Patty, Thanks for the note. My father is the first of our Smiths to marry into the Hamrick/McSwain/etc. tree, so the names you mention don't seem true for my family. "We" came from Alabama to Georgia sometime late last century. When I visited Atlanta several weeks ago, my father took me to a cemetery where some of the Smiths (and assorted marry-in's) are buried. The cemetery (it was a large one and the only one I've ever seen built on really mountainous hills) is now a forest and we couldn't find the plots. Since then, my sister has contacted someone who had a map of the cemetery and they've found the site. I look forward to visiting and seeing if we can find names and dates. Until I can get some of my Smith names and dates to be unique enough to research, I'm sticking with Hamrick and Barry (my mother's families). Thanks, Ted ______________________________ > X-Message: #3 > Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:55:29 EDT > From: Ajhh5 <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [HAMRICK-L] Searching for Joseph Byers > Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Ted, > I have lineage thru Hamrick, McSwain, and Smiths too. > > If any of these names ring a bell with you Smith background please email me > back. > > Samuel Smith married to Luch Beecher. (Lucy's mother name was Sarah Plumb) > Melvin Smith married Ester (married approx. May 1834) > Lennie Smith married William Xenophen Hamrick > > Thanks, > Patty Hamrick Hayes > [email protected]