This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5AB.2ACE/3124 Message Board Post: Seeking historical information on these two Jackson County pioneer families. Smith family researchers are in need of any information that descendents may have of Isham's parents. Currently we believe that Isham's father was also named Charles but we have no reliable information on who his mother was. We believe that both Isham and Charles and their wives Larken Abner and Margaret Anglin are buried in Jackson County on Jack's Ridge in the "Isham Smith" cemetery, about 5 miles S.E. of McKey. If local searchers can confirm this we would greatly appreciate your help. It is believed that Isham died about 1850 and Charles about 1875. We also are in need of the names of Isham and Larken's other children. The 1840 Clay County census reports they had at least 7 children, 4 sons and 3 daughters, but the only name known of a child is that of Charles. Charles and Margaret had 5 sons and four daughters shown in the 1860 Jackson County census. ---Charles 39, Margaret 34. James 16, Isham 15, Jane 12, Susan 10, Nancy 8, Elizabeth 6, Speed 5, Green C. 3 and Lafayette 1. Information concerning the location of their farms would also be of interest. Our thanks for any help you can share with us. We are cousins descended from Charles Smith who settled in Kentucky in the late 1700s.