I can't help but say this...Thomas Nelson was a Justice of the Peace in the time period below. At a point and time he came to Bill Smithers and asked Bill about the story of his parents and who they were when Bill lived with his sister Mollie at the Yellowbanks, Ky...so I find it so totally ironic that this man's last name is listed as SMITHERS....just too strange. There is a book written by Dorothy Gentry called Law of the Heart, which is more or less a narration between this Thomas Nelson and Bill Smothers about Bill's life. In all actuality, however, the book is almost totally verbatim taken from Thomas Clay McCreery's story he wrote for the Owensboro Monitor in 1866. McCreery being a grandson of Henry Clay...yes, indeed. In 1979 thru 1981, a magazine called "Back Home in Kentucky" reran this article of McCreery's in a 15 part series and called it, "The Life & Times of Bill Smothers", which I do possess a copy of. Its rewritten only in langauage basically from the McCreery article of 1866...for if you ever read that 1866 article its VERY ENGLISH in its writing..if you know what I mean or ever seen how British english persay writings were done back then. Gentry in writing this book, which she only sells directly from her home for $20 and the trust me, it falls apart after the lst chapter, however, its really almost verbaitum of McCreery's 1866 story and at that there are major discrepancies and if you don't know the research and history of this line, you would be bound to believe it heartly...not to say its not a good book to have just for research and redefinition in this line. But I truly wonder about this Thomas Nelson having this last name of Smithers...I think there is something weird here in erroneous city if you know what I mean... >From: "Noah E. Smothers" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [SMOTHERS] First Census of Kentucky 1790 >Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 23:34:38 -0600 > > >Search Results >Database: Full Context of Kentucky Census, Reconstructed, 1790 >Combined Matches: >Previous Page Next Page >"FIRST CENSUS" OF KENTUCKY 1790 >[p.1] HISTORY OF THE FIRST UNITED STATES CENSUS OF KENTUCKY >[p.5] Kentucky Counties in 1790 >page 88 >Smithers, Thos Nelson 11/22/1792 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com