Sometimes it's easy to find a female ancestor, and sometimes not so much.
Anna Belle Robinson Pettey had been a bit tricky to locate, but I found a few things about her. She was the wife of my great uncle Leonard Dewey Pettey.
She appears on the 1920 census as 18 years of age with parents J. S. and Jessie Lynch Robinson along with 3 brothers. She was born 26 Nov 1902 in Jewett, Leon County, Texas. In 1930 the census notes that she was married to Leonard Dewey Pettey and they had a 5-year-old son, Leonard Dewy Jr "Dub" and a nephew, Herbert G Robinson, age 7, living with them.
Dewey Sr. and Anna Belle later divorced and she never remarried.
She was the sole publisher of the Jewett Messenger which she took over after her father's death. She had started helping out with the paper when she was 18 and after taking it over she ran it until her death in 1964.
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