William "Bill" Smeathers (c. 1767 – August 13, 1837), also known as Smithers or Smothers,[1][2] was a pioneer settler of Kentucky and later Texas.
[2] In 1782 he was one of the first settlers in the Rough River area of Kentucky, where he built Smeathers Station.
[2] Smeathers was also an early settler of Fort Hartford (present-day Hartford in Ohio County), and he helped to build a fort at Vienna (later Calhoun in McLean County) on the Green River in the early 1780s.
[4] In 1797 or 1798 he built a home on the Ohio River, at a site that became known as Yellow Banks, becoming the first settler in what is now Owensboro, Kentucky.
Later he was one of the first settlers in the DeWitt Colony in the Lavaca River valley area near current Hallettsville.