This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: owsley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADI/539.2 Message Board Post: You have probably already found out about L. David Owsley. He was a brother to my great-grandfather, Lawrence Monroe Owsley. They were sons of William Jefferson Owsley and Susan Holley Owsley. William Jefferson and his brother Levi were killed at the Battle of Knoxville. Susan remarried a man named Johnston and the family moved to Arkansas and had lots more children. The men named Owsley could not wait to get back to Alabama but their sister Laura Owsley remained in Arkansas. Lawrence settled in Wetumpka, taught school, married a woman named Annie Scott McGehee. Eventually they farmed and lived at Claude. Lawrence died 17 July 1931. I remember hearing my father talk about Uncle Dave. When I was a graduate student at the Univ of Ala back in the '50s the drum major was named Bill Owsley who was I believe a great-grandson of David Owsley. Bill now lives in Anniston, Al. I have more on the Owsleys if you need it.