This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crowell, Hawkins, Boothe, Moseley, McKeethen/McKiethen, Tarkington Young, Johnson, Peterson, Foaud, Miller, Mask, Winfield, Parish Parrish, Spurlock, Flagg, Sykes, Randle, Ball, Williams, Blair, Jamison, Norris, White, Stinson, Dowling, Homer, Methune Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADE/730 Message Board Post: My name is Donna E Crowell-Greene. I live in Michigan. I am looking for any close or distant relatives, especially in the Alabama and North & South Carolina states, which might be ancestors of Priscilla and James/Jim Hawkins. Priscilla was from Alabama, and Jim was from North Carolina. Priscilla and Jim lived in the Aliceville, Pickens County, AL, area with their children: Mose Hawkins, who had Collier, will, Jimmie and Lutchin; Will Hawkins who had Cassie,Frank and Minnie; Wesley Hawkins, whose marital is unknown, and Vine/Vina Hawkins-Crowell, who married James (Jim) Edward Crowell, son of white John Crowell from Ireland, and his slave Emily "Crowell". James was born in Alabama, until John Crowell moved the families to West Point, Clay County, MS, in about 1852. I say families, because John was lawfully married to his white wife Judith Stinson-Crowell from Fauquier County, VA, and they had 8 children. It is shown on the 1870 census records that Emily had a 5 year-old daughter named Mima Crowell. Emily is said to have had another daughter, whose name is unknown, and that both daughters, because of the whiteness of their complexions and their red hair, passed for and married white. Emily's son James/Jim was classified as a slave until 1865, when slavery was allegedly abolished. James would have been about 20 in 1865. He was born 1845. James and Vina are listed on the census as having had 12 children: 9 boys and 3 girls. Some of the 12 names are: William (F)/Willile (F), Harrison, Tan, R.C., James Frank, Robert, twin boys Halbert and Albert, Johnnie; Fannie and Fannie Pinky/Fannie Pinkie. The 3rd girls name is unknown. James and Vina's son Willie married, but it is unknown who he married at this time. Marriage and census records are being checked. Willie Crowell and his wife had Cassie, Frank, and Minnie. Frank Crowell married a Louisiana or Louisa Hall, and theu had Frank Jr. and Dwight. John Crowell came to American during Ireland's "Great Potato Famine between 1846 and 1851. It is believed he brought family members with him named: Judah, Michael W, Mary, John. It appears that Emily was not John's only slave family that he kept. The census shows a Mary "Crowell" from South Carolina in the 1870 census of Lowndes County, West Point, MS, as being age 36 with no eligible male of comparable age living with her and children: Mathew Crowell age 8 born in Miss, Louisa Crowell age 6 born in Alabama, Oogie Crowell age 2 male born in Miss, and Alabama Crowell age 14 and domestic, female, born in Miss. All children were given the last name of Crowell. And Mary and Emily, both listed as being "black" and "mullatto", lived either in the house located next door to John Crowell of Ireland, or in the vicinity of his house. I noticed on the census records, where the column required a check mark if the "head of household" was married, divorced, single or widowed, it almost always said the "black or mulatto" female was widowed, and in a house full of children, born in different states. So this lets me know that these were most likely slave put with these adult women, and adopted by them and the master. Or, in Emily's case, with her son James Edward Crowell, my gr-gdfather Halbert Crowell, born Aug. 1880 and died 1973, personally knew his father's father John Crowell. James appears to be white in the photo I have, but is a mullatto. Anyone related to these individuals and willing to share information, please contact: Donna Crowell-Greene at degreene@ameritech.net, 248/357-1005 anytime. I need assistance in finding relatives to help organize a "Crowell FamilyReunion" in 2003. This is a tremendously large family that has drifted and gone in different directions. Please help locate it. James and Vina Crowell, alone, had 12 children, and they had children. I am 1 of 8 children to my father Halbert Crowell. So you see? This is a very large family Thank you for your help in advance.