This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Payne, Powell, McDaniel Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ua.2ADI/191.2 Message Board Post: Hello Deborah: Thank you for considering a possible connection in our mutual search for Payne lines. While there is some slight possibility that we are searching for the same Payne family, I do not find any evidence that our Thomas Payne could have been also named George. In fact, I am almost certain he was Thomas J. Payne. I also have an 1850 census enumeration for him and Louisa with their first child (James), born in McMinn Co TN in 1849. I feel that our Thomas J. Payne (born 1825, TN) would have been too young to have been the likely father of your Cecelia, born 1840. Please keep searching and I will continue to watch for any helpful leads in your interest.