This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Johnson, Mayes, McCrystill, Vardiman, Carpenter, Martin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gBB.2ACI/787.662.2.1.1 Message Board Post: I am wondering if this family might be connected through marriage to a great aunt. William Frank Mayes was married to Nancy Ellen Johnson October, 1882 in Willisburg, Kentucky. She was daughter of John and Diana (Saunders) Johnson. I don't know his date of birth, but he died January 4, 1941 in Blue Mound, Illinois. She was born in Kentucky, believed to be Mercer County April 22, 1863 and died September 1, 1950. They had two daughters - Eva Mayes who married a Younger, and Effie who married Ernest Osborne. Then, in addition to that I have two letters that were written to my Mother - from Margaret Mayes, who lived Hamilton Hall, Lexington, Kentucky, probably Transylvania College in 1933. This would have been a cousin to my Mother, whose Mother was Martha Belle (Johnson) Carpenter. In her letter she talks about a Miss Nora, Hugh, someone she calls Ba. In the other letter she talks about Mother, Dad and Donald. She also talks about her Mother's cousin Ethel Johnson Martin who married Walter V. Martin and had two children - Cora V, and a son. If anyone can relate to any of this, I sure would appreciate hearing from you.