This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whittington Finley Guynes Goyne Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TUWBAIB/656 Message Board Post: After the 1817 death of Chloe Mercer Whittington, wife of John Whittington of Copiah and Amite counties, Mississippi, he married a woman named Mary Finley and moved to Scott County Ms. The following is from a Finley researcher. I am researching Emily Whittington, born about 1824, who was apparently among the children born to John and Mary Finley Whittington in Scott Co., Ms. Emily married Harmon Runnels Guynes. "John Middleton Finley born 17 Dec. 1804, died 21 Sept. 1887, buried Damascus Cemetery, Scott County; married 16 March 1831 in Copiah County to Nancy Guynes, daughter of John and Matilda(Hall) Guynes. The 1830 census of Copiah County indicates that John Middleton Finley may have been living with Henry Hall and Mary Butler Guynes. Family tradition says that John M. Finley came into Choctaw Territory on a hunting trip in the early 1830s and admired the beauty of the land in Sipsy/Harricane Creeks area. After the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was signed and the Indian lands opened for settlement, he returned and purchased several parcels of land in Scott and Leake counties. John and Nancy moved from Copiah County where her mother and his family lived. They had 14 children. After the death of Nancy's brother, James Guynes, and his family moved to the area also. They both died by 1848 and four of his sons lived with the Finleys until they were grown. from "the Sharp Family with Allied Families" Mary Finley, the widow of Nicholas Finley... IN 1816 John Whitington was head of a household in Amite County, MS. Territory. He had married Mrs. Mary Finley by 1820 when that census shows an increase in the number of persons in his household." Tim Hashaw