My great-grandmother is lited on the 1850 Census in Walker County, GA as Martha Chesterton/Chesterson. She is at that point living with her grandfather and grandmother, Talifero Butler. She was born in May 1838, some places list her as being born in Tennessee and others Alabama. If you have any information it would be greatly appreciated. Evidently her mother died before she was 12 and she went to live with her maternal grandparents. I find nothing about her father. Her uncle adopted her and she became known as Martha Butler after that. Only in the 1850 census did we find her true last name.