Re: SMITH-JARRATT GENEALOGY by Austin Smith
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Re: SMITH-JARRATT GENEALOGY by Austin Smith
Brandon Smith 4/05/02
Brandon,
Looks like we have something else in common--July 13 is my wedding anniversary.Congratulations on your upcoming marriage!Another small connection--my stepson got married two years ago to a Ft. Smith, Arkansas, girl.
The easiest way to explain the cousin thing is to show you our two lines of descendancy.It makes it easier that we are both Smiths!
Major Robert Smith
John Smith(brothers)Thomas Jarratt Smith
George Washington Smith(1st cousin) Robert ArmstrongSmithHorace Carter Smith(2nd cousin) Robert George Smith
DeWitt Henderson Smith (3rd cousin) Robert Edward Smith
DeWitt H. Smith, Jr.(4th cousin) Austin Clifford Smith
DeWitt H. Smith III(5th cousin) Betty Dudley Smith
Brandon A. Smith(6th cousin)my children
As you can see, I am your father's fifth cousin (we both descend five generations from Major Robert).You and my children are sixth cousins.But since you are one more generation removed from Major Robert than I am, you are my fifth cousin, once removed.Your children will be my fifth cousins, twice removed (descended two more generations from Major Robert than I am).Your George Washington Smith is my first cousin four times removed, and so forth.
Make sense?
It is funny that we just missed being doubly related.The second wife of George Washington Smith was Elizabeth Greaves T. Henderson.I have to think that that's where your "DeWitt Henderson" comes from.They had a son named DeWitt Henderson Smith born in 1860, after whom your great-grandfather must have been named.Elizabeth Greaves Henderson is a great-granddaughter of General Joseph Dickson, who is my ggggg-grandfather.Thomas Jarratt Smith married Margaret Greaves, who was a first cousin (once removed) of Elizabeth Greaves Henderson.It just seems more complicated than it really is!
A web site sounds like a good idea, and I've seen several that are really impressive.I've had a bad experience with sharing information, though--I sent my file to several people I thought I could trust, and they apparently "shared" it, and someone posted it on Ancestry.com without permission.I'm still angry whenever I access that database and come up with my own information!I believe that we all should share and collaborate, but it irks me to have done all that work that someone else is taking the credit for.I never intended to publish on Ancestry, because I use it too much for research.
As you know from the book, Uncle Austin referred often to the Smith family tree by William Pryor Lewis.I ran across a cousin a couple of years ago who e-mailed me a copy of that family tree--another extra that I'll bet won't send through hotmail, but I'll give it a shot.It's a jpeg file, and I've never tried sending one of those before.If you don't receive it, I guess it won't go via hotmail.
I just noticed that it's 4:30 a.m., and the midnight oil has just about run out.I'll get back with you later!
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