I just joined the Watauga Mailing List. I have found that most of my mother's family is from the Watauga, North Carolina area. Charlie H. Tester, Sr. son of Nathan Callaway Tester and Cora Lee Hicks married Living Presnell, daugheter of Paul Presnell and Okie Lee Heaton. I am looking for more information on Okie's parents. Their names were John Heaton and Emma Potter. Emma Potter, as told by my grandmother, wife of Charlie Tester, had about 6 husbands. She married first, John Heaton who past away not long after they married. They had one daughter, Okie Lee Heaton on 11 Nov 1894 (she was born in TN). After John Heaton, Emma married his brother, Samuel Heaton, we are not sure if this marriage produced any children. Then she married 3 or 4 men, one being Abraham Lincoln Presnell. Linc as the family calls him was the father of Paul Presnell (his mother was Catherine (Sis) Tester). Emma had more children, they were: Imma Jean Heaton (possible daughter of Samuel Heaton), Ruby, Gentry (grandma says Gentry used to go by Gentry Presnell but he was not Linc's child) and Warren who often went by Warre! n Green and Mamie. Mamie (possible Nickname) went off before the war and the family never heard from here again. Okie Lee Heaton was raised by Emma Potter's parents (unknown at this time). The other children were "shared" between the families. If you have any information or can send me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.