Rebecca Isobel Brown - Belle of Collin County

In 1910  Rebecca Isobel Smith is a farmer living near Price Township in Jefferson County, Oklahoma. She is a widow and five of her sons are living in her home and working the farm. Belle, as she is called, can read and write. 

She was born 25 February 1855 to Samuel Pepper Brown and Mary Russell Brown in Collin County, Texas with the closest post office being in McKinney, Texas.  She was one of eleven children. By the time she was 15 her father had moved the family to Gainesville, Cooke County,  Texas and Belle was attending school. Belle would often visit her aunt Murrel in Illinois Bend, Texas and it was there that she met George Alexander Smith. On 11 December 1879 Belle marries George and their first child, Robert Dresden Smith is born in 1880. 

George has moved Belle and their five sons by 1900 to Indian Territory in what was known as the Chickasaw Nation, Township 3. This territory later became Comanche, Stephens County, Oklahoma. They are farming the land and raising cattle. George dies in 1905 leaving his wife Belle and sons to continue farming in Oklahoma. 

               Belle's 5 sons - Robert, Alvin, Warren, George, and John

Rebecca Isobel Brown Smith passes in June 1919. She is living in Floydada, Texas where 3 of her sons also are living.