This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Marcia36 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.maries/2318.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Since I receive all Maries County messages, I was particularly surprised to see comments about Louisa Nelson Simpson. Is it possible to know what the original questions about her were and the reason for the inquiry? You see, she is my great grandmother and I know quite a bit about her. To my knowledge I am the only one who has ever inquired about her in the last eight or so years.My original inquiry was to substaniate a family story about her being born illegimate.She was very ashamed of her status,and at the last when she was dying she quietly confided her situation to my grandmother Effie McCarty and told her never to tell anyone. My great aunts, Lillie Mae and Annie, my mother and her two sisters, never knew about it. My grandmother kept her word. Several months before Effie died she also whispered to me and said since I was the oldest granddaughter, that I should know the family skeletons, as her sisters and her daughters would never have been able to handle it. And so, when all the above passed on, I began to research the story and try to validate its truth. There were many Maries Couny researchers who gave me alot of family information about the Simpsons , their life in Maries Co, the Simpson and Miller trek to Texas in the early 1880's..I believe that they must have arrived in the winter of 1880, because that is when Louisa married Joseph.... They were not married in MO.They were married in Rule and married by Samuel Miller Joseph's father who was a minister ,in his home. Joseph and Louisa settled on a farm in Commanche County, Texas not Brown. .She had three children who all died in infancy before she gave birth to Effie. When Louisa became ill in early 1907 with uterine cancer, my grandmother brought her home to live with her on their ranch in Rule, Haskell Co to care for her , and Effie also raised her little sister Lillie Mae who was about 11 at the time. When Louisa died, Annie was married to Joe Byrd Billingsley and lived in Haskell, Texas. I can't find the exact date when Joseph and Louisa moved from Commanche, but I know that they were in Rule in 1902 when my grandmother married Will McCarty. Effie and Will were married in the back of a wagon after church and I believe that it may have been her grandfather Samuel presiding.from the way she described the wedding ceremony.Will needed to get home in time to feed the farm animals..! Ha!. All I know is that Effie and her sisters were very angry with Joseph and fell out with him soon after she died as he quickly took up with a widow woman who had children by the last name of Rose. He died a few years later. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.