This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/mRXBAIB/956 Message Board Post: Searching for information on Mahaley or Mahala Wooten of Carroll County MS. She was born about 1821 in Tennessee and died after 1860 in Carroll County, MS. She was married first to Minor Shumate. Carroll County, MS. They had three sons: Prentice L., Joseph W., and John E. Shumate. Minor died when Mahala was pregnant with John E. and some some sources say that she went back to Tennessee to give birth to John E. in 1845. If this is the case, she was back in Carroll County in Jan 1846 when she married John M. Clark. John Clark and Mahala are found on the Carroll County Census in the years of 1850 and 1860 with their family which includes the three Shumate boys and children of their own. The Clark children listed on the 1850 children were George W. and William H. There were two females (Ellen and L.Clark) listed also in the 1860 census. Would appreciate any help.