There are definitely a few SMITHERMANs now living in Forsyth Co/Winston-Salem NC. One thing I have noted in my (amateur) research is that there seems to be an invisible norht/south boundary between Guilford/Randolph counties and Stokes/Forsyth/Davidson/Rowan counties in the early era. Perhaps it was the trails and wagon roads but it seems that in my Forsyth Co. "rooting" that there is not much interconnection east-west across those counties above. I do have a stray DEAN who appears to have crossed over from Guilford, and perhaps my brickwall John Peter HOOVER (1812-1874) did so. There were a lot of HOOVERs over in Randoph Co. but a paucity here. I suspect his ancestery was Swiss rather than German, although I am sure he found the German influence on this area somewhat inviting.... Richard D. Barnes Winston-Salem, NC 27104 richard.barnes3@att.net NC: Appel, Brindle, Clampitt, Dean, Fouts, Frey, Glasscoe, Harder, Hoover, Lashmit, Leinbach, Longworth, Mullikin, Rominger, Rothrock, Snider, Sink, Snider, Spach, Starr, Tesh, Transou, Walk, Williard VA: Longworth, McGannon, Nash, Richards IN: Barnes, Fouts, Hendricks, Law ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Harris" <ncgen@mindspring.com> To: <MORAVIANCHURCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [MORAVIANCH] SMITHERMAN of Salem, NC > >Posted on: MoravianChurch Special Queries > >Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/Special/MoravianChurch/23 > > > >Surname: SMITHERMAN > >------------------------- > > > >I am posting a query answer, see query below. > > > >I did not find SMITHERMAN emigrating on Moravian ships, in Moravian > >settlement congregation **burials** in Bethlehem or Nazareth, nor on the > >list of NC Moravians on Faye Jarvis Moran & Elizabeth Harris' website. > > > >> Do you have any information about Moses P. Smitherman who came to > >> Pennsylvania from Germany, then came to North Carolina (Salem area) in > >about > >> 1780. > > > There are no Smithermans listed in the indexes to the Records of the > Moravians in North Carolina. Volume 4 contains a list of the adult > residents in the 1775-1783 period, and he isn't mentioned there. > > There is a William Smitherman in Randolph Co. NC in the 1790 census; none > in Stokes, Surry or Rowan, which would be more the area around the Moravian > settlement; none in Stokes County through 1830, which would include the > Salem area. I haven't checked the other census records yet. > > Jo White Linn's compilation of Rowan County tax records lists a number of > SMITHER names, but no Smithermans. Brent Holcomb's compilation of Rowan > County marriage bonds doesn't list any either, nor do I find any in the > Rowan County deed records (Jo White Linn, James Kluttz, compilers). > > I do however have two later Smitherman names in my personal database: > > Alexander Smitherman, age 22 in 1850, living with John H. Randleman and > family, Forsyth Co. census page 283 > > Elizabeth Smitherman married Hampton Scott, who was born about 1834. This > is from HAUSER family records; his parents were Leonard Scott and Sallie > Hauser, of Surry Co. NC. > > Finally, there is a Noah Smitherman age 38 in Randolph County in 1850, > living alone. > > My guess is that the Moses Smitherman mentioned in the query may have > settled in Randolph county rather than the area around Salem, which suggest > that he might not have been a Moravian. Randolph County isn't all that far > away from Salem, but it was outside the borders of the Moravian settlement. > > > > > Elizabeth Harris > > NCGenWeb project: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/ > Winston-Salem NC area genealogy: http://users.erols.com/fmoran/ > >