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SMAHA FAMILY

Posted: 1 Mar 2000 11:21AM GMT
Edited: 22 Jun 2001 7:22PM GMT
WE MUST BE DISTANTLY RELATED IN SOME FASHION. YOUR GRANDFATHER MIGHT HAVE BEEN A 2ND OR 3RD COUSIN TO MY GRANDFATHER WHO WAS BOULIS(PAUL) GEORGE SMAHA WHO CAME TO USA IN 1900 WITH FOUR BROTHERS. THEY SETTLED IN GEORGIA- ALL BUT ONE WHO RETURNED TO LEBANON00 HIS NAME WAS NORMAN SMAHA OR SAMAHA. THE USA SMAHA'S WERE SONS OF GEORGE SAMAHA AND THEY DECIDED TO DROP THE SAMAHA NAME AND USE GEORGE AS THEIR LAST NAME. MY FATHER WAS BORN PHILIP P. GEORGE AND AT THE AGE OF 10 OR SO THE FAMILY DISCOVERED THAT THEIR REAL SIR NAME WAS SAMAHA AND THEY VOTED TO CHANGE THEIR LAST NAME TO SMAHA. MY GRANDFATHER WAS IN HIS EARLY 20'S IN 1900. THEIR HOME WAS IN THE MOUNTAINS OF LEBANON AROUND THE VILLAGE OF CONCHARRA (NOT SURE OF THE SPELLING). THE OTHER THREE BROTHERS KEPT THE GEORGE LAST NAME AND SETTLED IN VALDOSTA GEORGIA.(2)OF THEM AHE 3RD BROTHER SETTLED IN GRIFFIN GEORGIA WITH MY GRANDFATHER. HE HAD 11 CHILDREN- SIX DAUGHTERS 3 OF WHICH ARE STILL LIVING- 1 IN LOS ANGELES CAL. 2 IN BIRMINGHAM ALA.AND FIVE SONS--ONLY ONE STILL LIVING IN MACON, GA. THERE WERE 25 GRANDCHILDREN ALL STILL LIVING IN ALA.,GA.S.C. VA. OR FLA.THERE ARE 5 GRANDSONS BEARING THE SMAHA FAMILY NAME LIVING 3 IN MACON 1 IN BIRMINGHAM AND MYSELF IN FLA. AND KY. THERE ARE MANY GREAT GRAND CHILDREN BUT ONLY 4 GRANDSONS BEARING THE SMAHA SIRNAME.SEVERAL STILL UNMARRIED GREAT GRANDDAUGHTERS STILL CARRY THE SMAHA NAME. IT IS A VERY SUCCESSFUL FAMILY MADE UP OF SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMEN AND BUSINESWOMEN AS WELL AS DOCTORS, DENTISTS, ENGINEERS, RESTAURANT OWNERS, TEACHERS ETC. HOPE I DID NOT BORE YOU -- I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR FAMILY--- JOE SMAHA-
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Carolyn_Groth 7 Oct 1999 7:38PM GMT 
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