This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HAYS/HAYES/HASE/HAISE/HAYSE,HAZE, HAYZE, ETC. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xih.2ACEB/1636.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Jerica, I've not been able to locate your LEWIS HAYS and MARY A. MAGDALENE STOKES (HAYS); however, their daughter MARY LEWIS HAYS, b. 1852, was apparently tragically widowed at a young age. As you noted, Mary married GREENBERRY A. DUNCAN, b. TN, 1846, in FLORENCE, LAUDERDALE CO., AL, in 1872. Greenberry, son of Jonathan Duncan (1798, KY) and Elizabeth, (1802, SC), was one of 12 children, including a twin. In 1850 and 1860 this family is found in Henry Co., TN and Marion Co., AL.("Jonathan Duncan" on Familysearch.org will bring up this family.) The following is from a posting on the Genforum Lauderdale AL Message Board, by Rena Duncan, on 13 June 2002: "Looking for any information on the killing of Greenberry Duncan near Florence in 1876. Greenberry worked at a gristmill in the area. The story is told that he was killed by a man named Vaughn in a dispute over a debt or land." "Greenberry married Mary Lewis Hays (Hayes) at Florence in January 1872. Greenberry was the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Duncan and had a twin named Thomas J. (Jefferson?). They had three children, twins ROBERT NELSON DUNCAN & BENJAMIN McGAHEY DUNCAN and a daughter, MARY ABNER ELIZABETH DUNCAN. The children were 3 and 1 yr. old when Greenberry was killed. Mary and the children lived close to her brothers after Greenberry's death. They all moved in fear of another killing involving the Vaughns." Does anyone in the Florence area know of this tory and family or is there someone that could check records or papers in the area for information?" There were a few responses to this posting, mostly concerning research possibilites. But you might try contacting Rena Duncan and posting on the various boards to try to find out what happened. Good luck, Barbara