This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WCC.2ACE/1086.1181.1192.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes his first wives name was Lucy Gray. She was born Feb. 20, 1843 and divorced in 1877. They had 1 girl and 1 boy. John married a half sister to my great grandfather. Her name was Mary Smith. She had been married to a Gibbons and he drowned. They married in WV. Mary married John on Feb. 8, 1881. They had 3 girls and 2 boys. I am looking for information on Mary's family. Her father was George Washington Smith and her mother was an Andrews . That is all I know. I have a book written by a Cooper and it has all kinds of stuff in it about the Rakes. The Rakes and Smiths were neighbors up in Ohio in Noble/Monroe County. I live in Jackson County, WV where they all ended up at.