Paulina Ellen Churchman

• Sex: F
• Born: June 11, 1838 in Jefferson County, Kentucky
• Died: February 9, 1910 in Jefferson County, Kentucky
• Buried: In the Churchman Family Cemetery on Henry Street, Louisville, KY
• Notes: Paulina went by the name of Pliney. It is told that Pliney was a little skinny woman who always wore a sunbonnet and a black dress. No one ever left her house without a gift of some kind, even if it was just a clipping out of the newspaper. Visiting children were allowed to reach into her apron pocket for their gifts, which may be a hair ribbon, candy, small toy, etc. She always took a mid-morning snack to her husband when he was working in the fields.
  
  This is another example of brothers marrying sisters: Cyrus and Paulina Churchman, brother and sister, married Abigail and Charles Smoot, sister and brother.
  
  To read the newspaper account of Pliney Smoot's death, please click HERE.

Father: Elijah Churchman, Jr., b. October 24, 1782 in Nottingham, PA

Mother: Elizabeth Paul, b. 1799 in Augusta County, VA -- d. May 13, 1849 in Jefferson County, KY

Family 1: Charles Carroll Smoot, b. February 11, 1836 in Jefferson County, KY -- d. March 8, 1914 in Jefferson County, KY -- buried in the Churchman Family Cemetery on Henry Street, Louisville, KY -- son of Philip Barton Smoot and Mary Elizabeth King

• Married: February 9, 1860 in Jefferson County, KY

1. Mary Elizabeth Smoot, b. in Jefferson County, KY
2. Alex Smoot, b. in Jefferson County, KY
3. Cyrus Smoot, b. in Jefferson County, KY
4. Nancy Ellen Smoot, b. 1863 in Jefferson County, KY
5. Sarah Alexander Smoot, b. April 2, 1867 in Jefferson County, KY
6. Emma Smoot, b. 1868 in Jefferson County, KY
7. Thomas King Smoot, b. 1872 in Jefferson County, KY
8. Annie Smoot, b. in Jefferson County, KY
9. Charles Everett Smoot, b. September 15, 1880 in Jefferson County, KY

Sources:

1. "Churchmans of Kentucky" by Charles R. Churchman