Earlene, I'm glad to find out who those three Smith children in the Whistler Cemetery belonged to. They were buried near one of my Smiths, but they had no death Certificate listed in the Mobile County Death Index, so I couldn't check them out. I can tell you about Alex McBride Smith and his wife Elizabeth Phillehaw(yaw) Smith. He is the son of Absalom Wm. and Tabitha (McWhorter) Smith and was a locomotive engineer for fifty years, as were most of his brothers. His father Absalom was in Company E of the 21st Alabama and died December 13, 1864 as a prisoner of war on Ship Island(off the Mississippi coast). The historian for the 21st Al stated that the part of Ship Island used to bury Confederate Soldiers was washed away by Hurricane Camille in 1969, leaving no trace of their burial place. Alex's mother Tabitha was last heard of when she appeared on the list of "Maimed Soldiers and Widows of Confederate Soldiers" when the act was approved February 28, 1889 for their relief. She was then still in Mobile Co. Plodding Along in Georgia, Betty