This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.arkansas.counties.saline/787.1.1.1.2.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello, When you get a chance, I have a lot of info on Hoyt and his ancestors. Actually, I took my parents to Cedartown, Georgia in October where Hoyt's mother's family lived. They were a pretty interesting group. Hoyt's mother was Mollie Payne Beard HOlbrook Tull. Her mother was Angelina Prior Potts Payne. She was the youngest child of Asa Prior. Asa and Sally Withcer Prior had a large family and five of their children were born deaf (my grandmother Anah Lee had also mentioned this) and Angelina was one of them. Asa Prior was apparently a leading supporter of the Georgia School for the Deaf which is still in existence today. Angelina married Samuel Potts (deaf), and after he died married Thomas Jackson Payne (also deaf) who was Mollie Payne's father. Whew! While in Cedartown we made copies of some information they had on the Prior family. Do you ever see Aunt Dixie? If so, please tell her Jerry's daughter said "hey". Keep up the studies! P.S. What type of Master's degree are you working toward? Lyndee