This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SMITH, FORD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fm.2ADE/235 Message Board Post: Looking for information about William SMITH born ENG about 1833. He left Detroit MI with his wife Mary FORD about 1864 and was living in Leavenworth KS in 1868 and 1871 according to his parent's probate records. He was a blacksmith and a carriage maker. Children were Horace G and William J SMITH, probably born between 1860 and 1870, and Grace Beatrice b. 1871. Does anyone have cemetery records for the area? His wife Mary died between 1871 and 1880.