This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Padgett, Carter and Washington Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ncB.2ACE/1487 Message Board Post: I am looking for the father of Margaret Padgett b. 1848 in Bells. Her mother was Rettie Boatwright and the name given on her 1915 death certificate as her father, is Dewer/Dewey Padgett. She married Mose Washington by whom she had four children. She remarried after Moses' death and had additional children. When she died, she had a considerable amount of property in what is now Ruffin. Her will was witnessed by HD Padgett.