Billie Jeanne Aka Willie Rae SMITH
1916 - 1996 (79 years)-
Name Billie Jeanne Aka Willie Rae SMITH Born 23 Jul 1916 Sevier County, Tennesse Gender Female Reference Number 10915 _UID CC1128B0726746EC9A5E5EB48686A1C23974 Died 14 Mar 1996 Blount County, Tennessee Buried Clark's Grove Cemetery, Blount County, Tennessee Person ID I10915 My Genealogy Last Modified 17 May 2014
Father Oda Ray SMITH, b. 28 Feb 1896, Sevier County, Tennesse , d. 15 Sep 1944, Sevier County, Tennesse (Age 48 years) Mother Hester Viola LAFOLLETTE, b. 31 Jul 1896, Sevier County, Tennesse , d. 23 Feb 1940, Sevier County, Tennesse (Age 43 years) Married 28 Sep 1914 TN Family ID F2741 Group Sheet
Family Jesse Truman KERR, b. 3 Apr 1908, Sevier County, Tennesse , d. 1955, Sevier County, Tennesse (Age 46 years) Married 17 Nov 1937 Claiborne County, Tennesse Children 1. Mary Evelyn KERR, b. 6 Jul 1938, Blount County, Tennessee , d. 1 Oct 1961, Blount County, Tennessee (Age 23 years) 2. Howard Truitt KERR 3. William "Bill" KERR Last Modified 17 May 2014 Family ID F2844 Group Sheet
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Notes - The 1920 and 1930 census name Aunt Billie Jean as "Willie Rae" Smith.
Billie's invisible friend (ghost story)
According to cousin Billie Jo Smith-Offut. when aunt Billie was very young 3-4 years old, she would laugh and giggle and play with an invisible friend in the back yard for many hours of their farm in Tennessee. This went on for a long time but no one would see this friend but Billie. At first the family thought that it was a part of her imagination, as she was the first living child of Oda and Viola, until one day they asked Billie the name of her friend.
Billie told them her friend's name was Wanda Rue, at that everyone gasped, as Wanda Rue and Addie Gaynola were two gilrs of Oda and Viola that died in infancy before Billie was born.
- The 1920 and 1930 census name Aunt Billie Jean as "Willie Rae" Smith.