You wrote: There were 2 Enoch Smiths in Bibb Co. One was son of Adam & Eliz. Gomer, b.1816. The other I think might be son of John and Catherine Cost Smith b abt 1819. > On 1850 Bibb Co. Census lived John & Cath. Cost and nx door lived Enoch & > Eliz. Coker Smith(my GGGparents) Again on 1870 census Baker Co. was John > Smith widowed, with children & John & Cath. Cost nearby. Also Wm. Coker, > Eliz Coker's father was near. > I believe John & Cath. Cost may have had the 1st child, Enoch Smith, & he > doesn't show up on 1850 census. If anyone might know of a will of John or > Catherine Cost, that may list the children, would appreciate knowing. I > have been looking for the answer of the 2 Enoch Smiths, for a long while. > Thanks for any help. neldathompson@sbcglobal.net Hi Nelda and all Bibb researchers ~ Several years ago Pat Kling-Black (former and probably 1st ALBIBB list coordinator) and I tried to link my gt. x 2 grandfather,THOMAS SMITH, from Va., N.C. and Bledsoe Co., Tenn., to the "other" SMITHS in Bibb Co. - without success. I still don't know of any connection and the Smith name is so common that there may not be a connection. I suspect he and his wife, Mary Vernon, traveled with a group from N.C. to Tenn. to Tuscaloosa and then Bibb Co. as their son, Andrew David Smith, finally settled in Scottsville near Vernontown. If anyone has done any research on the early SMITHS in Bibb please let us know. Caroline Horton, ALBIBB List Administrator

Caroline, Most of my early Smith info. came to me by way of U.V. Waldrop. He researched extensively in the Smith Ancestry. He shows our earlier Smith's did come from NC. We do have a Thomas Smith, son of our Adam and Eliz. Gomer Smith. Thomas was b. in 1815. Some of his siblings show to be b. NC, he does not and has a wife named Ailsey Pitts. This line of Smith's are in Bibb Co. in 1830 census. Adam Smith(Schmidts) came from Germany as well as his wife Eliz. Thomas & Ailsey do have a son named David, which is different, from the usual John, James, Jacob, Joseph, etc. Doesn't show when he was b. Thomas & Ailsey are buried Pitts-Martin Cemetery, Mars Hill, AL. Nelda -----Original Message----- From: albibb-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:albibb-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of caroline Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 5:10 PM To: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com; albibb@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ALBIBB] CATHERINE COST SMITH B. 1800 D. ABT 1860 B. TEMP-SMITHCEM You wrote: There were 2 Enoch Smiths in Bibb Co. One was son of Adam & Eliz. Gomer, b.1816. The other I think might be son of John and Catherine Cost Smith b abt 1819. > On 1850 Bibb Co. Census lived John & Cath. Cost and nx door lived Enoch & > Eliz. Coker Smith(my GGGparents) Again on 1870 census Baker Co. was John > Smith widowed, with children & John & Cath. Cost nearby. Also Wm. Coker, > Eliz Coker's father was near. > I believe John & Cath. Cost may have had the 1st child, Enoch Smith, & he > doesn't show up on 1850 census. If anyone might know of a will of John or > Catherine Cost, that may list the children, would appreciate knowing. I > have been looking for the answer of the 2 Enoch Smiths, for a long while. > Thanks for any help. neldathompson@sbcglobal.net Hi Nelda and all Bibb researchers ~ Several years ago Pat Kling-Black (former and probably 1st ALBIBB list coordinator) and I tried to link my gt. x 2 grandfather,THOMAS SMITH, from Va., N.C. and Bledsoe Co., Tenn., to the "other" SMITHS in Bibb Co. - without success. I still don't know of any connection and the Smith name is so common that there may not be a connection. I suspect he and his wife, Mary Vernon, traveled with a group from N.C. to Tenn. to Tuscaloosa and then Bibb Co. as their son, Andrew David Smith, finally settled in Scottsville near Vernontown. If anyone has done any research on the early SMITHS in Bibb please let us know. Caroline Horton, ALBIBB List Administrator ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALBIBB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.4.10/1551 - Release Date: 7/14/2008 6:49 AM

Nelda, your line must be one of those earlier Smiths. My gt. gf Andrew David Smith was b. in Bledsoe Co., Tenn. in 1832. The family story is that not long after the family reached the Tuscaloosa/Bibb area, when my gt. gf was a young boy, his father, Thomas (who was definitely m. to Mary Vernon) died - in Greene Co. In McCords cemetery book he lists a marker for Thomas Smith at Union Cemetery but it isn't there now. I've always thought it was a memorial marker. And just last week I was sifting and organizing, for the hundreth time, my genealogy notes. I found a page where I had printed info several years ago on a Thomas Smith with a marker at Old Bethel Church in Ralph, Ala. There is also a marker for whom I assume is his 18 month old son, Ezekiel T. Smith, with "son of T. and M. Smith" on it. I looked for Ralph and, by golly, it is in Tuscaloosa Co. but almost on the Greene Co. line and so he could have died in Greene and been buried in Tuscaloosa or the county lines could have changed slightly since that time. Can't wait to take a trip to Ralph! This was printed from the rootsweb altuscal cemetery listing. Caroline ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nelda Thompson" <neldathompson@sbcglobal.net> To: <albibb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 8:25 PM Subject: Re: [ALBIBB] CATHERINE COST SMITH B. 1800 D. ABT 1860 B.TEMP-SMITHCEM > Caroline, > Most of my early Smith info. came to me by way of U.V. Waldrop. He> > researched extensively in the Smith Ancestry. He shows our earlier> > Smith's did come from NC. We do have a Thomas Smith, son of our Adam> and > Eliz. Gomer Smith. Thomas was b. in 1815. Some of his siblings > show to > be b. NC, he does not and has a wife named Ailsey Pitts. This> line of > Smith's are in Bibb Co. in 1830 census. Adam Smith(Schmidts)> came from > Germany as well as his wife Eliz. Thomas & Ailsey do have > a son named David, which is different, from the usual John, James,> Jacob, > Joseph, etc. Doesn't show when he was b. Thomas & Ailsey are> buried > Pitts-Martin Cemetery, Mars Hill, AL.> > Nelda > You wrote: There were 2 Enoch Smiths in Bibb Co. One was son of Adam & > > Eliz. Gomer, b.1816. The other I think might be son of John and Catherine > > Cost Smith b abt 1819. >> On 1850 Bibb Co. Census lived John & Cath. Cost and nx door lived Enoch & >> >> Eliz. Coker Smith(my GGGparents) Again on 1870 census Baker Co. was >> John >> Smith widowed, with children & John & Cath. Cost nearby. Also Wm. >> Coker, >> Eliz Coker's father was near. > >> I believe John & Cath. Cost may have had the 1st child, Enoch Smith, & he >> >> doesn't show up on 1850 census. If anyone might know of a will of John >> or >> Catherine Cost, that may list the children, would appreciate >> knowing. I >> have been looking for the answer of the 2 Enoch Smiths, for >> a long while. > >> Thanks for any help. neldathompson@sbcglobal.net > > Hi Nelda and all Bibb researchers ~ > > Several years ago Pat Kling-Black (former and probably 1st ALBIBB list > > coordinator) and I tried to link my gt. x 2 grandfather,THOMAS SMITH, from > > Va., N.C. and Bledsoe Co., Tenn., to the "other" SMITHS in Bibb Co. - > > without success. > > I still don't know of any connection and the Smith name is so common that > > there may not be a connection. I suspect he and his wife, Mary Vernon, > > traveled with a group from N.C. to Tenn. to Tuscaloosa and then Bibb Co. > as > their son, Andrew David Smith, finally settled in Scottsville near > > Vernontown. > > If anyone has done any research on the early SMITHS in Bibb please let us > > know. > > Caroline Horton, > ALBIBB List Administrator