The family story says that Marietta B. (Belle ?) was named in Marietta, Ohio at the end of the civil war. Her father James Harvey was in a prison camp and her mother Mary walked to Marietta, Ohio with the unnamed child that was born while James was away. The women back in Va. had heard of the terrible treatment of the prisons and set out to see for themselves. When she met with him the war had ended and the prisoners were released and James and some others where sitting on the banks of the Ohio river. James ask what she had named the child and she replied that she hadn't. She told him that she was waiting for him to name her. Thus, the Child was named Marietta.
			Marietta B. Lockhart married Samuel Sheets on Feb 23 1893 in Tazewell. Va.
		On a trip to Tazewell Va. in July of 1999 to find information on the death of James Harvey Lockhart, I found a death notice in the newpaper on May 8, 1918.
			The article reads : J.H. Lockhart , 83 years old, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs Sam Sheets, west of town of February 5 th.