Two Wrong Smiths
# Two Wrong Smiths Twice now I've been handed a Cherokee James Smith as the father of my Mattie Smith, and twice the man's own sworn testimony has said otherwise. So I'm putting it in one place, because these keep spreading through other people's trees and I'd rather not do this a third time. Our Mattie Smith was born in 1883 and died in 1911. She married Thomas M E Manning. Their daughter Flora Mae Manning was Estelle Connor's mother, and Estelle was Kathy Riddle's mother. That's the line. Mattie's parents are unknown. They've been unknown a long while. ## The first wrong James Smith Dawes Cherokee #2265, Illinois District. He applied at Fort Gibson on 30 August 1900, age 44, post office Campbell. His father was Youngpig Smith, his mother Lizzie. His wife was Mary Linder. Two children — Charlie, born about 1882, and Mattie, born about 1885. A Cherokee Mattie Smith born in the mid-1880s is exactly what we are looking to find, but th...
