"The merging of two slave families: The Lenoirs of Fort Defiance North Carolina and Levi Smathers of Haywood County North Carolina. Dorcas Smathers born about 1840 in South Carolina and "bought directly off the auction block" in Charleston by Levi Smathers along with her son Jefferson." ~Gwen Walker Cradle
"The merging of two slave families: The Lenoirs of Fort Defiance North Carolina and Levi Smathers of Haywood County North Carolina. Dorcas Smathers born about 1840 in South Carolina and "bought directly off the auction block" in Charleston by Levi Smathers along with her son Jefferson." ~Gwen Walker Cradle