Researching the SMOTHERS families out of Orange Co., North Carolina, that settled and lived in middle Tennessee circa 1795-1880. Most settled near the Kentucky line (Walker's line) in what was then eastern Sumner Co. and western Smith Co., TN, and is now western Macon Co., TN. They lived along or near the Ridge, Goose Creek, Trammel Creek, etc., near present day Eulia and Siloam in western Macon County. Families living in that area circa 1800-1850 include those William and Nancy SMOTHERS, James and Margaret (Summers) SMOTHERS, Edmond and Catherine SMOTHERS, Eli and Margaret (Pyles) SMOTHERS, Elihu and Mary (Jacob) SMOTHERS, Hiram and Sally (Rhodes) SMOTHERS, and John and Elizabeth (Davis) SMOTHERS, to name a few. Their SMOTHERS sons/daughters/brothers/sisters are known to have married in Sumner County into the following lines : ANGLEA, BARBER, COOK, Davis, FAGG, HAMMACK, HATCHETT, HUNT, JACOBS, LINDSEY, POWELL, Pyles, RUMLEY, SMOTHERS, STINSON, Summers, VAUGHN, WIGGINGTON, and WHITE. By 1855, most of these SMOTHERS families moved on to other parts of Tennesse (Carroll County for example) and/or to southern Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas