John Rentaus Smith as married on August 29th, 1820, in Salem to GERTRAUT SAIOME SPONEHAUER later called Gertrude Salome.  They are buried in the Salem graveyard.  Their son DAVID ZEISBERGER SMITH (born, I believe, 1821) had a daughter who married AARON BENSON.  These were the parents of CLARENCE H BENSON.  Another daughter was MARY SMITH, of Bethlehem.   A son was THEODORE SMITH, of Winston-Salem, John Renatus and Gertrude Salome had a daughter, CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH GREEN SMITH, who married, in 1850, EDWIN EBENEZER REINKE. 

The Spoenhauer (Spainhour) families of Bethany, N.C. (together with the Conrad and Grabe families [according to Rev. F. W. Grabs],) are descended from two brothers who were among the colony that settled Bethania.  The ancestor of Gertraut Salome was WERNER SPOENHAUER who came to America in 1740, apparently from Basel, Switzerland.

Smith-Reinke Connection

(From the Archvies; courtesy of Brother Kenneth Hamilton) : MELCHOIR SCHMIDT, born in Zauchtenthal, Moravia, June 4 1721, married in Bethlehem, 1749 to CATHARINE MARGARET FISCHER, who was born in Ebersdorf, April 18, 1726 and died in Nazareth, November 23, 1799.   JOHANNES SCHMIDT, son of the above, born in Nazareth May 27, 1757, and became the chief baker in Bethlehem.  Married in Bethlehem in May 31, 1781, to ANNA ELISABETH GRUN, who was born in Gnedenthal near Nazereth, September 11th, 1759, the eldest daughter of Johan Georg and Anna Elizabeth Weber Grun, natives of Wittgenstein, Germany; and died in Bethlehem November 6, 1789, leaving two children, Johannes's date and place of death are not given.

Johann Renatus Smith, son of Johannes and Anna Elizabeth, born in Bethlehem February 11, 1784.  Johann Renatus, after serving among the Delaware's and in New Fairfield, Canada, was called on the Cherokee Mission in Georgia, and on going south changed his name to John Renatus Smith.