Robert Lee Smith
Born 07/07/1795 died at the age of 81 on 09/06/1876
Married Mary (Polly) Snodgrass on 09/09/1820
Both Mary and Robert were 24 but Robert would be 25 in 15 days.
Robert was older than Mary by 69 days.
Robert was 40 years old when
Photography was Invented.
So far no pictures of him have been found.
| During his life there were 18 Presidents | |
| 1 | George Washington |
| 2 | John Adams |
| 3 | Thomas Jefferson |
| 4 | James Madison |
| 5 | James Monroe |
| 6 | John Quincy Adams |
| 7 | Andrew Jackson |
| 8 | Martin Van Buren |
| 9 | William Henry Harrison |
| 10 | John Tyler |
| 11 | James K. Polk |
| 12 | Zachary Taylor |
| 13 | Millard Fillmore |
| 14 | Franklin Pierce |
| 15 | James Buchanan |
| 16 | Abraham Lincoln |
| 17 | Andrew Johnson |
| 18 | Ulysses S. Grant |
Lexington, Kentucky had it's first house built 18 years before Robert was born.
Robert was 27 when his first child was born and 41 when his 8th child was born.
He would have 4 of his 8 children die before him.
Born 2 years after the Cotton Gin was invented,
but 1 year before the
Wilderness Road
was improved by Daniel Boon to allow wagon travel.
8 years old when the Louisiana Purchase occurred in 1803.
16 years old when the war of 1812 started. Daniel Boon was 78.
19 years old when the Star Spangled Banner was written.
30 when the Erie Canal opened in 1825
33 when Cholera killed 502 in Lexington, Kentucky in 1833
40 when Mexicans attack Texans at the Alamo in San Antonio, TX. in 1836
65 when Confederate States of America setup with Jefferson Davis as President in 1861
76 when Chicago Burned
80 when the First Telephone Call was made in 1876
Robert died before the
Spanish American war
and may have never heard of an Automobile.
WWI would not happen until 40 years after his death.
Robert was born and died in Harrison Co. Kentucky.
From his years between 18 and 27 (before he was married),
I wonder if he took part in the War of 1812?
Harrison County Kentucky was 2 years old when Robert was born.
Harrison County was the seventeenth county in Kentucky
and is located in north central part of Kentucky.
Harrison County is bordered by the counties of
Bourbon, Grant, Nicholas, Pendleton, Robertson, and Scott
and covers an area of 310 square miles.
Formed on December 21, 1793, out of portions of Bourbon and Scott counties.
Harrison County was named in honor of Colonel Benjamin Harrison of Pennsylvania,
who settled in Bourbon County and wrote part of the constitution of Kentucky.