This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: lebetter; smiley; hatcher Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/1222 Message Board Post: my great grandmother was bettie e. ledbetter (listed on the 1880 census b. tenn) and in 1891 she married john paxton smiley. i am trying to ind out which line of ledbetters that she ties into. i would also like to find out what her sisters name is, as the only hatcher at that time was martin hatcher with wife addie. the following was sent to me a few years ago but anyone that might have any leads would be appreciated. i have this accident figured out as accuring between 1904-1909. i wold love to find out also if an actual copy might be available thru the local newspaper. "The Heritage of Blytheville, Arkansas" by Ophelia Richardson Wade cpr 1973 "Page 20-" Bettie Smiley(Bettie Smile, aged 38 when she died, buried North Sawba) drowned in the bayou near Luke's (Luke Idumea Richardson 1868-1951) house. She left her husband, John Smiley (John P. Smiley, 1862-1942, buried Elmwood Cem.Blytheville) and about five children. She, her sister (Mrs Hatcher), and the baby were out riding in a small boat, when it overturned and neither of them could swim. The baby's rubber pants kept it afloat. The woman sunk to the bottom and they had to dive and huge hooks to find their bodies. John Smiley sat on a stump ar the edge of the bayou while all this was going on, because he could not swim either. Robert Sander's mother and father raised one of the Smiley girls. Arthur Massey married the girl that the Sanders raised.