Yes Jim, do that....I would think she looked much the same in the 20';s or 30's...maybe different makeup style is all. Linda Young Nehring -----Original Message----- From: jey1@swbell.net To: mo-stlouis-metro@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, 8 May 2007 4:27 PM Subject: Re: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] More Info Jim, Please send me a copy off line also. I have a book Stars of the Movies published 1927 with 250 photos of "stars" of the 1920's.. I checked and she is not listed as Brown, Brasher, etc but Linda is has a good idea about a change of her name. I'll check out her photo - never know. Joan Schaller Yeckel jey1@swbell.net JAMES O BRASHER wrote: >Hi Linda: > >Tis a very good idea you suggest. I have a picture taken shortly after her appearance in the movie but can't think of where to post it. I have posted a picture of Betty Mae, taken about 1906 in Paragould, Arkansas on their web site. The only problem is that it doesn't show her in her 20s or 30s. > >Short of posting the picture, I am going to send you a copy off line. I also believe there may have been some sort of name change, perhaps even; "May West." But I can't swear to that.----Jim > ----- Original Message ----- > From: lsnehring@aol.com<mailto:lsnehring@aol.com> > To: mo-stlouis-metro@rootsweb.com<mailto:mo-stlouis-metro@rootsweb.com> ; mo-stlouis-metro-l@rootsweb.com<mailto:mo-stlouis-metro-l@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 11:13 AM > Subject: Re: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] More Info > > > Hey Jim...failing all else....can u put up a photo as a link for us? Maybe someone will recognize her and come up with the name she worked under. Betty Brown or Betty Brasher sounds rather commonplace...I'm thinking they would have changed her name altogether as they did so often then. > > Linda Young Nehring > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jims505@msn.com<mailto:jims505@msn.com> > To: mo-stlouis-metro-l@rootsweb.com<mailto:mo-stlouis-metro-l@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sun, 6 May 2007 11:52 AM > Subject: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] More Info > > My word, my friends on the list sure get rowdy with me sometimes when I leave > something undone. So here is the info I am searching for. > > Betty Mae Brown was the daughter of Septimus Brown and was born July 6, 1899 in > Ellsinore, MO in Carter County. She married Ralph Waldo Brasher Sr in Cape > Girardeau, MO, March 30, 1915 and became Betty Mae Brown Brasher. The happy > couple would have two children; Ralph Jr in 1916 and Nolda May in 1918. By 1919 > the happy couple was no longer happy and was divorced by the 1920 census. > > Sometime in the mid to late 1920s Betty would place her two children in homes > for wayward children in Independence, MO. The two children were approximately 6 > and 8 years old when this took place and I can't even guess how wayward a six > and eight year child can be. They would remain there until 1933. > > Knowing her great beauty could not be concealed from the world for any great > length of time, she headed for Hollywood where she would re-marry sometime in > the 20s, 30s or 40s. (I suspect the 30s) The mystery man had a last name; > "Stevenson," according to Betty Mae's death certificate of 1953, from Juneau, > Alaska. No one in the family knows what his first name was. > > I know she appeared in a movie but have not one shred of evidence what the name > was or what name she used; it could have been: > > Betty Mae Brown > > Mae or May Brown > > Betty Brasher > > Mae or May Brasher > > Betty Stephenson > > Betty Stevens > > Or any combination of the above names, but I suspect Brown. I have pictures of > this grandmother, who I have always thought of as "the wicked witch of the > north." I must admit she was a pretty good looking woman though. Most will > remember my search for Septimus Brown's second family and my brick wall. As a > refresher you can find that story at the below address. The found family was > Betty Mae's sisters and brothers. > > http://www.ancestrymagazine.com/2007/03/found/she-had-me-atjunkyard/<http://www.ancestrymagazine.com/2007/03/found/she-had-me-at-junkyard/<http://www.ancestrymagazine.com/2007/03/found/she-had-me-atjunkyard/%3Chttp://www.ancestrymagazine.com/2007/03/found/she-had-me-at-junkyard/>> > > The story was very well written by Megan Smolenyak, a professional genealogist > for Ancestry Dot Com Magazine. There you have it, my father's mother and another > closet full of skeletons.----Jim > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MO-STLOUIS-METRO-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:MO-STLOUIS-METRO-request@rootsweb.com> > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the message > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. 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