Linda, Do believe you have helped find an ancestor family for Carri Vance. Giles Smith might be related to W B Smith or Beal Smith? Do you have a Beal or W B Smith in your family? Know that Beal Smith lived in Johnson County,Arkansas. Giles may have had a first name and used Giles as his givenname because of so many Johns,James and Williams in the family. Checked my Arkansas Union Soldiers and Confederate Soldiers Indexes and found the following information in the Arkansas Confederate Soldiers Pension Index. Giles Smith Co. A, Sixth Arkansas Infantry Applied 1901 in Johnson Co.Arkansas for his Confederate Civil War Pension. So know he was alive in 1901 in Johnson Co.AR. You might want to check the Johnson Co.AR. web site or the 1900 Johnson County,Arkansas census. Also check out these sites: f you want to order the forms for the Arkansas or other states Union Soldiers Pension and Military records go to this site: <A HREF="http://www.nara.gov/nara/mail.html">National Archives and Records Administration:...</A> http://www.nara.gov/nara/mail.html --------- Write or E-mal Arkansas History Commission for Giles Smith's Confederate Civil War Pension Record. Do not have that site available. Edward R Gerdes Civil War Page is also where you can submit questions about the CSA soldiers on the 1911 CSA Index and they do look-ups there. http://idt.net/~jfultz19/1911intv.htm -------- this is the National Park Service site <A HREF="http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/">Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System </A> http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ ---------- <A HREF="http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/">The Original Arkansas Genealogy Project,Civil...</A> http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/ this site might link to the Edward R Gerdes Civil War Site believe AOL users were having trouble connecting to these sites. You might have to use a different company to access these sites now. Also check Cindi's Lists for more information on Civil War Soldiers. ---------- <A HREF="http://www.arkansasresearch.com/Desmil.htm">Arkansas Research - Military Records</A> the site above is Desmond Walls Allen's Site she has an index of soldiers both Confederate and Union and also the 1911 CSA Index http://www.arkansasresearch.com/Desmil.htm ----------- the site below is a very good site <A HREF="http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html">The American Civil War Homepage</A> http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html Evelyn Flood RKinfolks@aol.com GENEALOGY MEM-O-RA-BIL-IA Visit these web pages: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rkinfolks http://www.rootsweb.com/~arnewton/index.htm http://hometown.aol.com/rkinfolks/myhomepage/heritage.html http://www.mcrush.com/history/