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William Smeathers
William "Bill" Smeathers (c. 1767 – August 13, 1837), also known as Smithers or Smothers,〔( Sons of DeWitt Colony, Texas )〕〔(Handbook of Texas Online )〕 was a pioneer settler of Kentucky and later Texas.
Not much is known about his early days. He is believed to have been born in either Pennsylvania, Virginia or North Carolina. He may have been born as early as 1759〔(Sons of the American Revolution, Texas Society )〕 or as late as 1767.〔 When Smeathers was 12 his father was killed by Indians and his mother died shortly thereafter, leaving young Smeathers to tend to his younger brother James and sister Mollie.〔 He was married twice, the second time to Mary Winters of Tennessee. He had two sons, John and Archibald, and four daughters.〔
==Kentucky==
In 1782 he was one of the first settlers in the Rough River area of Kentucky, where he built Smeathers Station.〔 Smeathers was also an early settler of Fort Hartford (present-day Hartford in Ohio County), and he helped to build a fort at Vienna (later Calhoun in McLean County) on the Green River in the early 1780s.〔(Kentucky Historical Marker database, #1548 )〕 In 1797 or 1798 he built a home on the Ohio River, at a site that became known as Yellow Banks, becoming the first settler in what is now Owensboro, Kentucky.〔(Kleber, J, ''The Kentucky encyclopedia'', University Press of Kentucky, Third Printing, 1992 )〕 Smeathers served on first grand jury of Court of Quarter Sessions at Hartford, 1803. In 1808 he was appointed land commissioner of Ohio County. In 1809 he was tried for murder (under the name Bill Smothers〔Taylor, Harrison and Taylor, Anthony, ''Ohio County, Kentucky, in the Early Days,'' originally published Louisville, Kentucky, 1926, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1997, ISBN 0-8063-4710-4, p.25-27〕) for killing a man who had allegedly raped his sister. He was acquitted but was advised to leave the area temporarily for his own safety.〔 He served in the Kentucky "Corn Stalk" militia in 1803,〔 and he served in the War of 1812 as a captain in the Kentucky Mounted Spies under the command of Major Toussaint Dubois.〔(Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, Soldiers of the War of 1812, page 22. ) His name on the list is garbled as "Captain William Smeatiiers" and "William Sineather"〕
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