Re: Andrew Hounshell and Catherine Peck
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In reply to:
Re: Andrew Hounshell and Catherine Peck
10/19/99
Verna,
Your message on the bord really helped. I was not running your family line even though I had been running into a hold lot of them while working on the Philpots in Clay County, KY.They spelled this name in several different ways. A Jerry Gregory did a book called "Touching The Past" that you might want to look at since there are so many in his book. Anyway, I was trying to untangle a double Smith line. I have a William Smith who married a Nancy Jane.Recently I got information that she was a Hounshell born 1838 in Smyth County, VA.
Which of course led to Frank Hounshell and Sally Crow.
William Smith died sometime during the Civil War and all that I know for now is that he did not fight on the same side as his brother Isaac.As to which side each was on I'm not sure yet but there father was James Smith and Rhoda Owens.
Nancy Jane remarried a Hugh Turner.She had three children with William. Their only son John C. Smith married one of Isaac Smith's daughters thus the double Smith line.
After John C. and Sirelda had several children they went to visit her family. Her father Isaac reconized John as being William's son and more of less told them that they were living in sin being first cousins and married and on top of that was not welcomed in his home for that and for the fact that William fought on the other side. The family story is that they turn around and came back and never went back. They try to not have any more children. Usually families in that time period had as many as 15 children but they only had 7 or 8.Belinda