Gabe was born 27 July 1848 in Louisiana.
He died 20 July 1925 in Callahan County, Texas.
Burial was in Oplin Cemetery of Callahan County, Texas.
Gabe was a son of Joseph C. Smart of Tennessee. Though Gabe was born in Louisiana, Joseph had moved his family to Texas by 1870. On 18 December 1878, in Denton County, Gabe married Cynthia A. Crowder. He was 30 years old, and she was 10 years his junior.
Gabe pursued the occupation of farming most, if not all, of his life. According to the agriculture schedule of the 1880 US Federal census for Callahan County, Texas, Gabe was a sharecropper.
A few years before his death, Gabe wrote his last will and testament. In it, he left everything to his wife, Cynthia. Upon her death, everything was to be split evenly between his two daughters, Mrs. Minnie Lincecum and Mrs. Nettie Miller.
 |
| Page 1 of Gabe's Will (Click to enlarge.) |
 |
| Page 2 of Gabe's Will |
Note: Gabe's daughter Minnie (1881-1965) was a wife of Walter Win Lincecum (1882-1966), though the couple divorced before 1950.
📚 BOOK #AD -- Texas Bucket List Adventure Guide -- Explore 100 Offbeat Destinations You Must Visit! (As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualified purchases.)
