This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PETTY ~ BAGLEY ~ BAYLESS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zhB.2ACI/1059 Message Board Post: Some people believe Bethany Bagley married Thornton Petty in New Market, AL, on 12/6/1821 which is the same time and place he married Abigail Bayless, the sister of my gggrand-mother and the latter is recorded in the record book. It's the same day my gggrandmother married so I assume they had a double ceremony. How about George Dillard Petty ~ born in NC in 1797 to a Wm Petty just like Thornton was? Isn't this a good possibility? Didn't Bethany's daughter Sarah D. name a son George D. Sanders b. 1859 and didn't Bethany's son, Wm Mathial, name a son Dillard b. 1856? Bethany's 6 children were born from 1820 - 1829 (starting before her supposed marriage to Thornton). After her death didn't George marry Ruth? who bore him 6 children from 1833 - 1851 and who probably raised Bethany's children? She even named her youngest son George D. Petty. I recall that Bethany's father, Joab, went to court to prove himself guardian of some of his grandchildren, but Bethany's were not listed; that's because their dad and his new wife were raising them. Can some of you descendants in Talley Station area enlarge on this information? During the last couple of years I've exchanged thoughts & info with Bobby Prosser and Lynette Petty Lawrie hoping to prove Abigail's husband wasn't keeping a wife and 6 kids in TN as well as her and 6 kids in north AL! Maybe he'll be vindicated, but I still don't know why she had gone back to her parent's home in 1834 and 35 and Thornton was apparently alive, but not in the picture. When his father's will was probated in 1840, Thornton was one of the heirs. Sylvia Wooten Ross