I joined a Yahoo group yesterday for Chilton County Alabama researchers that led me to some interesting discoveries. While searching through posts and looking at files for this group, I found a list of Chilton County names that come up in the Alabama Inventors Database. One of my husband's ancestors, John Owen Smith (abt 1833-abt 1900), invented an apparatus for drying and curing lumber! The Inventors Database connects to the U. S. patent drawings and specifications for his invention. I was so excited to find something like this! Patents for John Owen Smith
In the files of this Yahoo group, I also found a reference to a database on FamilySearch.org of Alabama County Estate Records. This time I found the estate records and will of John Owen Smith, the inventor!
For more information on John Owen Smith, see also this page that is a personal recollection by one of his grandsons: John Owen Smith.
John Owen Smith is my husband's great-great-great-grandfather.
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