This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Gillespie Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VV.2ADE/474 Message Board Post: My great-grandfather, Joseph Aldridge Smith, was born in Viola, Fulton County, Arkansas on 15 Apr 1882. Joseph's parents were Samuel Smith and Annie Gillespie. My grandmother said Samuel died when Joseph was 2 years old (about 1884) and his mother Annie died when he was 14 (about 1896). She also told me her father's siblings names were Samuel, Callie and Margaret, who they called "Maggie". The 1880 Census of Fulton Co. Arkansas shows this family living in Fulton Township as follows: Smith, Samuel 33 Tennessee Sarah 25 Kentucky Sarah 5 Texas Samuel 3 Arkansas Margaret 9 months Arkansas I'm pretty sure this is my great-grandfather's family. Samuel's wife is listed as Sarah, so I assume her name was Sarah Ann. His oldest child Sarah was probably my grandmother's Aunt Callie. It is notable that she was born in Texas. I don't have a clue where in Texas they lived, but the family obviously moved from Texas to Arkansas sometime between 1875 and 1877. I was also told that Samuel's widow remarried. Can anyone provide any information on this family?