |
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claim:john-smith:parent-of:1 | parent-of | parent-of Anna Velora Smith Fleenor Anna Velora Smith's Iowa delayed birth record names John Henderson Smith as her father. | confirmed | 2 · official-transcript | accepted |
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Conflicts and open questions
Question
question:paul-fleenor:parentage(open)Which original record images can independently confirm the newly indexed Fleenor-to-Hanks chain? Authenticated indexes now name Otis Fleenor and Anna Smith as Paul Theodore Fleenor's parents, Dollie Despain and John Henderson Smith as Anna's parents, Martha Beans and Milton Despain as Dollie's parents, and Mahala Hall and William Beams as Martha's parents. Wilson/Davis and Genetic Lincoln research continue the line through Nancy Hanks Hall to Joseph Hanks and Ann Lee. The old Nancy Hanks DeSpain → Dollie route is superseded, not part of this path.
Next: Open and archive the underlying Iowa record images for the four FamilySearch indexes, identify the exact 1850 Beams household schedule, and seek probate, Bible, or civil evidence naming Mahala as Nancy Hanks Hall's daughter. Until those checks are complete, publish the resulting relationship to Abraham Lincoln as likely second cousins six times removed and strongly supported research—not a fully confirmed pedigree.
claim:otis-fleenor:parent-of:1confirmed Otis Oscar Fleenor: parent-of Paul T. Fleenorclaim:anna-smith-fleenor:parent-of:1confirmed Anna Velora Smith Fleenor: parent-of Paul T. Fleenorclaim:john-smith:parent-of:1confirmed John Henderson Smith: parent-of Anna Velora Smith Fleenorclaim:dolly-despain-smith:parent-of:1confirmed Dollie Despain Smith: parent-of Anna Velora Smith Fleenorclaim:milton-despain:parent-of:1confirmed Milton Despain: parent-of Dollie Despain Smithclaim:martha-beames:parent-of:1confirmed Martha Ann Beames: parent-of Dollie Despain Smithclaim:william-beams:parent-of:1confirmed William Beams: parent-of Martha Ann Beamesclaim:mahala-hall:parent-of:1confirmed Mahala Hall Beams: parent-of Martha Ann Beamesclaim:levi-hall:parent-of:1supported Levi Hall: parent-of Mahala Hall Beamsclaim:nancy-hanks-hall:parent-of:1supported Nancy Hanks Hall: parent-of Mahala Hall Beamsclaim:joseph-hanks:parent-of:3supported Joseph Hanks: parent-of Nancy Hanks Hallclaim:ann-lee:parent-of:3supported Ann Lee: parent-of Nancy Hanks Hall
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