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/SCWBAIB/3505.1.1 Message Board Post: Wish I could help. Looks like the straw blew away and the brick wall is still there. Betty Bell Decker Wells was born in July 1860 and she was sister to Mahalia and Daniel. She died in Picher, Oklahoma Nov. 13, 1932 and is buried at Cotterville, Mo. Cemetery. She Married Richard Wells November 13, 1878 in Pulaski County, Kentucky. They had 9 children Dollie (Doll) Cora Wells being the youngest born in 1901 and died in the 1960’s at Webb City, Mo. and is buried at Cotterville, Mo. Cemetery. She married only once to George Hastings and had only one Son, James Hastings who moved to Vallejo, Calif. In the 1940’s to work in the Naval Shipyards and he died there in the early 1990’s never having married. I know how frustrating it is trying to trace an ancestors and especially female ones. Wish I could help more. Here is something someone passed on to me. Perhaps it will give you a chuckle. 10 Rules of our ancestors -OR- How to confuse your descendants -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Thou shalt name your male children: James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Abel, Richard, Thomas, William. (2) Thou shalt name your female children: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Ida, Virginia, May. (3) Thou shalt NOT use any middle names on any legal documents or census reports. (4) Thou shalt, after naming your children from the above lists, call them by middle name or by strange nicknames such as: Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly, Sukey. (5)Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so that your surname can be spelled, or misspelled, in various ways: Hicks, Hicks, Hix, Hixe, Hucks, Kicks. (6) Thou shalt, after no more then 3 generations, make sure that all family records are lost, misplaced, burned in a court house fire, or buried so that NO future trace of them can be found. (7) Thou shalt propagate misleading legends, rumors, & vague innuendo regarding your place of origination. (A) you may have come from : England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales....or Iran. (B) you may have American Indian ancestry of the______tribe...... (C) You may have descended from one of three brothers that came over from______ (8) Thou shalt leave NO cemetery records, or headstones with legible names. (9) Thou shalt leave NO family Bible with records of birth, marriages, or deaths. (10) Thou shalt name at least 5 generations of males, and dozens of their cousins with identical names in order to totally confuse researchers.