Thank you all for your help. I finally found my ggrandmothers family. :-)

I have done some more checking and now don't believe that the information that I gave to you is correct.
I am very sorry.
Pam Groover

Hi, me again, can you tell me where you found Nelli J. Small as the daughter of Estella? I'd like to look at it again.
Pam

I found it in the 1885 Kansas Census. They were living with a M.J. Ketismiller. She was listed as Ellie Small, age 26 a widow, and Nellie J. Small, age 3. I am assuming they were boarders.

I also found them in the 1900 Census. Estella had remarried. William Helcheth in Kansas. In that census Nellie is 18 and Estella 42. Just a few years later Nellie married my grandfather Robert Carter and started using her middle name Jennie. Which is what I had been looking for until I found the 1920 census where she had gone back to using Nell. I have some pictures somewhere of her as Jennie and Nell both. Will post them as soon as I can find them.

I think you have the correct information. She named her oldest son Robert Columbus Carter. My great uncle. I am going to follow up on the info you gave me. I think you may be correct.

Charlene Broadway-Brown ch_arlieb@yaho0.com