This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Potts, Barker, McBrayer, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/2030.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have some knowledge of the Potts family: I am not sure of the connection between Cynthia Potts who married John D. Barker in Laurens. SC and moved to Potts Camp area after trouble in S.C. sometime after 1835. Cynthia Potts and her husband John D. Barker had four daughters one of which is my ggggrandmother. They show up in several early census records from the Marshall/Tippah county area. At some point John D. Barker disappears and Cynthia Barker ends up with E.F. Potts and his family. Because of the nearness of their birthdays I have assumed that Erasmus and Cynthia were brother and sister. They are all buried in Potts Camp Cemetery. I am sure you all have the listing from the Cemetery Records. Cynthia Potts Barker and two of her daughters Belle or Isabell Barker and Susan Teresa Barker McBrayer are buried there along with some of their children. I also have a good deal of documentation on Erasmus F. Potts. He is listed many times in records of the era before and up to! the Civil War. Apparently he was known for his hospitatlity; his name is mentioned many times by people who stopped by his place for a meal or place to stay on their way to the better traveled routes west from or through Memphis. Please contact to share more. mwitter@houston.rr.com