This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/851.1 Message Board Post: Hello Johanna, Death Certificates in Arkansas are availabe from February 1914, and some originals for Little Rock and Fort Smith from 1881. In the Lee Cemetery, located 2 1/2 miles east of Gregory, Woodruff Co., AR, it list John (Wilson) Lee, born 1846 and died 1928, aged 82 years. Buried with him is his first, (per Woodruff County Cemetery Records), Mrs. (unknown) and several children, no names or dates. After the death of Mrs. Lee in the early 1900's, Miss Minnie Thompson, along with her family, settled near Gregory. Both of the families came from North Carolina. The two families had much in common and became good friends. In 1912, Minnie Thompson and John Willis Lee were married, and in November of 1913 their first child was born--a daughter , Valena Carine Lee. She was followed by Opal D. Lee and Maynard D. Lee. John Willis Lee died in 1928 and was buried in the cemetery on the family farm, near the grave of his first wife. When John Willis Lee died he was the owner of nearly 1000 acres of land.he had worked on. The farm was left to the four children. After the death of John W. Lee, Minnie Lee married Henry McCarty and both of them are now deceased. Opal D. Lee married Elo Peters. Hopes this helps. Best regards, Gary Telford Family Roots Woodruff County Monitor