Please "reply to all" so that your response gets back to the list. Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:15 PM Subject: Re Jordan/ Overturf/ Smith > In going over the info under James Jordan, I have found some that has me > wondering. > > In the # 9 Mary Jordan cir 1815 has married a John Overturf. No dates > Their daughter # 42 Elizabeth no dates is married a George W Smith Cir 1808. > > If Mary was 16 when she had Elizabeth that would put her born about 1821. > George's first child was born 1834. That would make Elizabeth 13 yrs old. Even > in that era I don't think that Elizabeth's parents would have let her marry & > especially to a man older than themselves. > > Is anyone working on this particular family? And can you see why these > questions have come to my attention. I understand that the gentleman, who did most > of this work' is no longer with us, so may be almost impossible to untangle! > > Others have Mary's sister Elizabeth married to George, but in census & James > Jordon Line Elizabeth is married to a Thomas Holland a minister. In 1860 > census she is Betsy. > Also George W Smith has no wife listed in 1860 census. > > Thank You for your help in getting to the facts of my John Scott Smith, who > was born in Oct 1847 & is most like the son of George W & Elizabeth__???___ > Smith. > > Linda Bauman >