This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parker, Middleton, Chastain, Autry, Stone, Renfroe Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UeB.2ACI/1671.1845.1848.2 Message Board Post: Dear Mrs. Talab, I am sorry but I do not think I can help you there. From the information that I have Mary Bates was gone by 1810, prob real young and due to child birth. Joel Thomas and his sister Sarah Shelton Chastain were close in birth and she stated that she and Edward Chastain were marr at the home of her parents Joel and Lydia Shelton on the banks of the Tuckaseegee R." On the 1850 GA Murray Co census Joel & Mary "Polly" Shelton's children are named minus Margaret (Peggy) my gr-gr who married Jasper Stone in Dalton GA records in 1848. IF they had a child named John he had marr or moved by then. The only John I've ever seen was in the will of David Shelton where Wm. Shelton, father of Joel is mentioned.