who are your Payne and where are they from my husbands Paynes are from Russell count and Tazwell County Virginia thanks Jalena Peck ----- Original Message ----- From: <MusketMaMa@aol.com> To: <TNOVERTO@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 3:42 PM Subject: [TNOVERTO] Researching Taylor/Payne/MacCarrell > Hello everyone... > My name is Robin Taylor, and I've been researching my family tree for > several years now. (Taylor/Payne/MacCarrell are in my paternal line) > Unfortunately, there have been quite a few roadblocks...by way of finding > erroneous > information (lots and lots of that erroneous info came from > Ancestry.com); or > worse yet, none at all. Verifiable information has proven quite hard to > find so far. Following are the facts I can verify to at least a 90% > certainty: > > My grandfather, James Edgar Taylor was born in 1892 in Pickett > County, > TN. His parents were John Wesley Taylor and Nancy Angeline (nee Payne) > Taylor. The information I have suggests both John and Nancy were born in > Overton > County. > Somewhere between 1910 and 1920, James married Lucy MacCarrell. The > spelling of her last name may be incorrect. I haven't been able to find > any > information on her (or any of her family), other than her appearing in > the 1920 > & 1930 censuses with James, as his wife. Lucy is supposed to be from > Overton > County as well, but I haven't been able to find any records to back this > up. > From oral history, Lucy supposedly died young, somewhere in the 1940s. > No > cause for this was given, and no other details were available. I know > they > left TN and moved to SC (Greenville area), the marriage ended, and Lucy > reportedly went back to TN with the children, and died a short time > later. No > details were available. > > These few facts are the only verifiable information I have. I have > viewed several trees on Ancestry.com, and while some information seems to > pertain to my family tree, a lot of it is contradictory. The Taylor > family tree is > fairly well documented, but the Payne tree is very sparse...and the > MacCarrell tree is virtually nonexistent. That's where I'm "roadblocked" > at...I > can't get any farther than my paternal grandmother. No parents, > siblings...nothing. Not even an absolute birth date or location. If > anyone has information > relating to these family trees that they're willing to share, I'd really > appreciate it. Of course, I'm willing to share what information I have > with any > interested parties as well. > > Hopefully, someone will be able to help me solve this long standing > mystery. I can't imagine why there would be no birth record or death > record to > be had. It's almost like she appeared out of nowhere, and vanished the > same > way. I'm hoping that someone on this mailing list will have at least > heard > of the MacCarrells, and will be able to point me in the right direction. > Any > bit of information will be greatly appreciated, no matter how small. > Thanks > in advance for any help. > > Robin Taylor > Fayetteville, NC > > > > **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL > Home. > (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15&ncid=aolhom00030000000001) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNOVERTO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >