This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IhB.2ACI/303.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks everyone. This family of Smith's have been SO hard to research and after I noticed the connection of Bedford Co families in Arkansas, I just had to ask. My grandfather was born in 1882 and his mother, Mary Rains Smith, died c 1885, then his father, Joseph Y Smith died c 1890. He was so young that he had very little memories of them. When he moved to Tn in the 1920's I am not sure he even knew that he had relatives still living in Bedford County on his father's side and McNairy Co on his mother's side. So Sad! Sure hope someone comes along with some info on this Smith family. It would be so greatly appreciated!