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/gVB.2ACI/411.2.1 Message Board Post: I am conducting research on the pearce/pierce surname from Johnston County. I have census reports and such. My gggrandmother was a Hinnant who married Freeman Pearce. She then had about 9 children: Hardy, Graddie, Seco, Sefare, Nancy, Martha, and so on. I am not sure if these are the some of the same ones you are talking about. Some relatives are buried in a un-known plot at Pittman Cemetary in Kenly. If you think our "tree branches" are the same. Write back