I need help in finding who CYNTHIA BAYS was and who was the BAYS that she married? We have great grandfather George W. R. Bays b. 1842 in Russell County. When he married Emma W. Shepherd in Washington County October 17, 1867, he listed as his parents only Cynthia Bays. In the Russell County 1850 census, we find: Ruth Bays 48, TN. Cynthia 29, VA, George A.(?) 7, James 5, John 3. In 1860 Russell County census, we find: Cynthia Bays 39, (seamstress), George B.(?) 17, James K. P. 14, John T. 13, Edward 9, Ruth Bays 73 TN. Does anyone recognize this family? Whoever the husband was, he must have died before the 1850 census, leaving Cynthia pregnant with Edward 9 by the 1860 census. Please help. I can't get past this wall! Thanks, Anne Hudson Bays