This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DRISKELL / ROWELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SU.2ADI/2382 Message Board Post: I believe Peter DRISKELL may have come from the Brunswick County, VA or Greensville County, VA area and moved to Lowndes County, AL (which is just west of present day Montgomery, AL). He was a neighbor of my gggg-grandfather Howell ROWELL around the mid-1820’s according to land records. Howell ROWELL and his wife, Elizabeth WALTON had moved from Greensville County, VA around 1823 after their son Albert Henry ROWELL was born. They are both buried in Roxanna, Lee County, AL (this area used to be Tallapoosa County, AL). Their grave markers say they came from Greensville County, VA (which is in the area that came from Brunswick County, VA. After the Creek Indian lands became available around 1830, they moved to what is present day Macon County, AL. Antioch United Methodist Church in Macon County, AL was organized as a Methodist Protestant Church sometime in the early 1830’s. The first place of worship was under a “Brush Arbor”. Peter DRISKELL helped found this church. Albert Henry ROWELL grew up and married Tabitha Clementine DRISKELL, who was a daughter of Peter DRISKELL. Later, they moved to what is currently Macon County, AL. They had a son Robert William ROWELL, which is where my line comes from. Albert Henry ROWELL and Tabitha Clementine DRISKELL moved to TX with their younger children and settled around 1865, after the Civil War. They left their grown son Robert William ROWELL in AL. I believe Peter DRISKELL may have moved from the Greensville County, VA or Brunswick County, VA area around the early to mid-1820’s too, because that part of AL did not start becoming populated until after 1814, because it was Creek Indian territory. I suspect they may have moved to the Fort Deposit area of Lowndes County, AL where a lot of early settlers moved for safety against the Creek Indians. The cemetery at Antioch United Methodist Church, which is still an active church, is filled with the same names that earlier appeared in the Greensville County, VA and Brunswick County, VA land records. I believe a lot of families moved to AL around the same time. If you have any information you believe we are connected, or are researching the same family, please contact me at thunderstruck1@comcast.net. I would be happy to share any information I may have.