Researching William Smoot
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2 people with the Smoot surname? In that year Smoot was ranked number 3577 for popularity in the UK. |
The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Smoot on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Smoot and the Smoot Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Smoot Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Smoot family tree.
Check out Parish Records for William Smoot at Find My Past.
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Smoot Family Tree Databases
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Smoot Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 12153 people with the Smoot surname in the USA? Smoot is ranked number 153 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Smoot Databases
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Some Famous People called William Smoot
William Smoot
Elder William M. Smoot William M. Smoot (about 1848-1938) was a resident of Occoquan, Virginia and for many years was a leading Predestinarian Old School Primitive Baptist preacher in Prince William County. He was the preacher of Occoquan (also known as Bacon Race to those outside the membership of those associated with Elder Smoot) and Quantico Baptist churches from 1888 to 1938. A GOD-called preacher of the original faith and order of the Baptists in America, Elder Smoot, whose followers were known locally as "Smootites," engaged in a heated rivalry over doctrine and practice as set forth in the Bible(KJV) with the reverend Thomas D.D. Clark, whose Union Baptist Church was located across the road from the Quantico Baptist Church in the village of Independent Hill.
Elder Smoot was a prolific writer of religious tracts setting forth the true order of predestination, election, total depravity of all humans in their natural state, with GOD's elect children being called in the Spiritual birth while they lived upon this earth, and their sanctification and preservation are eternal; including several books and pamphlets, and a monthly newsletter he printed himself on a press set up in his home in Occoquan. This newsletter, "The Sectarian" devoted to the Cause of the Anti-Means, Old School, Predestinarian, or Bible Baptists" appeared in monthly installments from 1890 until Elder Smoot's death in 1938. In 1904 Elder Smoot also published a collection of 698 hymns, called "The Sectarian Hymnal".
Elder Smoot died at his home in 1938 at the age of 90. He was found on his front porch seated in a chair with his Bible in his hand and glasses still on his nose.
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