Col. Sam Smith, NC Council of Safety, 1776, is Edith Smith Bryan Folsom’s father. He left a will. He wasn’t Chickasaw. Neither was Edith a Native American. English descendants of colonial immigrants from England. Read the history of the founding of Smithfield, NC and you will read about this Smith family.
These family lines are claimed in title honorarium from the role they played in oversight of the Patriot Tuscora bands in NC Chicasaw. The curators have locked this oer the request of the Folsom descendants in great numbers who are present day Chicasaw and Choctaw and who trace back, arena tree, to these lines.