This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Ayers, Lusk, Wheelock, Watson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VJIBAEB/28366.1 Message Board Post: I can give you what little information I have, as I too have been searching. The Smith link is one of the last one's I have yet to connect. My grandmother, Gladys Ruth Watson married Tom Herbert Smith in 1946. Grandpa Smith was the son of Josephine Ayers, Smith, Wheelock, Lusk (it might go Wheelock, Smith too, not sure but Ayers was her maiden name and Lusk was her name at death) and Herbert Smith. We know NOTHING about Herbert Smith. Grandpa was born in Chattanooga Tennesee and ended up in WNY. He died in June of 1986 after fathering 6 (that we know of) kids, the youngest being my mom. Supposidely, he had a sister at one time. We don't know how old (younger or older then him we don't know), we don't know who her father was. All we know is the story that she died in a house fire. But again, we don't know where. (Though some seem to think it was Mayville, New York.) Grandpa died when I was six. And from what I'm told he wouldn't talk about it anyway, nor did he talk about his mother much, who died in 1985. So if any of these people or events seem familiar to you, please let me know! I have been searching, without any sort of discoveries I'm afraid.