Etta's formal maiden name was Margaret Arietta Thompson. Sometimes she just went by Arietta. One of her sons had written on his birth certificate that his mother was Ora Etta ..
She was the daughter of Archibald F. and Sallie G. Smith Thompson.
In Benton County, MS, Etta married first husband, James R. Simpson, m. 1876 -had seven children.
Etta & James R. Simpson lived in Lamar Co. TX for about a decade before she with the children moved back to Mississippi, and married James' brother. Whatever became of James Simpson in Lamar County is a mystery.
Some time around James' disappearance, Etta and James' oldest brother Thomas B. Simpson had a child together in May of 1889, and they married in August of 1890.
epitaph:
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
Etta's formal maiden name was Margaret Arietta Thompson. Sometimes she just went by Arietta. One of her sons had written on his birth certificate that his mother was Ora Etta ..
She was the daughter of Archibald F. and Sallie G. Smith Thompson.
In Benton County, MS, Etta married first husband, James R. Simpson, m. 1876 -had seven children.
Etta & James R. Simpson lived in Lamar Co. TX for about a decade before she with the children moved back to Mississippi, and married James' brother. Whatever became of James Simpson in Lamar County is a mystery.
Some time around James' disappearance, Etta and James' oldest brother Thomas B. Simpson had a child together in May of 1889, and they married in August of 1890.
epitaph:
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
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