This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gross, Smock Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IWg.2ACIB/1204 Message Board Post: Richard Gross (abt. 1799-1842)/Rachel Smock (1805- after 1880) of Smyth County, VA had seven children - Eleanor, Mary, Richard, Barbara, James S., Leah, and Sarah E. A granddaughter in 1908 attempted to claim Cherokee Indian blood through Rachel Smock by claiming Rachel's father was Cherokee. Rachel's mother was Letty Baker Smock Gross. Does anyone else in the Gross tree have any information relating to this?