From Tim Sumrall:

I’m not a genealogist but have been sniffing around the internet looking for information about my Sumrall ancestors and came across this page:

http://www.natchezbelle.org/ahgp-ms/jones/powell1.htm

which indicates that Martha Rushing was a daughter of Samantha Powell and Joel Eli Rushing, and that Samantha was a daughter of John H. Powell and Elizabeth Spears. I began searching for Powell information after reading the information that Shirley provided on that Walters pages that she found Martha and several of her sisters resident with John H. Powell in the 1860 Jones County census (I have not seen those pages). It started me wondering if there was family relationship between Martha and the Powell family. Have you seen this Powell information before? Do you think this could be the Martha Rushing that married first Mr. Walters and second my great-grandfather’s father Jacob Sumrall? I also noted that the first son of Martha and Jacob was named Joel, and the second son (my great grandfather) was named Eli Theodore.

From Ed Payne:

Martha Rushing, as you indicate, was the daughter of Samantha Powell Rushing and the grand-daughter of John Hathorne Powell. She married George Warren Walters around the end of 1860. They had two children before George’s death at Camp Douglas, IL in 1865. One of these was my gr-grandfather, Warren Vinson Walters.

I have done a fair amont of research on Martha, including her second marriage to Jacob Sumrall. Jacob’s lineage is a bit of a puzzle, but there might be an explanation for that. Martha had three children with Jacob before dying in Kaufman Co, TX ca 1875. By 1880 her two children with George Warren Walters had returned to Jones County to live with their grandmother, Sarah Collins Walters Parker.

One interesting tidbit is that Warren Vinson Walters maintained contact with his half sister Magdalene (Maggie) Sumrall Roundtree. She was listed as a surviving sister in his obituary in 1937.