Ancestral and related families of the author Ailcy Dora Dean Smith. She was born in 1930 in Cullman County Alabama. The daughter of Adolphus Smith (b. 1911) and Flora Gladys Moon Smith (b. 1913). She married Luther Allen Cress in 1948. Ancestors lived in Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, South Caroline and elsewhere.

Thomas Bottom, son of John Bottom and Elizabeth, was born in about 1708 in Henrico County, Virginia. He married Rebecca Wilkerson and Unity Alford. He was the father of eleven children. He died in 1789. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia and Kentucky.