I am trying to find any information at all on my ggrandmother. The story our family thinks is true is that her parents names were Jim or Tom and Martha Jones. Martha was an indian and maybe Tom or Jim was too. My ggrandmothers name when she was born was something like Reddy or Rudy or maybe Riddie Jones. That would've been around 1897. At some point when my ggrandmother was a very small girl, maybe 3 or 4, her father killed her mother. We don't know exactly what happened but after that my ggrandmother ended up living in a mining camp. For some reason she was supposed to stay in a house on the camp and whoever lived in that house took care of her. Until John and Pearl Smith moved in. They took her with them when they left the camp. Pearl was a holyroller and preached quite a bit, I believe. John played the fiddle and was called fiddlin John. He might have been running from the law when they left the mining camp. And I should say, I know that John and Pearl lived in Marshall co. at one time, but I'm not sure that's where they were when they took my ggrandmother. In 1900 they were living in Grundy co. Tn. with no kids. In 1902 they were in Orme, TN, where Pearl had her first child, Cleve, and they already had my ggrandmother with them then. So they could've been anywhere in that vicinity. If any of this sounds familiar to anyone, we are desperate for any clue at all. Has anyone ever heard of orphans being left at mining camps before? Thanks, Debra Westervelt, Valdosta, GA