Gayle, I have your Uriah William Payne and Cordelia on my website at the bottom of this mail. They went to Franklin Co. GA before 1860 where I found them on the census there. His family was in Greenville District, SC before that on the census. I have lots on Uriah's ancestors there on my site. They are not my line but for many years, researchers thought that my line and yours were the same line but DNA proves otherwise. Mine settled in Franklin Co. GA in 1784 and yours was in Greenville about the same time. I will check my books for your Hamiltons. Date: 1 Apr 2006 10:34:25 -0700 From: gigish@alltel.net To: SCANDERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Hamilton,Payne This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hamilton, Payne Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hcB.2ACE/2537.1 Message Board Post: I descend from a marriage of William Samuel Payne, b. 1856, m. 1876 to Sara Adalyd Hamilton, b. 1850. Both of these families came from Pendleton Dist., SC. Sara was the dau of Cyrus Earl Hamilton and Elizabeth McWhorter, and William was the son of Uriah William Payne and Cordelia Lee Wood. If this is your family, please let me know. I have not been able to determine parents of Cyrus Earl Hamilton. Gayle Shaw David S. Payne, 1614 Chapman Rd., Anderson, SC, 29621 otime1@yahoo.com : My websites: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=otime , http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/a/y/David-Sheldon-Payne/?Welcome=1095014020 My surnames mostly in Upstate SC/GA, & Western NC: ADDISON, ALLISON, ARENDALL, CANADY, CENTER, CORBIN, COLEMAN, CRAIG, DEAN, FOWLER, HALEY, GORDON, GRAY, HENSON, JAMES, McMILLIAN, McPHERSON, MOODY, NEWTON, PARKER, PATTERSON, PAYNE, POINDEXTER, REDWINE, REED, SWANN, WEST, WHITMIRE --------------------------------- Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.