I wonder if the Sandy Beat is Sandy Beach, an old stream used to run through there and it now flows into Sam Rayborn. If it's okay with ya'll, I will eventually post Smith, Conner, and Low family genealogies and contacts on the site. Have a great weekend, Ed >From: Papadoc1234@aol.com >To: TXSABINE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Fwd: [TXSABINE-L] Low-Conner Feud Website >Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 22:34:02 EDT > >--part1_9a.32cf199.261ff49a_boundary >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > >--part1_9a.32cf199.261ff49a_boundary >Content-Type: message/rfc822 >Content-Disposition: inline > >Return-path: Papadoc1234@aol.com >From: Papadoc1234@aol.com >Full-name: Papadoc1234 >Message-ID: <57.40d74c0.261ff405@aol.com> >Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 22:31:33 EDT >Subject: Re: [TXSABINE-L] Low-Conner Feud Website >To: firegrl@sierratel.com >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 102 > >Dear Candace > >We probably do not have a connection. The Smiths I am familiar with can >be >found on the 1860 Sabine co Census, at a place, I believe it was called >Sandy >Beat or something like that. There are a group of kinfolks in Hse 295 = >John >Smith, 296 and 297 = Deas or Dease, 298 = John Abney (he is married to a >dau >of John Smith), Hse 299 + Marion Henderson married to Nancy E Smith dau of >John. Marion and Nancy were married in Sabine in 1855 by John Abney. Hse >304 is John A Smith and Hse 305 = Obediah Smith, apparently a brother of >John. John and Obediah are obviously wealthy farmers, probably >slaveowners, >judging from their net worths. Further on is a suspected relation = Samuel >Smith in Hse 318. > Many of these Smiths wound up in Brown co.....Nancys civil war pension >app was signed by Brooke Smith (Brookesmith is the name of the town they >lived near, and I wonder..... other Smiths signing the app were David and >O >M Smith, wanna bet the O here does not stand for Obediah? > >These people for the most part are new arrivals in Sabine co, coming from >Union parish LA, where they can be found on the 1850 census there and on >Union Parish Police Jury records 1843-1846. The Nancy E Smith married to >Marion Henderson reported on her app for a CSA pension from Brown co TDX in >1924 that she was born in Clarke co AL. It turned out that her parents >John >and Mary Smith were married in Clarke co, and i have been told that john's >father was from Culpepper? county, Virginia. I am not looking at that >entry, but can come up with it and hope I am not misremembering that. > >Doc Henderson.......Papadoc1234@aol.com > >--part1_9a.32cf199.261ff49a_boundary-- > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com