AN ALTERNATE SMITH HISTORY
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Mary Ann SIMMONS, dauther of Rueben and Francis SIMMONS
Supplied by Bob Ann Breland, given to her by Kermit Reeves, down the line of Mary Ann SIMMONS.
We know however that Ward SMITH was in AL by 1830, recorded in the censuses there through 1850. VA is never mentioned as a birth place. Instead, his father is thought to have been from VA. Ward SMITH is believed to have married Easter EVERIDGE.
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John C. Smith and his family lived in Virginia where he was in the Cavalry. So was his son, Ward Smith. After one of the raids on the Indian camps, John thought all the Indians were dead, but he found an Indian girl under a pile of wood. She was young and he did not want to kill her. He carried her home and raised her.
When she grew up, his son Ward married her and they moved to Kentucky and raised a family of two sons and three daughters. One of the daughters married Robert Reuben Simmons, who moved to Alabama and then on to Pike County Miss where he raised a family, five sons and two daughters. Mary Ann married James “Jim” Lang and Narcis “Dink” married Albert Winston Lang. Both Albert and Jim after starting a family moved to Sheridan LA. Albert and Narcis had sons Iva, Leslie, Norman, Narvil and Seldon and daughters, Fannie, Evie and Lillian.
Jim and Mary Ann had two sons, Monroe and Esco, and their daughters were Fannie, who married and moved back to Kentucky, but the others, Mattie, Della, Marjorie and Maud all lived in Washington Parish, married and had large families.
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