This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kIZ.2ACEB/199.365.367.368.370.373.375.1 Message Board Post: You give no dates so you may be referring to an era later than I research. The Goads, Haywoods and Fitzgeralds were mixed up ca 1850-1880 and perhaps later. William J. Goad married Mathena Haywood in 1870. Maria was her sister. Robert Goad, Jr. married Cynthia Fitzgerald when he was a widower and quite elderly. Henry T. Hoad married Regina or Roena Goad in 1877. They had a son Albert in 1880. Roena was an apparent widow in 1900 living with Nellie B. Martin,likely a daughter., widow of John E. Martin (or dvorced) so here is a Nellie Goad. Roena might have been called "Rosie". You use nick-nasmes like Nellie and Rosie.Nellie was usually for Eleanor and Rosie could be for Roena above. (I think it was Roena instead of Regina). By 1900, the Goads in Maury had dwindled to a relative few compared to 1850-1860. In ca 1990, there were but three in the Columbia phone book which encompassed rural areas also. That's about all I have in my files. I can go back farher on Henry and Wlliam T. Goad if there is a connection but I do not research Haywoods as such./ --- Ken