This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Payne, Carter, Willis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FR.2ADI/55.1.1 Message Board Post: Kenyetta, My ggrandparents, Lewis Payne and Malinda Payne lived near Larking and Lelia Willis during the 1870 census for Locustdale, Madison Co. Va. I was told that they lived on the Willis plantation during slavery. They had a son named Robert who married Georgeanna Carter. Maybe she was related to the Carters that you mentioned. My Payne family migrated to Fairfax, Va. sometime before 1880. Etta