There might be a connection here with the Smothers families that supposedly migrated DE > NC in the mid-1700's and then NC > TN > IL/AR/MO in the 1800's?? Bill Smothers Delaware ========================== >From Political Graveyard web site: http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith-snowf.html SMITHERS, Nathaniel Barratt (1818-1896) Born in Dover, Del., October 8, 1818. Secretary of state of Delaware, 1863; U.S. Representative from Delaware at-large, 1863-65; member of Republican National Committee from Delaware, 1866-68; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, 1868. Died in Dover, Del., January 16, 1896. Interment at Old Methodist or Whatcoat Cemetery, Dover, Del. (See also his congressional biography.) From: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000642 SMITHERS, Nathaniel Barratt, a Representative from Delaware; born in Dover, Del., October 8, 1818; was graduated from Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, in 1836; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Dover, Del., in 1840; secretary of State of Delaware January 20 to November 23, 1863; elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Temple and served from December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1865; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Dover; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864; died in Dover, Kent County, Del., January 16, 1896; interment in the Old Methodist Cemetery. ==========================