This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hale White Payne etc., Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZMB.2ACI/1877.1.1 Message Board Post: Dear Wayne: You have helped me again! You have straightened out a lot of info that I have been trying to figure out. Where in the world did you get this info about W.A. Hale's wives? Thanks so much. What is confusing is that in W.A. Hale's obit, it says that his widow's name is "Bessie". An obit for one of her brothers says that her brother's last name was Williams and they lived in Lawrence County. I cannot find W.A. Hale's widow's obit. Do you know anything about W.A.'s other children? His son Carl Truman Hale had an obit in the Los Angeles Times. It said that Carl was in the first group of pilots in the Signal Corps in 1911. He was one of the "flying sergeants". He served in the Air Corps until 1938. He tried to rejoin in WW2, but they made him an instructor. He had a son named Carl T. Hale,Jr., but he passed away in 2004, before I could talk to him. If you have any more info on the life of W.A. Hale, please let me know. There are two photos of W! . A. Hale in Wayne Glenn's books--at The Library Center on South Campbell in Springfield Missouri. They show him as a teacher. He looked more like a gunfighter of the wild west. Thanks for all your help. I have recieved email from others which were not correct at all about W.A. They tried to tell me that W.A. was divorced many times. I think it is the 1910 census of Christian County that shows Ola White living with W.A. Hale as a school teacher who had no wife. Your info explains a lot. Thanks brian