This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Stricklin, Issac, Murry, Autry Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VJIBAEB/28273.1 Message Board Post: My g grandfather James E Madison Smith b. 2/24/1839 in Cuba, MS Alcorn county, which lies next to Tippah county, Census shows James father born in SC and Mother born in TN. James had a brother Gilbert born 8/27/1827 in TN Gilbert married Sara Autry. James also had a nephew Lumuel Murry born ca 1859 in MS. during Civil war James left the MS / TN area and went to Jacksonville, Tn near Reel foot Lake. He had a wife and children who died there except 1 daughter Sarah b. ca. 1863 who later married Godfred Issac. Sarah then moved on with James to Salem, MO where James met and married Ellen Stricklin, They started to OK, but stopped near Licking MO and homesteaded a farm near Boiling Springs on the Piney River. James brother Gilbert also had a farm a few miles away. Is any of this information familiar? So far I have been unable to find who James and Gilberts parents are.