Charlie Lee Smith was born in 1931 in Dallas, Texas. He married Edith Geraldine Heflin, daughter of Otho Henry Heflin and Josephine Cross, in 1949 in Rockwall, Texas. They had six children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.

Charlie Lee Smith, Jr. son of Charlie Lee Smith and Edith Geraldine Heflin, was born in 1956 in Downey, California. He married Carla Jean Wright, daughter of Harold Loren Wright and Marion G. Robinson, in 1979 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Maine, Illinois, Ontario, Wisconsin and Nebraska.

Contains brief histories of the ancestors and relatives of Edward Everett Grove (1922-1966) of Kansas and California, son of Samuel Virgil Grove (1896-1979) and Lucy Ethel Raney (1901-1984). Earliest ancestors include the following: James Raney (1820-1896) and Sarah Ann Cordry (1822-1913) of Kansas; and Maslin Eli Groove (ca. 1820-1865) of Ireland and West Virginia and his wife Lee Ann Spielman (1821-1892) who died in Illinois.

"Mordecai McKinney, probably b. about 1690, probably in Scotland; m. probably 1713, probably in East Jersey; d. 1759 or 1760 in Lebanon Township, Hunderdon County, New Jersey. [His wife] Mary Seb(e)ring , perhaps a granddaughter of Roelof(f) Sebring, probably b. near the present Raritan, New Jersey. ... The time of arrival of this family in this country has been given as "1749. 1750. or 1751 ..."--P. [1]. Descendants and relatives lived in New Jersey,...

"The American Hungates trace descent also from Col. Francis and more recently from Sir Francis, Bart. and Margery, daughter of Charles, Lord Carrington ... "--P. [1] second notebook. Some of their descendants emigrated from England to America. "(There is some obscurity as to the movements of this family after they left Yorkshire until 1747 when they appear as pioneers in the wilds of Virginia, West of the Blue Ridge) ... The first recorded evidence...