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/VJIBAEB/28157.2 Message Board Post: Where are your Smith's from? I am looking for a James Smith, wife unknown, from Texas. He was my great grandfather. Last I have was in Beaumont. He had two daughters, Nettie Smith Badgett and Mrs. Carroll and my grandfather, John Anderson Smith. My grandfather died when my mother was 6 and my grandmother never told her children anything about their father.