In a message dated 10/29/98 4:16:56 PM, [email protected] wrote: <<Facts: My mother was married to a man named Lester Allen Kennedy b 1906 Carter Co. Ok. She married him in 1935 (we have the certificate) She was divorced by 1940 when she married our dad Both she and my father are gone now and we think Lester is also. WHAT WE THINK: That Lester beat mother up and she lost a child That maybe somehow he was kin to the Kennedy's and she was threaten to be quite along with her family?? That's my story what do you think????? >> since you know when lester was born, why dont you try tracing his tree? That would help you find out if the Kennedy portion was true. Lisa