a.. b283243@aol.com rootsweb.com world connect tree a.. Name: Thomas MADISON SMOTHERS a.. Birth: ABT 1840 in OF NC Marriage 1 EMMA COIL GARRETT b: 3 OCT 1843 in NC a.. Married: ABT 1867 in OF NC Children 1.. Hugh PATRICK SMOTHERS b: ABT 1871 in OF NC 2.. John RAINE SMOTHERS b: ABT 1873 3.. Thomas BOLLING SMOTHERS b: 1 MAY 1875 NEW BETHEL,Rockingham,NC 4.. SUE LILLIAN SMOTHERS b: ABT 1877 in OF NC 5.. OLLIE LORENE SMOTHERS b: ABT 1879 in OF NC 6.. INFANT SMOTHERS b: ABT 1881 in OF NC 7.. GUS GARRETT SMOTHERS b: ABT 1883 in OF NC 8.. RUBEN REID SMOTHERS b: ABT 1885 in OF NC 9.. ADDIE WALTON SMOTHERS b: ABT 1887 in OF NC North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 Bride: Emily Garrett Groom: Thomas M Smothers Bond Date: 21 Oct 1868 County: Rockingham Record #: 01 242 Witness: W M Ellington Bond #: 000121823 Civil War Pension Index Thomas M. Smothers Images Online #: 3432 State Filed: North Carolina Widow: Emma C. Smothers Relative: Thomas Bolling Smothers Birth: 1 May 1875-- Rockingham, New Bethel, NC Spouse: Maude Francis Reid Parents: Thomas Madison Smothers, Emma Coil Garrett American Civil War Soldiers Thomas Madison Smothers Residence: Rockingham County, North Carolina Enlist Date: 21 August 1861 State: North Carolina 1. Thomas BOLLING SMOTHERS I was born 1 MAY 1875 NEW BETHEL,Rockingham,NC. He was the son of 2. Thomas MADISON SMOTHERS and 3. EMMA COIL GARRETT. He married Maud FRANCIS REID 5 FEB 1899 in MAYODAN,NC. Children of Thomas BOLLING SMOTHERS I and Maud FRANCIS REID are: **i. Thomas BOLLING SMOTHERS II was born 22 JUL 1908 in NC. He married RUTH RICKETT/Remick ? JAN 1935. She was born ABT 1910 in OF LOS ANGELES,CA. their children: 1-Thomas Bolyn Smothers III b Feb 2 1937 NY City, Governor's Island 'Tom-YO YO Man Smothers' [Tom is md with 11 children] 2-Richard 'Dick' Rickett/Remick ? Smothers b Nov 20 1939 NY City, Governor's Island. 'Dick' of Smothers Brothers [Dick md 2x, has 1 fr lst marr, 2 fr 2nd marr] 3-Sherry Smothers ii. BRONA REID SMOTHERS was born 22 FEB 1910 in OF NC. She married ROBERT E MOSTIN 1 JAN 1935 in WINSTON SALEM,NC. He was born ABT 1905 in OF NC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------Ahnentafel, Generation No. 2 2. Thomas MADISON SMOTHERS was born ABT 1840 in OF NC. 3. EMMA COIL GARRETT was born 3 OCT 1843 in NC. She was the daughter of 6. JARRETT BOULDIN GARRETT and 7. CLARISSA WALTON HILL. Children of EMMA COIL GARRETT and Thomas MADISON SMOTHERS are: i. Hugh PATRICK SMOTHERS was born ABT 1871 in OF NC. ii. John RAINE SMOTHERS was born ABT 1873. iii. Thomas BOLLING SMOTHERS II was born 1 MAY 1875 in NEW BETHEL,Rockingham,NC. He married Maud FRANCIS REID 5 FEB 1899 in MAYODAN,NC. iv. SUE LILLIAN SMOTHERS was born ABT 1877 in OF NC. v. OLLIE LORENE SMOTHERS was born ABT 1879 in OF NC. vi. INFANT SMOTHERS was born ABT 1881 in OF NC, and died ABT 1881. vii. GUS GARRETT SMOTHERS was born ABT 1883 in OF NC. viii. RUBEN REID SMOTHERS was born ABT 1885 in OF NC. ix. ADDIE WALTON SMOTHERS was born ABT 1887 in OF NC. She married J W JARVIS ABT 1912. He was born ABT 1882 in OF NC. smobro1@aol.com Smothers Bros website Tom, now 65, is married with two kids (plus a grown son from an earlier marriage). When not working, he's an avid golfer. Dick, 62, is also married; he and his wife have a combined 11 kids. Dick's pastimes include cycling, yoga, and cooking. The brothers also run a vineyard and winery, REMICK Ridge, in California's Sonoma Valley. D.M. Remarkably, the Yo-Yo Man [Tom] achieves all this without ever uttering a word. Dick (the Voice of Yo) authoritatively speaks for him as he explains, "When you're fully Yo from head to toe, you're online with the world." Smothers Brothers Mother Loved Tom More-Tom and Dick Smothers Mother's diary was uncovered and it was revealed that she loved Tom more. http://thefunnyline.com/November%202002.pdf Glenn Greenwood-AOSHS/AOSA Communications Director aoshscom@wichita.edu THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS - TOM AND DICK SMOTHERS COMEDIANS http://aoshs.wichita.edu/famousS-U.html Tom & Dick Smothers are Army Brats. They were both born at Fort Jay on Governor's Island in New York. Their father Major Smothers was captured in the Philippines during WW2 and participated in the Bataan March. Major Smothers died on board a Japanese prisoner-of-war ship on the way to Japan. http://www.nnp.org/newvtour/regions/Hudson/nut_island.html If you were to enter New York Harbor by ship, as the first explorers and settlers did, before reaching Manhattan you would come to a smaller island jutting out into the harbor - an ideal base for establishing a small settlement and fort for defending the harbor and the Hudson River from would-be invaders. The Dutch explorers of the early 17th century thought as much, and they chose this, which they named Noten Eylant, or Nut Island, after the walnut and chestnut trees that grew there, as their initial base. We know it today as Governor's Island.In 1624, the ship Nieu Nederlandt (New Netherland) put in at the island, under the command of Cornelis Jacobsz May. May's passengers comprised a group of 30 families from an area of the Low Countries or Spanish Netherlands called Wallonia. The Netherlands was in the midst of a long war with Spain, and at the time Wallonia was under Spanish rule. Spain hoped to reconvert the Walloons to Catholicism; thus, along with the Pilgrims who had arrived at Cape Cod just four years earlier, these were among first of what would be droves of refugees coming to America seeking religious freedom. Soon after arriving, most of these settlers were transported further up the Hudson River, to present-day Albany. A party of eight men was left on Nut Island, as the West India Company, their employer, thought to make this the center of its fur-trading operations. One year later, the company sent 45 more colonists and several hundred cows, horses, sheep and pigs. Also in this party was Willem Verhulst, the new director-general of the province, along with an engineer who would lay out a fort and the main streets of a town. It was soon decided that Nut Island was too small to serve as a permanent capital, so Verhulst ordered the settlers to move approximately 500 yards across the harbor to Manhattan, thus beginning the decline of Nut Island and the establishment of the town of New Amsterdam, later New York City. It wasn't until 1784 that Nut Island was renamed Governor's Island.For most of its history Governor's Island has been at the disposal of the U.S. military, which has not wanted to part with it but also never found a good use for it. It's thus been a kind of junk drawer of military history, a place where things have been stored, and where odd bits of history have happened:The comedy team of Tom and Dick Smothers were born on the island in 1937, when their father was stationed here. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/change-style/tg/detail/-/B0000063EI Tommy and Dicky's father died in the Bataan Death March in WWII. They also have a sister named Sherry so their mom really did have a Tom, Dick, and Sherry. http://www.nbaa.org/conventions/2002/attendees/banquet.htm Tom and Dick Smothers were born in New York City and attended San Jose State University in California. Their enduring appeal as a comedic team has brought them fame and honor, including a Museum of Broadcasting retrospective and seminar on their work and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is studied in universities across the country as an important factor in the revolutionary changes undergone in the United States during the 1960s. http://users2.ev1.net/~smyth/linernotes/personel/DrakeTom.htm. In the spring of 1958 Bobby & Kingston Trio went to a barbecue that afternoon on a houseboat in Sausalito. The houseboat belonged to a couple of struggling young musicians named Tom and Dick Smothers. http://homepages.ntws.net/sites/ghogue/comedy.html. Comedians Tom and Dick Smothers had several television programs: The Smothers Brothers Show in September of 1965, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in February of 1967, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in July of 1970, The Smothers Brothers Prime Time Space Ride in 1971, and The Smothers Brothers Show in January of 1975. ~~~~~~~~~~ _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus