8.5 FRANCIS MARION PAUL (1833 - 1877)

is your 2nd great grandfather

8.4 MARIAH ELIZABETH PAUL (1861 - 1923)

daughter of 8.5 FRANCIS MARION PAUL

4.3 Grace Lillian Smith (1892 - 1970)

daughter of 8.4 MARIAH ELIZABETH PAUL

2.2 Ruby Camille Delong (1909 - 1979)

daughter of 4.3 Grace Lillian Smith

There are several Francis M Paul.  The trail gets really muddy because other trees at ancestry have William Paul and Margaret Green as his parents and this can't be since William Paul and Margaret Green Married in 1843 in Indiana.

Francis Marion Paul also states in his Civil War papers states his birth in St Charles, St Charles County, MO.  This same Paul's record show him dead by 1890.  I will need to pursue this more to really prove his parents.  No problem proving Mariah as his daughter.

4.6 JOHN SMITH Sr (1775 - 1847)

is your 3rd great grandfather

4.5 John G Smith Jr (1809 - 1880)

son of 4.6 JOHN SMITH Sr

4.4 JOHN CLINTON SMITH (1844 - 1915)

son of 4.5 John G Smith Jr

4.3 Grace Lillian Smith (1892 - 1970)

daughter of 4.4 JOHN CLINTON SMITH

2.2 Ruby Camille Delong (1909 - 1979)

daughter of 4.3 Grace Lillian Smith

Well as everyone knows there are many John Smiths.  I have proven so far the above but the next one is George Smith and I have him with 2 spouse with families at the same time so stopping until I can sort out which Smith is married to whom.

You may have noticed that there are numbers appearing before the names.  I am trying to get a grasp on the Numbering System Ancestral Lines.  It seems easier to associate who belongs to who.  And of course all my 1st cousins, children of Elmer "Bud" Delong" can substitute Ruby's name for his.