Kentucky Is My Home! indian1
ELISHA SMITH a Cherokee, born 1863 in Georgia and died 1913 in Jefferson or Blount County, Alabama. He married Nancy Gassaway in Jefferson County, Alabama in 1886. The parents of the girl wouldn't let them marry, so they were running away. Elisha's mother died in childbirth. The girls mother ? (question) raised him until he was 10 years old, when she was killed by a train. Then a Uncle Jim Smith raised him somewhere in Tennessee. His children were Barbra Jean, born 05 April, 1897 died 10 June 1932, Euel Leslie Smith Novemeber 1902, don't when he died, William Jackson Smith, 15 April 1905, Ellen, 24 April 1908, don't know when any of the rest of the children died. He is my Great Grandfather.
Submitted by Barbra.
Destiny's Designs