Thank you. I will SAM Suggest you write to: Bill Finch, PO Box 560, Crossett, AR 71635 phone - 870-364-7689 He has the Wither's line and sure he would know. Rebecca DeArmond-Huskey www.seark.net/~rdea/ www.seark.net/~history/ >>I'm working on a story about Mary Robinson Withers Bond, who organized the >>First Methodist Church of Hamburg in 1850. He was a sister to a Captain >>Robert J. Withers, steamboat captain, who killed his brother-in-law, John >>Cook Downey on August 8, 1860. Can anyone tell me anything about the >>murder. I would like to know why he killed him, where, and how. Also, why >>didn't Capt. Withers go to jail? ============================== Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp Shirley Ann (Shewmake) Manning, editor The Mountain Signal P.O. Box 683 Mena, AR 71953 http://www.menaar.com mtsig@alltel.net