I AM HAVING A HARD TIME FINDING ANYTHING ON MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER SAMUEL SMITH. HE WAS BORN 1842 IN TN. ALL I REALLY KNOW IS HE MARRIED MALVINA STEEL AUG 24 1870 IN DEKLAB ALABAMA, AND HAD TWO SONS JAMES WILLIAM SMITH, AND NOAH SMITH. THEY LIVED IN SEVERAL COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE, MAINLY MARION COUNTY. THERE ARE NO RECORDS I CAN FIND ON HIM.YET....I HAVE HEARD A COUPLE OF STORIES OF HIM BEING MURDERED IN TENNESSEE SOMETIME AROUND 1911. I KNOW HE LIVED IN THE MOUNTAINS....BUT THERE IS NO OTHER INFORMATION. MY QUESTION IS DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY ADVICE ON HOW I MAY ABLE TO FIND OUT ABOUT A MISSING PERSON OR A MURDER BACK IN THE YEAR 1899 TO SAY 1911??? I LIVE IN IDAHO.... THANK YOU JENNY

I don't know anything about the family you are looking for, but here are some suggestions. Write the County Court House where he got married. Ask them for a copy of the marriage license or bond. List his full name, the brides full name, and the date they married. If you know their ages you can list that also. You can find out the cost, which is usually nominal by going to that states web page and searching through till you find the cost for your county. Do you belong to Random Acts of Genealogy Kindness? If so you could look up the County in Tn. that you know he lived in, and surrounding counties. After you get that info, if there is someone willing to do lookup work, you could ask them to search for a murder about your date. If there is no one listed from RAGK, then you will have to dig into each county and find which ones had newspapers during that time. You could write the paper, and see if they have archives on line, or would look for the murder for you. Also look for Funeral Homes. A lot of them have all the records, and most are happy to give you a copy of any record pertaining to your relative that they have. You could also write Tn. State Archives, and ask them to do a search for you for the date you have listed. They will want as much info. as you have, name, dob, dod, wife's maiden name etc. etc. There is a fee for this, which is listed on their home page. Be sure to ask for a certified copy and that they list the cause of death. If you don't ask for the cause of death they won't list it on the Death Certificate they send you. Hope this helps some, Good Luck. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "JENNY SMITH" <pinkpanther7@peoplepc.com> To: <TNWARREN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:54 PM Subject: [TNWARREN] MISSING PERSON QUESTION >I AM HAVING A HARD TIME FINDING ANYTHING ON MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER >SAMUEL SMITH. HE WAS BORN 1842 IN TN. > > ALL I REALLY KNOW IS HE MARRIED MALVINA STEEL AUG 24 1870 IN DEKLAB > ALABAMA, AND HAD TWO SONS JAMES WILLIAM SMITH, AND NOAH SMITH. THEY LIVED > IN SEVERAL COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE, MAINLY MARION COUNTY. > THERE ARE NO RECORDS I CAN FIND ON HIM.YET....I HAVE HEARD A COUPLE OF > STORIES OF HIM BEING MURDERED IN TENNESSEE SOMETIME AROUND 1911. I KNOW HE > LIVED IN THE MOUNTAINS....BUT THERE IS NO OTHER INFORMATION. > > MY QUESTION IS DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY ADVICE ON HOW I MAY ABLE TO FIND OUT > ABOUT A MISSING PERSON OR A MURDER BACK IN THE YEAR 1899 TO SAY 1911??? I > LIVE IN IDAHO.... > THANK YOU > JENNY > > > ==== TNWARREN Mailing List ==== > This TNWARREN mailing list is provided by RootsWeb. > It is the joint mailing list of the Warren County Genealogical > Association and Warren County TNGenWeb Project. > No commercial activities are allowed on this list. > Please see full list rules here: > http://www.tngenweb.org/warren/tnwarren.htm > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >