Smith had three children of her own: Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Lee Smith Kirby, U.S. Army (1836-1862), who was killed in action during the United States Civil War in Corinth, Mississippi; Emma Jerome Kirby Blackwood (1840-1916); and Second Lieutenant George Geddes Kirby (1843-1875), an Ensign during the U.S. Civil War and later a lieutenant stationed in Wyoming who took his own life.
Smith had three children of her own: Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Lee Smith Kirby, U.S. Army (1836-1862), who died in battle during the United States Civil War at Corinth, Mississippi; Emma Jerome Kirby Blackwood (1840-1916); and Second Lieutenant George Geddes Kirby (1843-1875), an Ensign during the U.S. Civil War and later a lieutenant stationed in Wyoming who took his own life.