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Subject: My Haywood Connections
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:27:28 -0500


This is research that I am doing for my future mother in law, and to tell you the truth, I've been doing genealogy for nearly 20 years now and have NEVER run into the problems that I have with these families.

Generation No. 1



1. Ray Arthur Parker, Sr., born Jun 06, 1887 in Haywood County, North Carolina; died Oct 25, 1969 in Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina. He was the son of 3. Mattie McFee. He married (1) Mattie Faye Payne 1907. She was born Dec 26, 1890 in Haywood County, North Carolina, and died Sep 22, 1956 in Haywood County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of James Thomas Payne and Nettie Fay Penland.



Notes for Ray Arthur Parker, Sr.:

Supposedly the illegitimate son of Mattie McFee.



Name: Ray Parker

SSN: 239-22-XXXX

Last Residence: 28716 Canton, Haywood, North Carolina, United States of America

Born: 7 Jun 1888

Died: Oct 1969

State (Year) SSN issued: North Carolina (Before 1951)



Source Information:

Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005.



More About Ray Arthur Parker, Sr.:

Burial: Old Bon-A-Venture Cemetery, Haywood County, NC

Occupation: 1930, Haywood County, NC; Occupation: Barber

Residence: 1920, Waynesville, Haywood, North Carolina



More About Mattie Faye Payne:

Burial: Old Bon-A-Venture Cemetery, Haywood County, NC

Residence: 1920, Waynesville, Haywood, North Carolina



More About Ray Parker and Mattie Payne:

Marriage: 1907



Generation No. 2



3. Mattie McFee, born 1875 in North Carolina.



Child of Mattie McFee is:

1 i. Ray Arthur Parker, Sr., born Jun 06, 1887 in Haywood County, North Carolina; died Oct 25, 1969 in Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina; married Mattie Faye Payne 1907.



Family lore has it that Mattie MCFEE gave birth to another child 3 years before she married PARLEY RICHMOND HEMPHILL who adopted the younger child (JAMES HOWARD HEMPHILL), but did not adopt RAY ARTHUR PARKER. It is also been mentioned that the Hemphill child and the Parker child are full-blooded brothers. Also, family lore has it that these families were either partially or full blooded Cherokee Indian.



Nest Family:



Generation No. 1



1. Mattie Faye Payne, born Dec 26, 1890 in Haywood County, North Carolina; died Sep 22, 1956 in Haywood County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of 2. James Thomas Payne and 3. Nettie Fay Penland. She married (1) Ray Arthur Parker, Sr. 1907. He was born Jun 06, 1887 in Haywood County, North Carolina, and died Oct 25, 1969 in Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina. He was the son of Mattie McFee.



More about Mattie Faye Payne:

Burial: Old Bon-A-Venture Cemetery, Haywood County, NC

Residence: 1920, Waynesville, Haywood, North Carolina





Generation No. 2



2. James Thomas Payne, born Abt. 1858 in Cherokee County, North Carolina; died May 1934 in Buncombe County, North Carolina. He married 3. Nettie Fay Penland.

3. Nettie Fay Penland, born Abt. 1858 in North Carolina; died in Buncombe County, North Carolina.



More about James Thomas Payne:

Burial: Section Seven @ Green Hill Cemetery, Haywood County, NC



More about Nettie Fay Penland:

Residence: 1860, Not Stated, Buncombe, North Carolina



Children of James Payne and Nettie Penland are:

i. Hester Payne, born Abt. 1884 in North Carolina.

1 ii. Mattie Faye Payne, born Dec 26, 1890 in Haywood County, North Carolina; died Sep 22, 1956 in Haywood County, North Carolina; married Ray Arthur Parker, Sr. 1907.

iii. Lloyd Franklin Payne, born Nov 26, 1895 in Clyde, Haywood County, North Carolina; died Bet. 1948 - 1949.



More about Lloyd Franklin Payne:

Other-Begin: Haywood County

Residence: Lake Junaluska, Haywood, North Carolina



iv. Hattie Payne, born Abt. 1898 in North Carolina.



Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. MIL and I are planning a trip to Haywood County, NC in the spring so we don't take the chances of hitting a snow-storm while we are there, but I would like to have more information than what I have before the trip is made.

Deb McKay
Knoxville, TN

When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied "I'm not sure." "Look in your underwear, Grandma," he advised."Mine says I'm four."

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