Peggy, Just a suggestion. If Angelina Smith of Warm Springs (my Aunt Minnie Reilley Dills grew up at Warm Springs in Oregon Co., MO) said that her sister moved from Neeleyville, MO in 1863 then I'd sure be looking there for the marriage. Usually a couple married at the home area of the bride. Pat Miller Peggy Cannady wrote: > My brick wall is still my ggrandmother, Angeline Davis Smith (7 NOV 1845-18 > NOV 1919), wife of Campbell Smith in Randolph County. I have looked for a > marriage record in Randolph, Lawrence, Clay, Ripley, and Oregon Counties > without success. The only info I do have on her is: > > >From "Directory of Randolph County, Arkansas,1910," compiled by L. F. > Blankenship, published by Star Herald Printing Company, Pocahontas, AR, > 1910: > Page 51, Hamil, ARK, Postoffice, Jackson Township > SMITH, CAM, 70 farmer, came from Tenn in 1859, married Angeline DAVIS in > 1863, 5 children, Cilla, Caroline, Cam, Mark and Nettie, 160 acres hill. > > >From Pocahontas Start Herald, 28 NOV 1919: Aunt Ann Smith died at her home > near here last Tuesday and was buried in Roach graveyard on Thursday. > > Found this newspaper article, which gives a little bit of a hint: > >From The News Herald, 7 SEP 1906, p 5: "Mrs Angelina Smith of Warm Springs > wishes to know the address of her sister, Nancy Jane Davis, who left > Neelyville, MO in 1863." > > The 1870 census gives birthplace for Angeline as TN, the 1880 gives IL, the > 1900 & 1910 say MO. Needless to say she has been very difficult to find! > There is this family on the 1850 census, and I'm wondering if her name was > actually Mary Angeline, and this could be her family? > 1850 Census, Randolph County, Arkansas, p 17, 29 October, 1850: > 31 242 242 Davis, Edman 53 M W TN Farmer, cannot read/write > 32 242 242 Davis, Deida 48 F W TN > 33 242 242 Davis, Nancy J 18 F W TN > 34 242 242 Davis, Edman C 16 M W TN Farmer > 35 242 242 Davis, William 13 M W MS > 36 242 242 Davis, Sarah 12 F W TN > 37 242 242 Davis, Mary 6 F W IL > > Peggy Cannady > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MO-OREGON-HISTORY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >