RESEARCHING My Louisiana Hays are the following, >From Marrero, Jefferson Parrish, New Orleans: Arthur Wood Smith, born 1890 in Massachusetts, settled in Louisiana, was a merchant marine and lived to be 91 yrs old. He was the son of: Josiah Smith born in Maine and Eva Victoria HAYS born in Halifax, N.S., married Mary A. Pierce an Irish girl born in Massachusetts. Some of their children were: {The spellings on surnames may be mispelled} Loretta S. Smith married Michael Byrne, Elizabeth P. {Jimmy} Smith married John Palacios?, Phyllis Smith, Arthur Wood Smith Jr., Patrick Smith, Mary Smith, Richard Smith, and Calvin Smith married Doris R. Any help on this family with obituaries or census records would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Betty J. Hays Woods