This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HATAWAY, HATTAWAY, GANUS, CARPENTER, NELSON, RUSHING, PETTIT Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QU.2ADI/1086.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Larry, we are DEFINITELY the same family lineage. Your Robert appears to be the brother of my great grandfather George Washington HATTAWAY. What's been causing all the confusion was the descrepancies in Robert's middle initial and also, the descrepancies of 2 years in age on between the 1860, 1870 census takers or info given. Firstly, Robert was born in the came Pike County; his parents would have been James E. Hattaway and Rebecca Ann Floyd d/o of Theophilus Floyd and Elizabeth Stevens. Rebecca's brother Evan M FLOYD is your chart too. " vii. Rebecca Ann Shirley was born OCT 1837 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and died 10 JAN 1887 in Willow Springs, Henderson County, Texas. She married Evan M Floyd 8 JAN 1856 in Pike County, Alabama. He was born 1837. " Therefore it's easy to know that this is definitely the same family, cuz! And therefore, I now know that Martha Kea/Key that married Robert ? HATTAWAY is the one and same brother of George Washington HATTAWAY and his other siblings and definitely the son of James E. Hattaway and Rebecca Ann Floyd! Please email me direct and I will give you more info if you want it. Also, do you want to join the Hattaway rootsweb email list so that we can communicate easier? Digest mode only comes once a day every 18 hours if you perfer. Please email me at shoops@centurytel.net Tiffany