Was there a John Smith onboard the Sultana? The John Smith I am inquiring about lived in Bridgeport, Ct in 1860 where his son John Lawrence Smith was born and was married to Mary Elizabeth( maiden surname unknown). He,Mary ELizabeth, and John Lawrence Smith may have moved to New York where Katherine Mae Smith born in 1864 may have been born. Mary Elizabeth was pregnant at the time of John's death and gave birth to a daughter named Minnie, shortly before her own death in 1866 at Bellevue Hospital in New York.