My mother was Mary Wilson. I have a marriage license showing she was married to Paul Dillard before 1957. I also have Paul's Navy yearbook from his time in the Navy. My mother's mother had them and gave them to me. According to my grandmother, Paul is my father. My mother, Mary, married Paul, went to Pensacola with him, got pregnant, left Florida, came back to Newnan. She divorced Paul, married a man, Jimmy Jones before I was born. My grandmother worked at Woolworth's in Newnan, she said Paul came by the store one day while she was working and asked if Mary had had the baby and if it was a boy or girl. He had a woman with him at the time. My grandmother told him the baby was a girl. HIs statement was that "Jimmy probably would not let him see the baby". I did not know that the man who raised me, up until I was 12, Jimmy and my mother divorced at that time, was not my father. I did not learn of this until I was 16 and my step-father at the time thought it was funny that I did not know. After my mother died, I wrote a letter and mailed it to an address in Ozark to Billy Dillard. He was a witness at the ceremony and his name is on the license. He wrote back and told me that Paul died in 1967, I was 10 at that time. I just wondered if any other family knew about me. I would not want to cause any trouble to anyone. It's just as I get older I wonder, maybe a bucket list thing, I don't know. Jenny Hopkins jjhopkins575862@yahoo.com

