Smith Official DNA & One Name Study

Hopefully, we will see if Jabel Smith is of the same family as my Smith.  I gave other researchers something to argue about and inspire men to test their Y-DNA.  I am not at all sure John Smith, possible father of John / Jonathan Smith had a father named Thomas.  I would expect to see more men named Thomas in my family if that were true.  I picked up some of my Smith research from older researchers, Tommy and Rose Smith, now deceased.  They claimed a Richard Smith was involved, but I no longer think that is true.  There would be more Richards in my Smith family.  I expect ancestors farther back named John, William, or James.

 

I found no marriage for John Smith and Telitha Sanders in Clay, KY.  There is a garbled marriage in Adair Co., KY.  It looks like John Sanders moved to Adair County from Clay, KY,and John Smith likely followed.  John Smith and Telitha definitely lived somewhere in Indiana in 1838, when my 2nd great-grandfather, William Smith,  was born there.  They may not have lived there long?  I have never found proof it was Hendricks County.  All of the John Smiths there do not seem to be my relatives.  It is hard researching John Smith.  I have family information back to John /  Jonathan Smith and photos.  I inherited many of my Smith grandparent's photos and papers, and I have researched for years.  I have found nothing that indicates John Smith was ever a Jonathan, but other researchers sometimes use that so I put the name on my tree so I can more easily recognize him.  John was in Phelps County Missouri later, and he died there.. His son, William Smith was a Confederate soldier, and went to Lamar Coury, Texas after the Civil War.  See documents on my tree.  His son, William Aladdin "Billy" Smith, lived in both Missouri and Lamar, Texas, but returned to Missouri.  My grandfather lived in Lamar Co., Texas as a boy, but returned to Missouri where he was born.  My grandfather, James William Smith, and my mother, M. Belle Smith Pigg were born in Missouri, and they both lived in southeast Kansas when they died.. I have researched all the descendants of John / Jonathan Smith that I could find, and I put them on my tree with documentation. I have had correspondence with Smith descendants over the years, but the men did not have the surname Smith.  William Franklin "Frank" Smith, formerly of Miami, Oklahoma, son of John Smith a great uncle for my mother had male sons.  I met his children when I was young, I remember mom's uncle Thel, Othello Smith, and some of his children who were double relatives to mom.  Both men mentioned had sons, but I do not know where they are now. Most of the Smith I have corresponded with are / were women..  There were at least two different Smith families in Lamar, Texas, but my Smith relatives there may have had sons?  I put a notice on John / Jonathan Smith's page in my Ancestry Tree for men named Smith to get a Y-DNA test at Family Tree DNA..