I see you have a Walter Massie Staton. By any chance, do you have a Massie that married into your family? A lot of children were given the surname of a mother or grandmother, and I wonder if one of them was a Massie. Tina > > From: [email protected] > Date: 2006/07/08 Sat PM 08:54:38 EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VAAMHERS] Staton's Falls and Staton's Creek > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Staton > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BAC.2ACE/1389 > > Message Board Post: > > For whom are Staton's Falls and Staton's Creek named? It would seem reasonable that a Staton "discovered" or homesteaded near the falls and creek. Does anyone have any information as to the origin of the name of these sites? > > These falls are located in the vacinity of US 60 and SR 605. This link provides information on the falls and the creek. > www.aria-database.com/.../ fallsmonth/2-00.html > > I know that there were several families of Statons living in Amherst County prior to the Civil War - my wife is a Staton and a direct descendant of these Statons: > John A. Staton, Sr. 1794-1876 > William Wesley Staton 1816-???? > Zachariah D. Staton 1838-1909 > Walter Massie Staton 1887-1965 > Paul Ralph Staton, Sr. 1919-1996 > > Thanks for your asistance in this matter. > > Doug > > P. Douglas Chapman > [email protected] > > > ==== VAAMHERS Mailing List ==== > Have spare time? The USGenWeb Census Project needs you! To volunteer or view transcribed censuses, visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/census/ > >