Four years after losing her spouse in a terrible accident in 2018, Mattie Jackson Selecman announced her engagement to boyfriend Connor Smith on Sunday. After losing her first husband in a horrific accident four years ago, Mattie Jackson Selecman, the daughter of country music icon Alan Jackson, has found love once more.

Mattie, 32, who she first met in late 2021 through a close friend, revealed her engagement to Connor Smith on Sunday.

Smith and Mattie, whom Jackson, 63, shares with his wife Denise, got engaged while visiting Palm Beach, Florida, to honor Smith’s 30th birthday.

Ben Selecman cause of death: What happened to Mattie Jackson’s husband?

Ben Selecman, Alan Jackson’s son-in-law, passed away from severe head injuries he sustained when he collapsed while assisting a woman aboard a boat over two years ago. When the accident occurred, the 28-year-old assistant district attorney had been married to Jackson’s daughter Mattie for about a year. The sad day’s events were recently described by Mattie on the “Jesus Calling” podcast. Ben had his first brain surgery that evening, was placed in a medically induced coma for around twelve days in the intensive care unit, and then had another brain operation. Mattie acknowledges that she had no idea the injury would be fatal.