Looking for information on William Butcher and Mary Holyfield, who left Surry County for Polk County, Missouri somewhere between 1850 and 1860. Mary appears to be the daughter of Watson Holyfield; her brother Lewis V. Holyfield seems to have gone to Polk County at the same time. Interested in learning more about the Holyfields. Also interested in anyone having any information on their marriage; I've never been able to find a marriage record for William and Mary. It should be somewhere around 1835, and they should have been in Surry County at the time, but it's not in the Marriages of Surry County book. William b 4 May 1818 in Surry Co., d. 24 Nov 1888 Polk Co., MO; son of James Butcher and Elizabeth Freeman. Mary b 3 May 1822 and d. somewhere between 1900-1910 censuses, Polk Co., MO; daughter of Watson Holyfield and Margaret Venable. (I've seen Mary's tombstone, it simply has no dates on it.) --pig