. Molton family and kinsmen; Hooks, Hunter, Whitfield, Linn, Tuttle, Henley, Harris, Summerlin, Ware, Glover, Smith, Williams, Upmann and others. Reminiscences to the year 1857 . r 1875, andfrom his own lips I had a story which reads like ro-mance. He said that very soon after his wifes death,his mind turned back to Mary Smithers, whom he hadnot seen nor heard from in so many years. By this timeBirmingham had started and Dr. Smith had become avery rich land owner. In 1876 he said that he resolvedthat he must find Mary Smithers, if she were still there were trains to ride upon, and


. Molton family and kinsmen; Hooks, Hunter, Whitfield, Linn, Tuttle, Henley, Harris, Summerlin, Ware, Glover, Smith, Williams, Upmann and others. Reminiscences to the year 1857 . r 1875, andfrom his own lips I had a story which reads like ro-mance. He said that very soon after his wifes death,his mind turned back to Mary Smithers, whom he hadnot seen nor heard from in so many years. By this timeBirmingham had started and Dr. Smith had become avery rich land owner. In 1876 he said that he resolvedthat he must find Mary Smithers, if she were still there were trains to ride upon, and he went toLexington in search of the girl he loved when he was ayouth. When he reached Lexington, upon inquiry hefound only one member of the Smithers family left,and that was a half brother, Judge Zach Gibbons, thenjudge of a court. He said that he called on Zach andproceeded to ask him what had become of each andevery one of his brothers and sisters, naming Mary asthe last one of his inquiry. Some were married andliving in distant states, some were dead, and then JudgeGibbons told him that Mary had been married to , a prominent Methodist divine; that he was. John Hunter


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