This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chumley/Smith/Pierce Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XlI.2ACIB/34.35.40.63.64.65.133.134.2 Message Board Post: Hi, I think we may have a connection. I am very new at this so please bear with me. My Wm. Young Chumley went to DeKalb County, Alabama around 1835 and homesteaded 400 acres. He ahd 10 children, one was named Baxter. Baxter had a daughter named Betty Chumley(my great grandmother). Betty married David Smith, my great grandfather. They lived on Sand Mountain, Alabama. They had several children. My grandfather James Wesley Smith being one of them. He was born August 17, 1890-91. They had a daughter named Dovey, another son named Marion, another daughter named Nellie and I believe a couple of other sons. My grandfather, James Wesley Smith married Della Pierce. They had two sons, my father, Thurston Paul Pierce Smith, born 3/17/1910, ( I do not know if he is still living). Their second son was born in 1911 or 1912. Della died while giving birth to him. My grandfather later moved to Gadsden, Alabama, where he became a police officer and married Lulabell Cutchens. They had two children, Betty Faye, born 1933, died 1938 and a son who is still living. My grandfather James Wesley Smith died on November 1, 1971 and is buried in Forrest Cemetery, in Gadsden. If you can add to any of this information, I will greatly appreciate it. Many Thanks, Mary Lou