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

  
  

• 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.