Here is the family of William A. Smith from http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1536653&id=I6842 0760 ID: I68420760 Name: William A SMITH Given Name: William A Surname: Smith Sex: M Birth: 22 April 1832 in Foster Twp. Marion Co., Illinois Death: 5 Dec 1862 Civil War in Coffeeville, Mississippi Father: Mordecai SMITH b: 1 April 1804 in Elizabeth City, N.C. Mother: Sarah PURSLEY b: 12 Sept. 1815 in Bond Co. Illinois Marriage 1 Mary "Polly" FOSTER b: 14 March 1837 in Illinois Married: 12 August 1851 in Marion Co. Illinois Children Mary Hester SMITH b: 19 Janurary 1857 in Foster Twp. ,Marion Co., Illinois Diora SMITH b: 14 Sept. 1852 in Foster Twp. Marion Co. Il. Byron SMITH b: 20 August 1854 Walter Scott SMITH b: 20 April 1859 in Foster Twp. Marion Co. Illinois William Rollin SMITH b: 18 Feb. 1861 in Foster Twp. Marion Co. Illinois

Dave, you will enjoy this story. Go look it up. Sarah Pursley's mother rescued Tom Higgins at Hills Fort in Bond County when the Indians were in the act of giving him a skin deep hair cut. mebrimberry