This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZS.2ADE/286.1.1.1 Message Board Post: don't have any information on the Shelbys themselves, though I do think some Winfields and relation settled in that area of North Carolina. I wonder if the M could stand for Mason ( a family the Winfields intermarried into frequently). The Winfields were generally though not exclusively well to do slave owning families. They also intermarried with Vaughns though that is a fairly common name.