This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Denton, Deford, Smyers Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XSB.2ACE/12393 Message Board Post: I am looking for any family members for Nellie Denton Deford. She was the daughter of Tracy and Clara Smyers Denton. She was born about 1914 or 1915. Her mother died in 1916. Her death certificate states Pulmanary Edema as cause of death. Funeral records list she died in childbirth. There is an Anna Denton buried beside her. Nellie was raised by her father Tracy and stepmother Ethel Englehart Denton. Nellie is listed as Nellie DeFord on her grandfather's (John Smyers) will and she is living in Nelsonville, Hocking County, Ohio. This was in 1941. I don't know what her husbands name was. Clara was my dad's sister. (my Aunt). I would love to have any information concerning Nellie. She also had a half brother Chester Denton. Nellie was born in Litholopis Ohio. Fairfield County. Thanks! Ruby Smyers Bush