In a message dated 10/24/03 2:13:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kUB.2ACE/424.435.269.661.1 Message Board Post: I wonder if anyone has proof that Elizabeth Fitzhugh b. about 1727 (I have 1728) married Samuel Smitherman. I've had several queries about it. I'm the Keeper of the Virginia Fitzhugh Database so am very interested in verifying this. Thanks Charleen >> Charleen - I have Samuel Smitherman in my files, but I have no idea who his wife was. Here are his children below him. Judy Presnell Canant Descendants of Samuel Smitherman 1 Samuel SMITHERMAN d: 1836 in Randolph Co, NC .2 Noah SMITHERMAN b: Bet. 1795 - 1800 in (Age is a guess) d: Aft. 1836 in (Was administrator of father's estate, Randolph Co) .....+Rebecca, W Of Noah Smitherman .2 Mary SMITHERMAN b: Aft. 1800 .....+John GRAVES b: 1800 in Troy, Montgomery Co, NC (a few mi south of Randolph Co line) m: Bef. 1825 in Troy, Montgomery Co, NC (They were married when Saml died) d: April 24, 1843 in Near Harmony, Van Buren Twp, Clay Co, IN Father: Samuel Graves, Sr Mother: Zylphia Steed ..... 3 Jesse Smitherman GRAVES b: August 25, 1825 in Clay Co, IN (never married) d: in Travelled through SW, died and b in SW USA ..... 3 Samuel GRAVES b: August 25, 1825 ..... 3 Mary Jane GRAVES b: February 25, 1827 in Enroute from NC to IN (She m 1. John Williams, then his bro,2. Edw Williams d: January 30, 1902 ..... 3 Nancy Ann GRAVES b: May 07, 1829 in Clay Co, IN d: March 11, 1892 ..... 3 James W GRAVES b: January 22, 1831 ..... 3 Rebecca Smitherman GRAVES b: January 11, 1833 .........+John HENDRIX, Jr ..... 3 Margaret F GRAVES b: August 27, 1834 ..... 3 Noah Smitherman GRAVES b: March 06, 1836 ..... 3 John Wesley GRAVES b: January 28, 1840 .2 Nancy Ann SMITHERMAN b: 1805 in Troy, Montgomery Co, NC d: December 17, 1847 in Near Harmony, Van Buren Twp, Clay Co, IN .....+Harbard SPENCER m: Unknown .2 Jesse SMITHERMAN b: Bef. 1836 in (named an infant who sued his guardians, Noah S. and Harbard Spencer) ========== Here is what I found in the Randolph Co Journal on this family. (I can tell you that the Genealogical Journals of Randolph Co are just the best journals that I have ever seen. They are full of documents. If anyone on this line wants to get those, just contact the Randolph county Genealogical Society in Asheboro, NC. You can find them on line.) Genealogical Journal of Randolph Co NC Historical Society, Vol, XII, #1, Randolph Co Estates, pp 48-50, Estate of Samuel SMITHERMAN Petition to sell land - Tracts of Land: One near Caraway Mtn on which Wm ROBINS lives Tract adjoining James JOHNSON and Lewis SPINKS Tract adjoining Abraham BROWER Six tracts adjoining each other on waters of Fork Creek Tract on Bear Creek adjoining Johnson KING and others Tract called the BROWN place on Little River Other tracts on Little River; Samuel GRAVES place, Gilliam GRAVES place, Ben BOLING place, Christian LUTHER place, a tract adjoining John BOLING & the last mentioned place, Jacob LUTHER, Sr place, Jacob LUTHER, Jr. place, John LUTHER place, Price HAYS place, Elijah PRESNELL place.