Hugh Smith Paternal Family Tree
There’s a lot of information on this. The last three of four generations before dad ended up including a lot of criminals. When I found out his biological father, George, murdered his younger brother Noah and spent ten years in prison for the crime (I guess murder didn’t get a life sentence in 1932) I officially threw in the towel.
There may be good stuff in his lineage (like fighting in the Revolutionary War) but I now have a clear understanding why dad left Tennessee behind and would never let it touch his family. I sincerely hope he did not know who his biological father was and I also hope he was still living in Virginia when all mess surrounding the murder was going on.
