This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SMITH STEWART LADSON DAVIS POOLE (WALTER(T orP) MOON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UeB.2ACI/3126 Message Board Post: This has been the longest year of my life, I've been searching everywhere for my grandparents families.I was able to make a connection back to my grandmother's family,I found her sister's children in south carolina & her brother's children in NC. But they haven't been able to share any information about gggrandparents, the Stewarts,and no one knows anything about my grandfather (John kelly Smith) or his mother(Docia,who has been described as a Cherokee Indian). It's like my people never existed.Please if there's anyone out there that can shed some light into this dark tunnel,please do ! John was b:1867 in Laurens,SC,Essie Stewart Smith was b:1894 I think in Greenville county,and Docia was b: in 1850 unknown where,as far as I know John had no siblings,he was married to Ida M.Arnold,who was the daughterof Harrison&Amanda Arnold,John&Ida had (5)children,after she passed John married and had 11 children with Essie,they once lived on the Moon plantation(place),in 1926 part of the! family moved to Cincinnati,OH where they lived until they died,John in1942 and Essie in 1963. Essie had two siblings,Carrie Stewart Ladson,Robert Stewart,her mother's name was Lucinda Stewart and Davis my grandparents were or are related to the Poole's,and a Bill Durham(supposed step-brother of my grandmother,all these people lived in South Carolina at one time or another,I know there's somebody out there looking just like I am.