Help! I need help finding the parents of my husband's gg grandfather. The family story says that he was born when his mother came to Texas with her family from either Tenn. or Miss. The story says that the baby was not yet due. The mother a "Miss Cleveland/Cleaveland" later married a Mr. Foster and lived in Callahan County Tx. The baby was named for his father as the story goes and so his name was John Milton Smith. The stepfather mistreated John and he ran away "at an early age." His birthdate is on record as 1857. So he would be with his mother on the 1860 census but where? I don't know any first names for sure. One member of the family said that they thought that his mother was named Jane. Callahan Co is in the middle of the state. Is it reasonable to assume that the family stopped somewhere in East Texas first? I do not know the names of Miss Cleveland's parents or other family members. The child's real father was supposed to have been killed building a bridge across the Mississippi. All of this is word of mouth family history. I have no proof of any of it. Should I disregard the story? How would you begin? Please help! Linda Bowden