This John D. Smith, who married Minnie Myrtle Garland Smith is an ancestor with information that was given to me by mom, sis and other family members with resourced factual information, that he was not born Tennessee, he was actually born in North Carolina or South Carolina, his father reputed to be William A. Smith, with rumors the A could be for Arthur, that he was most likely to be born in Catawba community of South Carolina, where him and Myrtle went when she gave birth to their son Big Zeke. He has brothers and sisters in South and North Carolina, fairly large family from my research.
