HI: Looking for an obituary of an Esther (Easter) Eppler who was in the 1850 census of Crawford Co. as the head of household of her grandchildren. Easther Eppler 72 Edward Hines 19 John Hines 17 Elizabeth Hines 15 Archer 13 Thomas black serv 4 Her husband, John HInds, died in Van Buren, Crawford Co. in 1838. In 1842 her son David HInds had her named removed as one of the co-administrators of the John Hinds estate because of her marriage to a Jonathan Eppler. In 1843 her son, David HInds, husband of Margaret Ann Mattix died. By 1850 her daughter-in-law Margaret had married a Dr. John Autry and two of her youngest Cynthia and Mary HInds were living with their mother, Margaret. The rest of her children were living with their grandmother Esther Eppler above in the census above.. Margaret had five more children by Dr. Autry and died of the measles in TX. Esther's 2nd husband, Jonathan Eppler had evidently died before the 1850 census as she is head of household. As to what happened to those children in the census above - in 1851or 1852 , Edward & Archer (Archibald) Hinds emigrated to Tulare Co. CA. Young John died before the Civil War. Elizabeth married a Basham and moved to TX. Cynthia married a Wm. Marlar and died young in AR -probably in childbirth. He then married her cousin, Cynthia Bennett (dau. of Cinderella Mattix) and also moved to Tulare Co. CA. Mary (born a few months after her father David died) married a Downing/Downen and moved to CA also. Esther (Easter) Eppler is not in the 1860 Crawford Co. census. It is assumed that she may have died in AR between 1850 and 1860 or she moved elsewhere. We would like to find an obituary on her to see if it contains her maiden name. Are the Van Buren or Ft. Smith newspaper indexes available online? Regards, Nan Wolf