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