This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Walthall, Smith, Bailey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SMB.2ACI/249.293.4 Message Board Post: Eddene, I must correct something in your information on John Wesley Walthall, born Nov 25, 1848 in Benton Co. son of James and Patience Bailey Walthall. John Wesley Walthall married 1. Sarah Adeline Purnell, January 20, 1870, she died about 1880 as she is shown in the 1880 census but died shortly thereafter as John Wesley Walthall marries 2. Sarah Rebecca SMITH (not West) daughter of Robert Nicholas Smith and Amanda Frances Turner, Feb. 27, 1881, Both marriage dates and names were verified in the Benton Co. MO Marriage Books. John Wesley Walthall had five childlren with Sarah Adeline Purnell and six children with Sarah Rebecca Smith. This information was taken from his obituary printed in the History of Benton Co. Missouri, Vol. 2, page 106n and the 1880 census of Benton plus other family related information. I am descended from Robert NIcholas Smith through his son, William Hobson Smith brother to Sarah Rebecca Smith. Velma