What Lowerys and Spradleys are you talking about? Both names appear in early Collin County history? J "Mitzi K. Perkins" wrote: > > Hello, > Would your Smith line have any connection to Hunt County, or any other county in > the east Texas area? My paternal grandfather was Joseph Norfleet Hammond (son > of George Washington Hammond and Martha Birdsong) and his wifeMartha Jane > (Mattie) was a Pilkington; her mother was a Smith Mattie was born near > Greenville in Hunt Co. Joseph was from Wood Co. > . The Hammond family and related lines are of Native American descent > (Lumbee-Cherokee) of the North Carolina (specifically, Robeson Co.) and South > Carolina (Edgefield?) and Sumter Co, Georgia. From GA they moved into Texas in > approximately the 1860's. > Other surnames in the line are: Norfleet, Jackson, Birdsong, Israel, Lowery, > McSwain, Berry, Oxendine, Locklear, Davis, Webb, Wilkerson, Reagan, Bullard, > Williams, Spradley. > Any hint of a connection would be helpful. > Mitzi Hammond Perkins > > SUNMANOR@aol.com wrote: > > > No, my G. W. Smith is listed in Collin County living with his wife Elizabeth > > who was assumed to be full Cherokee Indian from North Carolina. This is the > > 1860 census for Collin Co., Texas. His daughter remarried when her husband > > Richard Cantrell was killed, evidently on the way to Texas (or Arkansas). > > > > Sunny Williams