This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DORTCH, SMITH, BARNETT, BADGER, BLACK Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DCB.2ACE/38.64.2.1 Message Board Post: Mary Ann DORTCH m. Benjamin Luther SMITH, her step-brother, in 1836. (Eleanor SMITH, Benjamin's mother, m. David DORTCH Jr. after the death of Josephus SMITH II.) They had four children: David, Mary Elizabeth, William Carter and Ida Lilley. Only Mary Elizabeth, who m. Joseph BARNETT, left descendants. Benjamin Luther died in 1844, and Mary Ann m. Francis Edmond BADGER and had four additional children: Nonie, Edmond, Emma and Mollie. Emma m. Norman BLACK and had children.