Person:Katherine Smith (11)

birth parents: Frederick Smith and Helen Fullerton (1)

THE MIDDLE NAME EUNICE MAY HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM THE NAME EUNICE ROATH OF NORWICH CT WHO DIED JULY 9,1850. SHE WAS BORN EUNICE TYLER AND WAS MARRIED TO ROSWELL ROATH. HER SECOND SON WAS JAMES HUNTINGTON ROATH AND HER FIRST DAUGHTER WAS EMMA MERCY ROATH. JAMES H. AND EMMA ARE NAMES FOUND IN THE HOUSEHOULD OF CATHERINE SMITH'S GRANDFATHER CHARLES J SMITH. INDICATING A POSSIBLE CONNECTION TO THE NORWICH CT ROATHS. THERE IS A CHARLES SMITH AGE 10 LIVING IN THAT ROATH HOUSEHOLD ON THE 1850 NORWICH CT CENSUS. CATHERINE E SMITH WAS BAPTISED AT ST MATTHEWS R.C.CHURCH 1123 EASTERN PARKWAY BROOKLYN NY. HER NAME IS SPELLED KATHERINE ON HER BAPTISMAL CERTIFICATE AND MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. SHE CHANGED TO THE SPELLING CATHERINE SMITH LATER IN LIFE. CATHERINE SMITH REAVES OFTEN PROUDLY SPOKE OF HER INDIAN GRANDFATHER CHARLES SMITH. SHE SAID HE WAS AN INDIAN FROM CONNECTICUT AND A SHOEMAKER. SHE WAS TOLD HE WAS A HALFBREED AND BELIEVED IT WAS HIS MOTHER WHO WAS FULL BLOODED INDIAN. CATHERINE SMITH STATED THAT WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG SHE AND HER FAMILY USED TO MAKE FUN OF A U.S. PRESIDENT WHO CLAIMED DISTANT INDIAN ANCESTERY WHILE SHE AND HER SIBLINGS HAD AN INDIAN GRANDFATHER, MAKING THEM FAR MORE INDIAN THEN HE WAS. Catherin Smith also used the terms Eurasian and Mulatto when refering to her racial identy. These terms were used by Catherine Smith around the 1930 time period according to her daughter Irene Reaves. IN SEPTEMBER 2003 KATHERINE SMITH'S DAUGHTER, IRENE REAVES DEGNEN, TOOK A DNA ANCESTRY TEST BY DNAPRINT GENOMICS. THE RESULTS WERE 82% EUROPEAN AND 18% NATIVE AMERICAN. I BELIEVE 12 OF THE 18% NATIVE AMERICAN DNA IS FROM CHARLES JAMES SMITH, THE GRANDFATHER OF KATHERINE SMITH. THE REMAINING 6 0F THE 18% NATIVE AMERICAN DNA IS FROM IRENE REAVES DEGNEN'S FATHER'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY.