If you are in fact connected to this Smith or McLeroy family I would like to talk to you. These are "my people".... and my grandmother still lives on the McLeroy homeplace. In a message dated 6/19/00 9:10:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, denjer@cdh.net writes: << Concerning JAMES M. SMITH: There are two listing of a James M. Smith in the 1850 census. James M. Smith,8-12 months. He is the son of Ferdinand and Mary B.(McElroy) Smith. There is a James M. Smith buried in the McElroy cemetery in Madison County. The Madison County Cemetery Book identified him as the "son of Ferdinand". He was born February 09, 1849 and died July 23, 1851. The 1860 census still list the son of Ferdinand and Mary as being 9 years old. >>