Researching Surnames SMITH & STOWERS Looking for descendants of Jacob Smith and Nancy Stowers who may have information about Jacob's parents. Their children were Allenthus Beresford, John Riley, William A.J., Holdridge Henry, Mary Elizabeth, Martha Jane, Sarah Leila, Nancy Almeda, Joseph Sherman, Madison Beevan, Irena Susan and Cosby Ellen. Jacob, Nancy and some of the children moved from Lincoln County to Madison County, Ohio in the 1880's, where both Jacob and Nancy died from typhoid fever in 1892. An obit in the London Times (Ohio) states that Jacob's parents came to this country when he was 18 years old. (Presumably from England). Nancy's obit says she was a member of the Laurel Fork, WVA Baptist church. Her lineage is well documented. Irena was my wife's paternal grandmother, and lived to 98. Allan Cox, NC & FLA