This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Willingham/Langford/Stuart/Johnson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Dd.2ADI/1034.3 Message Board Post: see also my response on Fallens. According to the "Langford Letter" written around a hundred years ago, "Edmund Langford married Miss Joyce Willingham. She was an orphan girl with several brothers and one sister. The sister married Grandpa (Edmund) Langford's youngest brother, Robert (Langford). He was cousin Lissie Johnson's great grandfather and his wife, Aunt Sallie (Sarah Willingham) was my grandmother's (Joyce Willingham Langford) only sister. They were born and raised in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Grandpa (Edmund Langford) married her there (Oglethorpe County) and he was born in the state of Virginia. So was Granpa Stuart. (Hugh Blair Stuart)" I don't know if this helps any with your Martha Ann, but I have a feeling that with the Langford and Willingham connection, that this is the same family - or group of families. Oglethorpe County is the place to look pre-Upson; but there appear to have been more than one Willingham family there at that time and I was unable to sort them out. One of these Willingham families, as I understand, made quite a name for themselves in Upson. I have heard they chased out the Indians. Is that right? I believe there is still a place called Willingham Springs in the western portion of the county.