The history of the Smith-Kelly Family of the Rock Spring Community of Ro Ellen, Tennessee spans over one hundred years. The author spent over thirty years collecting data and information presented within this book.

The genealogical research by Royce Bryant Smith of the Atkins-Barbee Family. Inspired by the collection of data from the descendants of Mattie Pearl Atkins Parson, Smith has rightly named this book for the originators of the family. Tracing the history of Sandy Barbee who migrated to Lake County and finally Gibson County, Tennessee after Emancipation and Robert Atkins who settled in Newbern, Tennessee, Smith dedicates this production to its off-springs.

The family genealogy of the descendants of Katherine "Kate" Gardner, a slave from Virginia, and Calvin "Ruffin" Rodgers, a slave from North Carolina, is recorded until the year 2013. As with all genealogies, this work will remain a work in progress. It is with great pride that this work has finally come into fruition after a thirty year span of research.

The Collected Works contains the writings of R. Bryant Smith from 1999 - 2013. The collection includes his novels When the Children Get Together and Let It Be Real as well as a series of his short stories and poetry. Smith gives a glimpse of rural Southern African American same gender loving life as only he can. Truly a must read.

Do you remember your first time? When the Children get Together will take you down memory lane as you enter the world of Melvin James, from rural West Tennessee. The Tenth Anniversary Year of When the Children Get Together takes us all back to a time gone by yet oddly familiar.

By: Lawrence Dalton, Pub. 1946, Reprinted 2021, 408 pages, ISBN #978-1-63914-018-3. Randolph County was created in 1835 from Lawrence County and is located within the Ozark region along the Missouri border. This book is not too different from other county history books of this era. With such topics as towns, trade and transportation, labor, farming, politics, and race relations - all important in the development of the county - are carefully discussed. This type of county history book can help one develop ideas or paths to those missing ancestors by showing the customs and traditions of the local residents. A particular useful feature of this book are the biographical sketches of the following persons: Athy, Bryan, Campbell, Dalton (3), Decker, Davis-Spikes, Hite, Hogan (2), Ingram, Jarrett, Johnston, Johnson, Haynes, Holt, Lamb, McCarroll, Mock, Marlette, Maynard, Martin, Rickman, Ruff, Shride, Stubblefield, Schoonover, Smith, Shaver, Spikes, Taylor, McColgan, Thompson, Lemmons, Price, Wyatt and White.