----- Original Message ----- From: "Terri Lee Wolfe" <[email protected]> > >Margaret Carroll and second, Catherine Gaster. > > Carolyn, is this Gaster descended from the sister of Reece Bowden, the > brother-in-law of Stephen Gaster, two of the first white sttlers in Drew > Co.? Beth, Catherine Gaster married a man who was the son of my great great grandfather's brother, so I am no kin to the Bowdens. Catherine was the daughter of Stephen Gaster and Martha Bowden and the second wife of John A. Owens.