This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RFB.2ACE/1745.1 Message Board Post: Have you looked in the DAR Lineage books found at some libraries? They list the members and their genealogy connection to their Patriot. He might be found there. Sometimes it gives some service info. I have access to the DAR online Index as a member and I could look for him there but would need more info. Do you have his wife's name? There are over 40 James Smiths listed. Some with birth dates close to his. However none died in Michigan.