This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gAC.2ACE/3055.5.2 Message Board Post: A quick 2-cents worth about the terrific info you provided. To clarify, Hettie Cooley was the wife who was murdered at Belle Grove and although the negro maid was arrested and convicted (she was never hanged because she was pregnant at the time of her conviction - she was given a reprieve until after the baby was born, after which they apparently still never got around to hanging her), family historian Nancy Beatty Melton once wrote me that she had pretty strong evidence that it was the "idiotic" brother from the 1880 census, David, who actually murdered Hettie. Just thought I'd throw that out there as a point of interest.