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/ZCC.2ACE/1418.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks Joetta. Do you think maybe the name Reese Woods as Laura/Laurette's father on her death record was just a clerical error? I bet that happened a lot. I have only come across a few men named Reese. I know I have seen records and known the info was wrong. That is why I am so confused about the father's of Millie's children. The fathers on their death records don't always match other known information. What a find you have in the divorce record for Millie and Reese Holly. Will they let you look at divorce records in Boone County? You have probably got Jerdan and Ruth McCormick on your tree somewhere or ran across the family at least. They were married in 1864, divorced a few years later, he got the three kids, of course! Then he married another woman, but went back to live with Ruth and had two more children with her. I only know this because of his civil war pension papers. There is a signed afidavit stating that the reason he divorced the second wife and remarried Ruth was because the! neighbors were threatening to have him arrested for living in sin, or maybe they called it bigamy. I would like to see their divorce papers, but always thought they were off limits. This all happened in Lincoln, Boone and Kanawha, so it could be the divorce records were lost in the Lincoln County Court House fire, but if not... Also, you may have found Millie's death record on line or at the courthouse, but the handwriting on the record is so bad that if you search her name in the database it won't come up. The easiest way I can bring it up is to search year 1919, Lincoln County and Pauley as the last name. The name on the list that comes up looks like Meliann Pauley, but it's really the record for Millie. I know her father was Jordan/Jerdan Smith, but the record looks like Pap of Paf Smith. Some sort of nickname? He died in 1860, so it's a wonder anyone would even remember 69 years later. Maybe the pesron reporting Millie's only heard her refer to him as "Pap" short for Pappy. Just thinking. It's nice to know there is someone else interested in this branch of the family. Lora