Willie, I'm descended from Mary F. LaFever (Oct 1875 -?) who married Luther Race Puckett (both my G Grandparents). Mary's father was John LaFever (1840-1889), and grandfather Eli LaFever (1803-1886) who married Mary (Polly) Steele (1809-1889), daughter of John (or Jackie) Steele (1783-?). Any connection to your LaFever or Steele lines? If so, would welcome any family info you may have on these. Would be glad to provide you what I have on them. I also have ties to Loves, Smiths, Burtons, Leagues, Medleys, Maxwells, Gentrys, Nulls, others from DeKalb, Jackson, White Co. Max Puckett -----Original Message----- From: Willie D Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 9:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TNDEKALB] Fisher Could that be Jesse BURTON rather than Bruton? If so, I think Jesse was a son of old Henry Burton and Mary Williams. It certainly would be probable. I descend from John Fisher III and his wife Alcey Reynolds, who married about 1828 in Smith County. The Burtons, Smiths, Maynards, LaFevers, Williamses, Steeles, etc.....all intermarried. I'm related to them all in one way or another. Will ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Callier" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 5:50 PM Subject: [TNDEKALB] Fisher > Hi, > > I'm having a difficult time tracing a Fisher ancestor. Annie/Annis Fisher m. Jesse Bruton in 1819 in the DeKalb/Smith county area. I have no information on her parents. Possibly the name of their children would help: > Rebecca, Nancy, Amanda, James Harvey, Horatio Wayne, Enoch, Rivers Risdon(or Risdon Rivers), Fisher Livingston, Hazelwood Smith, Cantrell Bethel, Annette Minerva and Thomas Hart Benton. > > The first 5 or 6 were born in DeKalb/Smith area. The remaining in the Springfield, MO area. > > Any info on Fishers in the DeKalb/Smith area at that time would be appreciated. > > Sincerely, > Laura Callier > > > ==== TNDEKALB Mailing List ==== > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Dekalb Co., TN list, use > [email protected] or [email protected] if > you are on the Digest list. > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ==== TNDEKALB Mailing List ==== Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Yep, John Steele was born 1786 in Virginia. He married Jane Compton in Wilson County, TN in 1810, and died August 1871 in Dekalb County, TN. His first wife died before 1844, when he married Mahala Goodman, and had two daughters by her. His son, William Steele, was born 1827. William Steele married Sissy McDole and had a son named James Steele born February 1850. James married Mary Jane (Bozarth) Smith-Lewis, widow of George Smith Jr. and James Knox Polk Lewis, in 1872. My maternal great-grandfather James Lawson Steele was born July 1879, and married Oma Smith, daughter of Charles Smith Jr. and Alice C. "Alacey" Fisher (daughter of Logan Gay Fisher and Martha Gregston, and granddaughter of John Fisher III and Alcey Reynolds), May 8, 1901 in Dekalb County. As for LaFevers......Eli LaFever was the brother of my third great-grandfather Andrew LaFever Jr., born 1814, who married Celia Steele, whom I believe to have been another daughter of John and Jane (Compton) Steele. (John's brother Alexander Steele married Lucy Compton about 1807 in Wilson County). Andrew's daughter, Louisa Ann LaFever (1847-1925) married William Henry Harrison Judd (1841-1919) in 1862. Their daughter, Leitha Catherine Judd (1877-1941), married William A. Rice (1871-1909), and they were my maternal grandfather William Logan Rice's parents. William Logan Rice (1904-1981) married Mary Dell Steele (1906-1987) March 25, 1926 in Putnam County, TN. Mary Dell was the daughter of the aforementioned James Lawson Steele and Oma Green Smith. Will ----- Original Message ----- From: "Puckett Max" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 9:11 AM Subject: RE: [TNDEKALB] Fisher > Willie, > I'm descended from Mary F. LaFever (Oct 1875 -?) who married Luther Race > Puckett (both my G Grandparents). Mary's father was John LaFever > (1840-1889), and grandfather Eli LaFever (1803-1886) who married Mary > (Polly) Steele (1809-1889), daughter of John (or Jackie) Steele (1783-?). > Any connection to your LaFever or Steele lines? If so, would welcome any > family info you may have on these. Would be glad to provide you what I have > on them. > > I also have ties to Loves, Smiths, Burtons, Leagues, Medleys, Maxwells, > Gentrys, Nulls, others from DeKalb, Jackson, White Co. > > Max Puckett > > -----Original Message----- > From: Willie D Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 9:09 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [TNDEKALB] Fisher > > Could that be Jesse BURTON rather than Bruton? If so, I think Jesse was a > son of old Henry Burton and Mary Williams. > It certainly would be probable. I descend from John Fisher III and his > wife Alcey Reynolds, who married about 1828 in Smith County. > The Burtons, Smiths, Maynards, LaFevers, Williamses, Steeles, etc.....all > intermarried. I'm related to them all in one way or another. > Will > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Laura Callier" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 5:50 PM > Subject: [TNDEKALB] Fisher > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having a difficult time tracing a Fisher ancestor. Annie/Annis Fisher > m. Jesse Bruton in 1819 in the DeKalb/Smith county area. I have no > information on her parents. Possibly the name of their children would help: > > Rebecca, Nancy, Amanda, James Harvey, Horatio Wayne, Enoch, Rivers > Risdon(or Risdon Rivers), Fisher Livingston, Hazelwood Smith, Cantrell > Bethel, Annette Minerva and Thomas Hart Benton. > > > > The first 5 or 6 were born in DeKalb/Smith area. The remaining in the > Springfield, MO area. > > > > Any info on Fishers in the DeKalb/Smith area at that time would be > appreciated. > > > > Sincerely, > > Laura Callier > > > > > > ==== TNDEKALB Mailing List ==== > > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Dekalb Co., TN list, > use > > [email protected] or [email protected] if > > you are on the Digest list. > > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== TNDEKALB Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== TNDEKALB Mailing List ==== > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Dekalb Co., TN list, use > [email protected] or [email protected] if > you are on the Digest list. > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >