This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kNB.2ACI/1620 Message Board Post: Hey! I am looking for any information I can find about James E. Smith. What I have so far is that he had 13 children. Some of the children were Lili, Ida Priscilla, Charles T., and Minnie. Ida was also a school teacher there. She was born on January 24, 1883 in Texas County, Missouri. She died in Kansas City Missouri. I really want more information on her parents and grandparents. Her father was James E. Smith, I lost her mother's name in a house fire and have not been able to reconstruct it. James was born in one of the southern states of a white man and a choctaw woman. I really need their names. He left that area and went to Missouri by way of Reel Foot Tennessee. His first wife is buried there and they have a daughter, although I don't have her name. He received notice of receiving Indian Lands in Oklahoma. At that time he lived in Houston Missouri. He packed his belongings and began to try to make the move. He got as far as the Licking and Success area a! nd the wagon broke down. He just stayed there. He bought an acreage called Jack Tar Hollow and there he stayed. What I have been told is that he donated part of that area for the Caveness Cemetery. I am not sure if that is fact or a rumor. He is buried there and so are many of his family. I am dying for more information on him so I can go on tracing my family tree. It has hit a dead end there. If any one can help, it would be greatly appreciated. The son named above was called C. T. He still has family there. Hope to hear soon, Thanks.