Bill-got your message, I will get back to you okay. Bernie is of "our line" too...shes a great researcher and one heck of a lady!! Just too cool!!...just a tidbit for you...our Bill m. into the Moses Winters of Robertson county, Tn...two kids now we know born in Tn of that marriage...makes things more not of a mystery as we found out ole bill had joined up for the War of 1812 in the Tennessee militia and we could not figure that out because he was suppose to be in KY...caution...don't believe everything some one has written before you...it may not be true...har har!...I now making making up a Tennessee Smothers folder list...got to be connection, too many of us are stumped at the gggg generation....we still are...Nena >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Elisha McEwing Cervin SMOTHERS b 1854 AR >Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:08:38 EDT > >In a message dated 5/15/01 6:53:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > > > > Elisha McEwing Cervin SMOTHERS, b abt 1854 AR, married Nancy Jane NEAL >abt > > 1900 > > in (probably) Marion Co., AR. > > > > Who were their children? In my records they have a son Austin L. b >sometime > > 1900-1920 and a daughter Melinda b 1908 AR married Willis MERRIMAN. Was > > there > > also a daughter Mary SMOTHERS b 1903 AR married Bryant MERRIMAN? > > > > Bill..........perhaps you should contact >[email protected] > > I think she has some info on him and she isn't on the list at this time. > > > > > > > > > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

In a message dated 5/15/01 6:53:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Elisha McEwing Cervin SMOTHERS, b abt 1854 AR, married Nancy Jane NEAL abt > 1900 > in (probably) Marion Co., AR. > > Who were their children? In my records they have a son Austin L. b sometime > 1900-1920 and a daughter Melinda b 1908 AR married Willis MERRIMAN. Was > there > also a daughter Mary SMOTHERS b 1903 AR married Bryant MERRIMAN? > > Bill..........perhaps you should contact [email protected] > I think she has some info on him and she isn't on the list at this time. > >

Perhaps someone on the list can help. Elisha McEwing Cervin SMOTHERS, b abt 1854 AR, married Nancy Jane NEAL abt 1900 in (probably) Marion Co., AR. Who were their children? In my records they have a son Austin L. b sometime 1900-1920 and a daughter Melinda b 1908 AR married Willis MERRIMAN. Was there also a daughter Mary SMOTHERS b 1903 AR married Bryant MERRIMAN? Bill Smothers

How many of you on the list have Tennessee Smothers...we've had a break thru on our line...finally estab two kids of Bill Smeathers born in Tn..thinking there could be a link...Nena and cuz Deb _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666 S Smither, Geo., 1653, by Richard Starnell, -- Co. Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623-1666 S Smither, Geo., 1652, by Robert Elam, Henrico Co.

Subject: Claude Elmer Smothers Posted by: Judy Smith Message: Claude Elmer Smothers (A.K.A. Elmer Claude Smothers) Born in Clayton County, Iowa Circa November 1897, to James A. Smothers and Elizabeth Josephine Swisher (Daughter of Benjamin Lafayette Swisher, and Sarah Jane Day). Besides his half brother William John Smothers, and half sister Mary E. Smothers, Claude had five other siblings. James Smothers, Jr., Mary A. Smothers, George A. Smothers, Sarah Smothers, and Oliver Bertsel Smothers. According to Grant Smothers (son of William John Smothers), Claude was left handed. He also told me that Claude was an old time fiddle player, and a "Darn good one at that." I had also been told that he always had a "fancy" horse drawn buggy. At the age of twenty-three he married Bertha Westpfahl (daughter of John Westpfahl and Dora Held), on the 8 day of September 1904. Bertha was then 18 years of age. They were married in Windsor Township, Fayette County, Iowa. In the 1905 census for Fayette County Claude and Bertha were living in Hawkeye, Iowa. On the 1st day of June 1906, a son, Sidney Earl Smothers was born. Bertha died when Sidney was just an infant/toddler (date has not yet been discovered), and Claude took his young son to live with his half brother William and his family. I was told by Grant Smothers that Claude came one rainy night in the Fall (in a horse drawn buggy), and took "Earl" (as Grant called him), never to be seen again (at least by Grant). On the 12th day of March 1908, in Fayette County, Waucoma, Iowa, Elmer Claude Smothers married my grandmother, Myrtle Ella Monroe (daughter of Norman Monroe and Minnie Appleby Parker). To this union a son (my father) Cecil Bert Smothers was born, 7th day of January 1909. Elmer left Myrtle and their son when Cecil was just an infant (for reasons unknown), never to be heard from once again. Several years later Myrtle divorced Elmer (24th day of April 1913), and in the divorce decree she was granted back her maiden name of Monroe. Young Cecil was also granted the last name of Monroe. She then married a man named Paul Haus, and somewhere down the road Cecil assumed the last name of Haus (thus becoming Cecil Bert Haus). Meanwhile, according to personal letters and post cards, it seems young Sidney had been taken to live with Claude's brother James and his wife Maggie. Claude corresponded with them asking Maggie to find a someone to adopt "the boy." On the 6th day of January 1912, he was adopted by A. Prudhome and his wife Margaret, in Marinette County, State of Wisconsin. The letter Claude wrote to Maggie was postmarked February 8, 1911 from St. Paul Park, Minnesota. Mailed to Mrs. Maggie Smothers, Mt Hope, Wisconsin. In the letter Claude stated that he was going to Chicago to become a policeman. During my interview with Grant Smothers (8-5-1986) he told me that he had heard "Elmer" had quit drinking and went to Minneapolis, Minnesota to become a policeman. Also during this interview he stated that he thought Elmer died in 1943. However he did not know for certain. Where did he go? Is there another family after his marriage/divorce from Myrtle? When, where, and how did he die? Hopefully someday we will find the key to unlock this mystery. Submitted by Judy Smith (Nee Haus) (Information obtained from court documents, letters/postcards sent to family members, and interview with Grant Smothers.

Subject: Info on Smothers Posted by: James D. Smothers Message: 1880 Samuel Smothers was in Decatur County Tn he was 45yrsold. His wife Ollie 56, son James 12, george 10, Samuel 7, William H. 2. William Henry if this is the same, was my Grandfather, does any know how to decifer this and go on back and find my GGGFather.and if in fact am i any kin to this bunch. Any help will be appreciated.

Smyth County, Virginia Marriages, 1853-1861 9/-1853 Smyth ,county Jacob Smothers Malinda Carmony 2/1853 Henry Smothers-36 Susanna Wilson-22

DATE: 11 Jun 97 SURNAMES: SMOTHERS CONTACT PERSON: James Stephenson Seeking any information on any of the following persons: Jacob SMOTHERS (b. abt 1788 NC d. 14 Feb 1864) Franklin County. He and Nancy --? (b. abt 1787 NC)and were m abt 1808 in TN. They were living in Carroll Co. TN in 1850 and came to Franklin County, IL shortly thereafter. Their children: William B (b. 23 Mar 1809 TN d. 23 Mar 1882) m. 1.Ellender Jane DILLON (b. 1826 in TN d. 22 Oct 1873) Children: NAncy Catherine, Jacob R, Elizabeth Jane, William J, Susan Elender, David B, Rebecca C, Jesse Lowry, John Green. 2. m. Mary Elizabeth BENNETT/TADLOCK (b. ca 1837) Oct 1875 Their children: Caldona, Thomas Reed. Zadock (b. 1819 TN) m. S.E. CROCKETT 25 Apr 1872 in Franklin County Any information will be greatly appreciated

I am unfamiliar with the first mentioned Smothers clan from Ohio. The Smothers (& others) who in 1812 left Salem Baptist Church, based in now Allen Co., KY, at Trammel Creek, which is on/near the Tennessee line, I am familiar with. They formed the Testament Baptist Church in what was then Sumner Co., TN, and I think is now Macon Co., TN. Surving Sumner Co., TN, court records, voter lists, tax lists, church records, etc., indicate William Smothers arrived in Sumner Co. about 1796. His wife seems to have been named Nancy, and she apparently was a known midwife in the region circa 1810. William seems to have been a part of the clan of Thomas Smothers (m Susannah Gilliam) of Orange Co., NC, whose descendants moved to Sumner/Smith Co., TN, in the 1796 to 1820 time frame. They later dipersed to other parts of Tennessee, southern Illinois, and Arkansas, circa 1820-1860. William & Nancy Smothers are likely candidates for the parents of Elish M. Smothers, b 1800 TN. Bill Smothers Delaware Nena Smothers wrote: > Any familiar names here to anyone out there? > > >book called Ohio Source Records in which there is a section called > >"Marriage Records, Franklin County, Ohio," wherein I find this: [page 230] > >"Adams, John---Smothers, Hannah---April 29, 1821. Russell Bigelow, M. G. > >[vol.] 2-[page] 89. > >"John Smothers says his sister, Hannah Smothers, is of lawful age to marry > >John Adams and that the parties is not nearer related than first cousins." > >[A note symbol at the end of the statement refers one back to the footnotes > >on the first page of the article where the appropriate footnote reads > >"Original Records. These original records are fragments of paper stored in > >the Probate Court Rooms."] > >In "History of Salem Baptist Church (Allen County, Kentucky)" in Pioneer > >Baptist Church Records of South-Central Kentucky and the Upper Cumberland > >of Tennessee, 1799-1899, by C. P. Cawthorn and N. L Warnell (1985), is the > >following: On Feb. 8, 1812, the following bretheren and sisters were > >dismissed from the Salem Baptist Church on Trammel Creek in Allen County, > >and constituted into a church called Testament Baptist Church. > > "Henry Woodcock, chosen deacon and ordained; John Meador, clerk; > >William Smothers; George Terry; Samuel Warner; John Meador; Lewis Meador; > >Sally Meador; Mary Ann Terry; Hannah Tracy; Nancy Smothers; Sally Hudson." > >(Note 185: Minutes of the Testament Baptist Church. Typed excerpts.) > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

Any familiar names here to anyone out there? >book called Ohio Source Records in which there is a section called >"Marriage Records, Franklin County, Ohio," wherein I find this: [page 230] >"Adams, John---Smothers, Hannah---April 29, 1821. Russell Bigelow, M. G. >[vol.] 2-[page] 89. >"John Smothers says his sister, Hannah Smothers, is of lawful age to marry >John Adams and that the parties is not nearer related than first cousins." >[A note symbol at the end of the statement refers one back to the footnotes >on the first page of the article where the appropriate footnote reads >"Original Records. These original records are fragments of paper stored in >the Probate Court Rooms."] >In "History of Salem Baptist Church (Allen County, Kentucky)" in Pioneer >Baptist Church Records of South-Central Kentucky and the Upper Cumberland >of Tennessee, 1799-1899, by C. P. Cawthorn and N. L Warnell (1985), is the >following: On Feb. 8, 1812, the following bretheren and sisters were >dismissed from the Salem Baptist Church on Trammel Creek in Allen County, >and constituted into a church called Testament Baptist Church. > "Henry Woodcock, chosen deacon and ordained; John Meador, clerk; >William Smothers; George Terry; Samuel Warner; John Meador; Lewis Meador; >Sally Meador; Mary Ann Terry; Hannah Tracy; Nancy Smothers; Sally Hudson." >(Note 185: Minutes of the Testament Baptist Church. Typed excerpts.) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

I have your Jacob Smothers in my files, I believe. He was born abt 1789 in NC and had at least one wife named Nancy_____. Census record suggest Jacob was living in Sumner Co., TN, in 1820, and then was in Carroll Co., TN, up until at least 1850. In old age, 1860, he was living in Franklin Co., IL. I was not aware of the land grant you mentioned, but it seems to fit well with the census records for Jacob. Jacob possibly had brothers named Elisha M. Smothers and John Smothers, who were living near him in Carroll Co., TN. I have no proof that Jacob, Elisha, and John were siblings, but that seems to be the correct explanation. Jacobs father is much more of a guess -- it is likely he is related to the Thomas Smothers (m Susannah Gilliam) clan from Orange Co., NC, whose descendants settled in the area of Sumner/Smith Co., TN, are around 1796-1820. Bill Smothers Delaware Jan & Joe Smothers wrote: > I am looking for any information about JACOB SMOTHERS, who was given a land grant, about 1823/26 in what is now Carroll Co. TN. OR if any one on the list has a Jacob Smothers, in that time line. Please give me some feed back. Thanks Jan & Joe Smothers > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2

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I am looking for any information about JACOB SMOTHERS, who was given a land grant, about 1823/26 in what is now Carroll Co. TN. OR if any one on the list has a Jacob Smothers, in that time line. Please give me some feed back. Thanks Jan & Joe Smothers

From: The Smothers Surname Message Board at Ancestry.Com http://www.familyhistory.com Message #174 Monday, May 07, 2001 Subject: Claude Elmer Smothers Posted by: Judy Smith Message: Claude Elmer Smothers (A.K.A. Elmer Claude Smothers) Born in Clayton County, Iowa Circa November 1897, to James A. Smothers and Elizabeth Josephine Swisher (Daughter of Benjamin Lafayette Swisher, and Sarah Jane Day). Besides his half brother William John Smothers, and half sister Mary E. Smothers, Claude had five other siblings. James Smothers, Jr., Mary A. Smothers, George A. Smothers, Sarah Smothers, and Oliver Bertsel Smothers. According to Grant Smothers (son of William John Smothers), Claude was left handed. He also told me that Claude was an old time fiddle player, and a "Darn good one at that." I had also been told that he always had a "fancy" horse drawn buggy. At the age of twenty-three he married Bertha Westpfahl (daughter of John Westpfahl and Dora Held), on the 8 day of September 1904. Bertha was then 18 years of age. They were married in Windsor Township, Fayette County, Iowa. In the 1905 census for Fayette County Claude and Bertha were living in Hawkeye, Iowa. On the 1st day of June 1906, a son, Sidney Earl Smothers was born. Bertha died when Sidney was just an infant/toddler (date has not yet been discovered), and Claude took his young son to live with his half brother William and his family. I was told by Grant Smothers that Claude came one rainy night in the Fall (in a horse drawn buggy), and took "Earl" (as Grant called him), never to be seen again (at least by Grant). On the 12th day of March 1908, in Fayette County, Waucoma, Iowa, Elmer Claude Smothers married my grandmother, Myrtle Ella Monroe (daughter of Norman Monroe and Minnie Appleby Parker). To this union a son (my father) Cecil Bert Smothers was born, 7th day of January 1909. Elmer left Myrtle and their son when Cecil was just an infant (for reasons unknown), never to be heard from once again. Several years later Myrtle divorced Elmer (24th day of April 1913), and in the divorce decree she was granted back her maiden name of Monroe. Young Cecil was also granted the last name of Monroe. She then married a man named Paul Haus, and somewhere down the road Cecil assumed the last name of Haus (thus becoming Cecil Bert Haus). Meanwhile, according to personal letters and post cards, it seems young Sidney had been taken to live with Claude's brother James and his wife Maggie. Claude corresponded with them asking Maggie to find a someone to adopt "the boy." On the 6th day of January 1912, he was adopted by A. Prudhome and his wife Margaret, in Marinette County, State of Wisconsin. The letter Claude wrote to Maggie was postmarked February 8, 1911 from St. Paul Park, Minnesota. Mailed to Mrs. Maggie Smothers, Mt Hope, Wisconsin. In the letter Claude stated that he was going to Chicago to become a policeman. During my interview with Grant Smothers (8-5-1986) he told me that he had heard "Elmer" had quit drinking and went to Minneapolis, Minnesota to become a policeman. Also during this interview he stated that he thought Elmer died in 1943. However he did not know for certain. Where did he go? Is there another family after his marriage/divorce from Myrtle? When, where, and how did he die? Hopefully someday we will find the key to unlock this mystery. Submitted by Judy Smith (Nee Haus) (Information obtained from court documents, letters/postcards sent to family members, and interview with Grant Smothers.

Noah, is this Andrew that sold that land...your Andrew??? I sent you this a couple days ago and got it back as failure...so putting it on the List, maybe you will get it that way. Are you having email problems? I have a copy of that land sale and his last name is spelled SMEATHERS, not Smithers or Smothers...Bettye sent it to me over a yr ago when she sent me a copy of a land indenture to a William Smithers, it is spelled Smithers, but this Andrew is SMEATHERS as well as his wife SARAH. Do you have a copy of this?? RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Noah Smothers Family TreeAndrew from Washington County Virginia. Betty's line and also Noah's? Noah Smothers Family Tree 22352 total entries, last updated Fri Apr 27 20:57:35 2001. All questions, comments or suggestions regarding information on this page should be addressed to: Noah Smothers <[email protected]> The key to your research a.. ID: I12487 b.. Name: Andrew SMOTHERS 1 c.. Sex: M d.. Birth: ABT. 1738 in Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia e.. Death: 1824 in Bath County, Kentucky f.. Change Date: 30 JAN 1999 1 g.. Note: Washington County, Virginia---- Just a year younger than the Declaration of Independence! Ancestor counties of Washington County, Virginia: Charles River Co., name changed to York Co., 1642/1643, created New Kent Co., 1654, then King and Queen Co., 1691, then King William Co., 1702, also Chickacoan Indian District changed to Northcumberland Co., 1648, then to Lancaster Co., 1651, then to Rappahanock Co., 1656-1692, then Essex Co., 1692, King William Co., and Essex Co., became Spotsylvania Co., in 1721, then name changed to Orange Co., 1734, then name changed to Augusta Co., 1745, then name changed to Botetourt Co., 1770, then name changed to Fincastle Co, 1772-1777, then two counties were created Montgomery Co., and Washington Co., 1777. **THIS SALE IS WHAT I REFER TO THAT I HAVE A COPY OF AND IT IS SMEATHERS Information from Bettye Cooper Lowery, Aug. 25th, 2000. Notes from James Smithers, Miamisburg, Ohio. The first Smithers that we know of this time is Andrew Smothers/Smithers from the city of Abingdon, county of Washington in the state of Virginia. It is said that Andrew and Sarah were born and married in England. I was in Abindon, county of Washington in the state of Virginia in July, 1996. I copied an indenture between Andrew Smithers and his wife Sarah and Edward and Agnes Farris for a parcel of land Containing two hundred sixty acres lying and being in the county of Washington, a branch of the middle fork of the Holstein River. Andrew paid 90 pounds the current money of Virginia. The date was May 1, 1793. On November 23, 1793 Andrew and wife Sarah sold to a William Reagan the above same land for 150 pounds ocated on a branch of the middle fork of the Holstein River. I would say that he was a shewrd business man. They must have left shortly after this event because he shows up in Bath County, Ky. in the early 1800's. Andrew Smithers/Smothers wrote a will in Bath County, Ky., dated Sep. 4, 1824. In his will he states that his wife Elizabeth should have 50 acres of land, as long as she lives a single life. If she remarries, she is only to have her third of the place, and at her death it is to return to his children. He also leaves his wife one third part of all his personal estate. The balance of hs estate was to be divided amongst his children equally, that is to say Thomas Smathers, Joseph Smathers, Ann Jackson, Martha Fowler, Margaret Bristo, Sally Hopkins, Hugh Smathers, and he leaves to John Smathers, Elizabeth Fuget and Susanna Gipson, one dollar each. He appoints John McNabb as his Executor in his last will and statement. Given under my hand this 4th day of September, 1824. Names taken from will of Andrew Smothers filed 1824 Bath county, Ky. Kentucky Genelogist Vol. 11 #4. In May of 1827, his will was produced and proven to be Andrew Smither's last will and testament. Names taken from will of Andrew Smothers filied 1824 Bath County, Kentucky. Kentucky Genelogist Vol 11 #4. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Something new I just found Cencus Clayton Co. Ia, Elk twp. 1880 pg. 5 Price Smothers 47 Farmer b. TN father b. MO. Mother ?? Mary 41 wife b.TN. --MO. Elizabeth 11 Dau. b. IA ---TN. Eliza Jane 7 Dau. b. IA,---Tn. William 4 son b. Ia. This is the town ship my family line is in .. My GGrand mother is buried there in elkport cemetery and a lot of kin of mine...Cant seem to fit Price in there yet his father was from MO. Maybe you got someyhing on him Noah ???? RON

I see what you mean Bill the time frame is there Oliver Bertsel Smothers was born in Sept.1883 Dont know why the P.B.???It could be my GGrandfather James His birthday changes quite a bit!!! I got more Info on cencus 1900 Elk Twp. Clayton Co, Ia. William Smothers b. 12/1863 IL. TN. IL. wf, Ella L (Swanger) B. 6/1869 WI.PA. NY. daug Edna N. Smothers 3/1892 IA.IL.WI. Mary G. Smothers 6/1895 " " " Beth Smothers 1900 " " " son- Ralph Smothers b. 6/1897 " " " Living with them 1/2 Brother Oliver B. Smothers b. 9/1882 IA.IL.IA. 1900 cencus Eden twp. Elmer Smothers ?/11/79 IA. IL. IA. Wf. Myrtle Monroe Smothers IA.PN. IA. son--Cecil B. Smothers,, IA. MN. IA. 1905 Cencus Fayette Co. IA. Clad Smothers p.o. Address Hawkeye IA. Thats the way it was written by cencus taker!! Bertha Westpfahl No Ages or place of birth ???? Eden Twp. 1910 James Smothers 40&2yrs. IA.IL OH.. wf. Rachel 28&0 yrs.IA.PN.NY. Living with them Neph Gerald 3 yrs. Ia.IA.IL. I believe this was my father Earl Smothers Son of Claud Elmers Smothers and his first wf, Bertha Westpfahl ... IT Keeps Me Going in Circles !!!!

More Cencus records Smith Co. Tn. 1820 John Smothers 2--Males ---3 --Females Crocket Co.TN. Cencus 1880 there are 47 Smothers listed in the 1900 cencus Crocket co. Tn. it dropped to 17 I Am putting this out to Help refresh my memory I hope its o.k with the list members RON