[email protected] wrote: > > 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 Anne, Not much help, but I have a William and a Peter BAYS who married sisters, Susan and Jane Kilgore of the Kilgore Fort family in the late 1700s. I don't know anything about them, I assume they were brothers. The KILGORE sisters parents were William KILGORE and Jean Porter GREEN. Marlin Aker Jr.