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Deborah, so sorry I did not receive your message but I just ran across it by accident today Dec. 31, 2004. I hope you didn't think I'd forgotten you-it was just that I didn't receive your message. My new email address: spstricklin@earthlink.net. I'm not certain if I am related to the Daniel Wilbanks that you mentioned but I am related to John Wilbanks who married 1. Sarah (2. Eliza/Louiza Williams*). I descend through John & second wife, Eliza/Louiza Williams. I'm trying to learn more about the Wilbanks and the Williams. My Wilbanks came from Lincoln County, Tn. I know very little about them except through the census records which I have just discovered this yr. I've been making several discoveries on my family and my husband's family this year. I was just going through some of the messages and accidently ran across your message and another lady's message to me that I never received. Betty Wood told me John married #1. Sarah Dollar. I suspect they probably married in Tn. I had no ideal who John Wilbanks was married to until I searched the census records again and found her name. Death Certificated stated John's name but not his wife's name. So when I check the marriage licenses listed on the Madison County, Al. website, I was pleasantly surprised to learn she was Eliza Williams. My husband has Dollar ancestors, Gunter ancestors, etc. One lady has been researching the Gunter line for yrs. This lady told me that our Gunter ancestor was probably a cousin to John Gunter, founder of Guntersville, Al. The Wilbanks, the Sharps come in on my mother's side of the family, along with the Smiths and Jones. Strangely enough our Smith Ancestor, John L. Smith claimed we descend from the line of Pochantas. How this can be-I am not certain. He was married twice. I'm not sure where the Indian came in unless maybe through a wife. John Little Smith married twice like I said. He had grown children when he married again to a much younger woman named Elenor Martha Taylor in Tn. Martha was about 22 and he was in his seventies in 1880. It's always been said that there was Indian in our Smith line but exactly how it comes in I don't know unless John Little Smith's mother was Indian but Martha & he had 3 children. He named his daughters: 1. Ponchantas "PO" and 2. Powhattan which are both Indian names. I was told Martha was the daughter of an Indian Chief of the Great Smokey Mtns. but I haven't found anything to substantiate it. I have no ideal if that is true or not. I don't have material to prove or disprove this. But we think that they were around Indians at some point because when my grandfather's brother was dying he did a death chant. Grandpa Smith and his father, Garfield were both very dark. Great grandpa Garfield told us he was part Indian, but how much I don't know and he had the ability to take off warts. He had uncanny senses too which may have been where the Indian imbreeding came into play. There was some kind of family disagreement or resentment between John Little's elder children with John's other children by his 2nd wife, and my great grandpa would never have anything to do them after that. John left a will providing for his children but whatever happened it has been said that great grandpa never claimed his inheritance. His father died right before or after Garfield's birth and then, his mother died 8 or 9 yrs. later so someone in the family took Garfield away probably to Texas. From all accounts they didn't treat him very well and he resented it. Can't say I blame him. Garfield married in Texas in about 1900 but he left because Bessie had the black plague. They went to Lincoln County, Tn. for a while then, eventually settled in Madison County, Al.
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