This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Dameron, Brantley, Boone Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VJIBAEB/28390.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you Debbie, more information then I expected, you'r a great American. By the way I went back to the W. Virgina census and descovered in the 1870 census for Washington Township a George Smith approx. the right age with a son the right age named George. I believe that this might be the father. The only thing is it shows the birthplace of the George Senior as being Virgina. This could be because of a little hedgeing on the part of a first generation Immigrant. Thanks again., The Fern listed in the 1930 census was my mother and she always said she was born in Oklahoma.