Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Mary Ann Payton of Arkansas

Mary A. PEYTON, born about 1830, in Tennessee, appears on the 1860 Census of Franklin Township, Sevier County, Arkansas, with her mother Milly PEYTON, age 54, and brothers, Ephraim H. PEYTON 28, and Marcus A. PEYTON 24. Her parents appear on pages 160, 161 of PEYTONs Along the Aquia, where her PEYTON lineage is traced back to the first PEYTONS who came from England and settled on the Northern Neck of the Virginia Colony.

Mary Ann PAYTON of Sevier County, Arkansas married Cyrus BAILEY of Hempstead County, Arkansas on 7 November 1860, in Sevier County, Arkansas. Cyrus BAILEY was a Confederate soldier who served in Arkansas's First (Monroe's) Cavalry.