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/4081.1 Message Board Post: To answer your question, Sarah Jane Gass who married James Benjamin Smith was the daughter of Nancy Lane and Joseph Gass. Joseph was married 3 times: 1. Nancy Catherine Malone 1841 and they had l child: John Marion in 1852. 2. Nancy Lane 3/31/1861 3. Sarah White 10/11/1866 I ony show 2 children with Nancy Lane: Sarah Jane b. l//4/1861 (prior to marriage), and Susan b. 1862-66 With Sarah White I show 8 children and I have those names and dates if you want. Joseph Gass was the son of William Gass (1786-1847) and Nancy Carter Reynolds (c.1790-1860) m. 5/30/1811. They had at least 8 children whose names and dates I have. William Gass was the son of Jacob Gass b. c. 1858-60 Ireland, d. 1799 Greene Co. TN. m. Mary Unknown in Ireland. They had 7 children whose names and dates I have. Nancy Lane's parents were William Lane and Susannah Haynes. I don't have all of James and Sarah Jane's children, only Hobe, Benjamin, Worley, Cara and Charles Arthur. James Smith died in Kansas.