This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4U.2ADI/561.565.1 Message Board Post: I'm happy to see your query -- as I'm "somewhat" familiar with your family -- but not with the daughter you mention -- as I only have five (5) children (her siblings). James Calvin SMITH, b. bet. 1851-1852, AR; age 59 in 1910 Census, Whiteville Township, Baxter County, AR, son of John SMITH and Anna HAMM, m. Catherine "Katie" HAMM, b. abt. 1855, AR. 1) Martha J. SMITH, b. abt. 1875, AR, m. J. L. SAVAGE ON 5 September 1897 in Baxter County, AR; 2) Mary L. SMITH, b. abt. 1877, AR; 3) Nancy E. SMITH, abt. 1878, AR; 4) James Leeter SMITH, b. 12 December 1879, Barren Creek Township, Baxter County, AR (1910C Barren Creek Township, Baxter County, AR, Age 30), d. 19 November 1950, Broken Arrow, Tulsa County, OK; m. 1) Hettie Ora KNIGHT, dau of Benjamin Franklin KNIGHT and Angeline Virginia BAGWELL; 2) Johnnie Irene BAGWELL; 5) Sarah Viola "Kate" SMITH, b. 22 February 1884, Sharp County, AR, d. 11 May 1963, m. 31 July 1904, Baxter County, AR to Joseph Morton ADAMS. First, let me say that I have no known kinship to this family. My interest is firsthand though, as I was born and raised in Broken Arrow, and remember when Jim SMITH died suddenly of a heart attack. Their son, Jim Roy, and late daughter Carol and I were about same age and we played together and sometimes I spent the night with Carol. My family and the BAGWELLs were friends in Arkansas and Broken Arrow. We also knew the daughters of Hettie Ora and James Leeter SMITH: Thelma LEA, Ora MAXEY and Bernice MAXEY. They communicated with my mother until she died in 1993 --now, they're all deceased. My great-great-grandfather, William Alexander RIDGWAY (1825, Weakley County, TN - 1917, Shady Grove, near Buford, Baxter County, AR, knew Angeline Virginia {BAGWELL} "Aunt Puss" KNIGHT. Hettie Ora and her mother, James Leeter and Johnnie {BAGWELL} SMITH are all buried at Park Grove Cemetery in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. I've been trying to sort out this SMITH family for years -- from another major one who also lived at Buford -- and would welcome any information you have. Please reply to this Board and the message will be sent to me. Are you descended from the WHITFIELD - SMITH union? Peggy {King} Truesdell Tulsa, Oklahoma

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