How about RUFUS SMITH? Oral history has him showing up in Chattanooga area around 1866 with the news that our Amelia Reinman (Ryman) Smith had died in an accident in Marysville, CA (not TN). I have found a Rufus Smith living in Gold Hill, Placer Co. CA in 1861. Occupation - public administrator. Ella RYMAN Hauser, searching for Akin, Bosworth and RYMAN in TN and VA