This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5BC.2ACI/434.2.1 Message Board Post: John Smith was orginally Johan Schmidt. Barbara was his second wife. By his first wife he had 5 children, as shown by his will. His daughter, Mary, nickname Polly, married John Meals, not John Mills, and they moved to Kentucky, then to Missouri. I am a descendant through their oldest child, John Newman Meals.