This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Madden, Pitts, Finley, Crout Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YeB.2ACI/275 Message Board Post: Looking for African-American descendants, all from Laurens county, surnames Madden, Pitt, Finley and Crout. The Pitts, Finley and Crouts lived in Laurens and the Maddens lived in Waterloo. They are there in the 1870 census, began to migrate to Arkansa in the mid 1880's.