This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith/Baker/Becker/ Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wJB.2ACE/924.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Dan, This family also ties into the Nichols family of Callaway County and possibly the Collins family too. Evidently some of the Bakers spelled and used the name as Becker in Callaway County. - quoting what I was told ( Becker/Nichols marriage) William Wiley Smith and Rebecca Maria Baker were the parents of twelve children. Rebecca was full blood Cherokee according to the family, and may have been " card carrying" which would be proof of the Cherokee ancestry. A note regarding daughter Nancy Smith Baker says: N. got Jacob's pension from the CW and also got an Indian pension from government about $40.00 a mos for many years. Certificate of marriage: State of Missouri County of Osage: This is to Certify that I united in the Holy Bounds of Matrimony Mr.Charley Baker of Osage Coounty, MO and Miss Nancy Cordelia Smith of Osage County, Mo on Sunday the 18th day of July AD 1869 Given under my hand this 18th day of July 1869 Signed Charles Orsterawold Justice of the Peace. I haven't had time to sort this material , but both William Wiley Smith and Rebecca Baker died in Mexico according to this material. I do not think they had the information you have posted, at least not the lady that gave this stuff and she will be happy to have it. I think she truly would like to prove beyond a doubt the Cherokee part by finding the records of any payments. I wonder how they wound up in Mexico, lots of readng here to do Thanks Betty