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deceased.
Their mother, the second wife of Ernest Smoot, was Bessie Pearl Nicholson. They had married in Warren county on Feb. 15, 1958. She was a daughter of Odie Washington and Lizzie Corbin Nicholson, two more family names with deep and long roots in Rappahannock and Madison Counties.
The Smoot family traces its ancestry to one William
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