In a message dated 8/28/00 9:45:31 AM Central Daylight Time, richardlu@tds.net writes: << On his mothers side, his grandparents were John Lewis Rivers and Rose Hurst and on the Cash side William Henry Cash and Rebecca Sarah J. Overton. Richard >> Thanks, Richard. You helped me a lot. Recently I came across an old letter written by my sister (who knew nothing about our family history) stating that Cash's mother was from our Washington B. Smith line. I have a pretty good handle on my Smiths and I felt that the information was incorrect - as confirmed by you. Thanks. If you are kin to Johnny Cash, it follows that you would have to be kin to old man Dave, also. I ain't strong enough for that. Wilkie