I've been doing genealogy research on my wife's family. It goes back to Felix Baker and Laura Ann Smith in the area of Catawba, Lincoln and Gaston Counties in North Carolina.

Laura Smith's mother was Eliza Smith. I found that Eliza was raised by a woman named Polly Bollinger. The Bollingers were a big family in the area. Most of these families were German orginally from the "Dutch" country in PA.

I searched for several years and looked at many clues but I now believe that Eliza was the daughter of Aaron Goins and Ann Leonard. She was born when Aaron and Ann were 15/16 years old and well before they were married.

I describe my research on this web page:
http://www.silogic.com/clarno/Parents%20of%20Eliza%20Mahaly%...

I'd like to know your thoughts about it and if you have any information that you can share that might help me prove or disprove my theory.

Thanks,
Mark DiVecchio