Rufus Biggs Smith was born 20 October 1854. His parents were Harry Rhodes Smith and Anna McNaughton. He married Edith Harrison, daughter of Learner Blackman Harrison and Francis Maria Goodman, 29 December 1886 in Cincinnati, Ohio. They had six children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Ohio.

Learner Blackman Harrison s father Edmond was a son of William Harrison of Northampton Co., North Carolina, who had moved from Brunswick Co., Virginia. Brunswick had seperated from Prince George Co., Virginia, as will be seen in the chapter on Proven Harrisons. This book attempts to make a case for William of Virginia and North Carolina being desended from the first immigrant Benjamin Harrison of Wakefield in Surry Co., Virginia and thus from the Harrisons of Gobion s Manor in Northamptonshire, England. B4362HB - $40.00

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Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of John Shears Olliff and Johannah Jackson. John was born ca. 1752 in North Carolina. He was the son of J. Olliff and Mary Shears. Johannah was born ca. 1755. She was the daughter of Joseph Jackson and Ann Jarvis. John Olliff married Johanna Jackson ca. 1785 in North Carolina. They lived in Bulloch Co., Georgia and were the parents of three sons and three daughters. Descendants lived primarily in Georgia.