This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IhB.2ACI/303.2 Message Board Post: In my Smith family of Bedford/Lincoln Co. TN a John Smith died just prior to 1850 leaving 4 children. This was the information listed in a paper regarding the heirs of Jonathan Merrill, who died before 1850. They lived alomost on the line between Bedford and Lincoln. The Smith family left Lincoln Co. TN before 1850 but the older John and Charlotte were supposedly still in the area.The Smith children listed were: Charlotte, deceased by 1850 leaving children, John, deceased leaving 4 children, then Amos, Jemima, Benjamin, Phebe, Cornelius, William, Jonathan and Nancy, (not in order)