Since July, the family of Solomon B. Smith in Giles County, Tennessee, looked to me like a deadend street. I heard from Beth Mize who had only two names of his children, Martha Caroline and Nancy Louisa Jane, but no other information and leads. In her response, she asked for information on the parents of Solomon Smith and Rose Anna, or Rosannah, Leath, and knew, as I pointed out in previous postings, that Rosannah�s mother was Catherine Sanduski and Rosannah was named after her grandmother, Rosannah, wife of Emanuel Sandusky, written Seduskie in Tennessee records. Gladys Shannon was interested in Solomon Smith. Again I don�t know what her connection was to Smith. Doris James was a little more forthcoming. �I may be related to the Solomon Smith who married Roseanna Leath,� she wrote. �Was he the son of Elijah Smith?� The Leath family history stopped with the marriage of Solomon Smith and Catherine Sandusky. Thus I was hampered from doing more research until I developed a census history of this family. The 1850 census of Giles County presents a better picture of the Smith family. It listed his age as 45 years and birthplace as South Carolina, and his wife, listed as Rose Anna, was 38 and born in Tennessee. The first two names, John and Nancy N.(?), were each 20 years old, and in a box following their names was this significant item �Married within year.� It meant that John and Nancy were not twins but husband and wife and still part of the Solomon Smith family. Knowing that Rose Anna, or Rosannah, was born about 1812, and John was born in 1830, Solomon Smith and Rosannah Leath must have been married in 1829, when the bride was 17 years old, or around that time. Remember the question Doris James asked. Was Solomon the son of Elijah Smith? In the 1840 census of Giles County, Elijah Smith, then in his fifties, and a free white female, then in the 15-20 year range, were living in the same area of Giles County amidst the Fleamans, the Leaths, and John Sandusky. The elder Elijah Smith was not listed in 1850. The next son that Solomon and Rose Anna Smith had in Tennessee about 1832 was named Elijah. Evidently he left the household in the 1850s. He is not listed with the other siblings in 1860. If he had descendants, I would like to have this information. Did Elijah fight in the war? The next child, Martha Caroline, whom Beth Mize recalled, was 16 years old in 1850. What more do we know about her? Like Elijah, she must have been married in the 1850s and left the family hearth. She was not listed with the parents in 1860. Two years younger than Martha Caroline was Solomon D. Smith and four years younger was Lucretia or Lucretica. Nothing else is known about them. They were not in the family group in 1860. So were they married and on their own? Four of the nine children listed in 1850 were still at home in 1860. These were Daniel, born in 1840, William A. M., 1842, Brittain Capel, 1844, and Nancy Louisa Jane, who was born in October, 1850. Three of these boys were of fighting age in 1861. Were any of them in the armies of the North or the South? Solomon and Rose Anna Smith apparently rounded out their family with the the birth of a girl, Kester A., in 1854. I already know that John Smith, last name of his wife, Nancy, unknown, had a daughter Dora in 1850(which must have been December because she was not listed in the November 1850 census). On 11 August 1870 Dora Smith married Calvin Mathese in Washington County, Tennessee. This is the kind of information I am seeking for all the siblings, whether any of the males shed blood during the war, the dates of death of the parents. Smith is such a common name. But the first names I have found in the census returns would help to fill in the blanks we have in the family group sheets. Please pitch in. I have a mail box for bulkier material. It is: Edward Pinkowski 10212 SW 59 St. Cooper City, Florida 33328-6531