Lemuel Bowers b. 11/15/1806 in TN, d. 01/15/1878 in Pope Co., AR. -----Original Message----- From: Emily <aulicino@hevanet.com> To: bowers@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:06 pm Subject: Re: [BOWERS] Lemuel Bowers Which Lemuel Bowers is this....I desc. from Lemuel, also! Emily If you do not hear from me in a timely manner, just write again...I was buried in email. LOL http://www.rootsweb.com/~orgco2/speaker/EmilyAulicino.html http://genealem-geneticgenealogy.blogspot.com/ Northwest Regional Coordinator and Speaker for ISOGG (www.isogg.org) Administrator for eleven FTDNA DNA Projects ----- Original Message ----- From: <wstaggs189@aol.com> To: <bowers@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:49 AM Subject: [BOWERS] Lemuel Bowers > > Donna Hinson,? That is my Lemuel. Could you send me the rest of the info? > My address is wstaggs189@aol.com > ?Thanks, > > Bill > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Donna (Bowers) Hinson <dhinson@suddenlink.net> > To: BOWERS-L@rootsweb.com; BOWER-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 7:03 pm > Subject: [BOWERS] Bowers Genealogy & the DNA Project > > > > > > > > > > > I was just cleaning up some more ancient emails. One was from back in > 2005 when the Bowers DNA project was just getting started. Terry Barton > mentioned having over 140 members in the Barton surname project. Here > it is 2008, and our Bowers project seems at a standstill with less than > 40 participants. > > Bowers is one of the more common surnames and we seem to have a lot of > stragglers out there we can't connect. In my group in Middle TN, we > have several Bowers groups: James Bowers of Montgomery Co. TN who hails > from Morris Co. NJ, William Pitt Bowers of Davidson Co., TN who was in > Pitt Co., NC at one time. There's Jeremiah Bowers of Wilson Co., TN who > was also in Nash Co., NC and went to KY around 1837. One of his sons > went to MS about that time, as well. Also in Wilson Co., TN are: > James, William, Jesse m. Nancy Mann 1810, GILES who d. 1818, Benjamin b. > 1775 or earlier, and Morris Bowers. > > Who are they? Are all these in middle TN Bowers related? We will > probably never know unless their descendants do a DNA test. > > My Jeremiah had sons who also moved to IL, so you northern Bowers could > be cousins of us southern Bowers. > > I'm sure we must have the same mysteries for Bowers in other states. > With such a common name, we should really have had more than 40 > participates by now. I know the cost is not cheap, but FamilyTree DNA > has a very good price (about $119) through the end of the month right > now for the 37 marker test. > > I bet I have more than $100 worth of paper copies of every Bowers I > could find in NC, TN, KY, and MS in my file cabinet, not to speak of > trips I've made all over the U.S. to research Bowers. I wish DNA had > been around when I started my research. I could have immediately ended > researching the Giles Bowers in Franklin Co. NC for one as well as all > those others I do not match. > > BTW, I do not have any financial interest in FamilyTree DNA. I would > simply like to see us figure out our Bowers connections and the 2005 > email I just deleted from Terry about how many participants triggered > this note. I know many of us are at a brick wall in the 1700's, some at > more recent dates as well. Many records were lost in courthouse fires. > But if we have a male descendant willing to contribute DNA, then we > might solve some of our mysteries. > > My mystery right now is where in VA was Jeremiah born in 1768? Where > should I look for his parents? VA has many counties and many Bowers. > The same sort of mysteries surround Bowers from AR NC, SC and Georgia > and many other states. If we had a larger group of participants, I > think many relationship questions could be resolved, or we would at > least know where to focus our research and might have several cousins > who could help each other research. > > Anyway, you have about 3 more days to take advantage of the special > price so I thought I would throw out a reminder. Check the website below: > > http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/bowers/ > > Donna > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BOWERS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BOWERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.14/1643 - Release Date: 8/30/2008 5:18 PM ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOWERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Thanks...mine was in NJ in 1780s. Thanks, anyway. E ----- Original Message ----- From: <wstaggs189@aol.com> To: <bowers@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [BOWERS] Lemuel Bowers > > Lemuel Bowers b. 11/15/1806 in TN, d. 01/15/1878 in Pope Co., AR. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Emily <aulicino@hevanet.com> > To: bowers@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:06 pm > Subject: Re: [BOWERS] Lemuel Bowers > > > > > > > > > > > Which Lemuel Bowers is this....I desc. from Lemuel, also! > > Emily > If you do not hear from me in a timely manner, just write again...I was > buried in email. LOL > http://www.rootsweb.com/~orgco2/speaker/EmilyAulicino.html > http://genealem-geneticgenealogy.blogspot.com/ > Northwest Regional Coordinator and Speaker for ISOGG (www.isogg.org) > Administrator for eleven FTDNA DNA Projects > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <wstaggs189@aol.com> > To: <bowers@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:49 AM > Subject: [BOWERS] Lemuel Bowers > > >> >> Donna Hinson,? That is my Lemuel. Could you send me the rest of the info? >> My address is wstaggs189@aol.com >> ?Thanks, >> >> Bill >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Donna (Bowers) Hinson <dhinson@suddenlink.net> >> To: BOWERS-L@rootsweb.com; BOWER-L@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 7:03 pm >> Subject: [BOWERS] Bowers Genealogy & the DNA Project >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I was just cleaning up some more ancient emails. One was from back in >> 2005 when the Bowers DNA project was just getting started. Terry Barton >> mentioned having over 140 members in the Barton surname project. Here >> it is 2008, and our Bowers project seems at a standstill with less than >> 40 participants. >> >> Bowers is one of the more common surnames and we seem to have a lot of >> stragglers out there we can't connect. In my group in Middle TN, we >> have several Bowers groups: James Bowers of Montgomery Co. TN who hails >> from Morris Co. NJ, William Pitt Bowers of Davidson Co., TN who was in >> Pitt Co., NC at one time. There's Jeremiah Bowers of Wilson Co., TN who >> was also in Nash Co., NC and went to KY around 1837. One of his sons >> went to MS about that time, as well. Also in Wilson Co., TN are: >> James, William, Jesse m. Nancy Mann 1810, GILES who d. 1818, Benjamin b. >> 1775 or earlier, and Morris Bowers. >> >> Who are they? Are all these in middle TN Bowers related? We will >> probably never know unless their descendants do a DNA test. >> >> My Jeremiah had sons who also moved to IL, so you northern Bowers could >> be cousins of us southern Bowers. >> >> I'm sure we must have the same mysteries for Bowers in other states. >> With such a common name, we should really have had more than 40 >> participates by now. I know the cost is not cheap, but FamilyTree DNA >> has a very good price (about $119) through the end of the month right >> now for the 37 marker test. >> >> I bet I have more than $100 worth of paper copies of every Bowers I >> could find in NC, TN, KY, and MS in my file cabinet, not to speak of >> trips I've made all over the U.S. to research Bowers. I wish DNA had >> been around when I started my research. I could have immediately ended >> researching the Giles Bowers in Franklin Co. NC for one as well as all >> those others I do not match. >> >> BTW, I do not have any financial interest in FamilyTree DNA. I would >> simply like to see us figure out our Bowers connections and the 2005 >> email I just deleted from Terry about how many participants triggered >> this note. I know many of us are at a brick wall in the 1700's, some at >> more recent dates as well. Many records were lost in courthouse fires. >> But if we have a male descendant willing to contribute DNA, then we >> might solve some of our mysteries. >> >> My mystery right now is where in VA was Jeremiah born in 1768? Where >> should I look for his parents? VA has many counties and many Bowers. >> The same sort of mysteries surround Bowers from AR NC, SC and Georgia >> and many other states. If we had a larger group of participants, I >> think many relationship questions could be resolved, or we would at >> least know where to focus our research and might have several cousins >> who could help each other research. >> >> Anyway, you have about 3 more days to take advantage of the special >> price so I thought I would throw out a reminder. Check the website >> below: >> >> http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/bowers/ >> >> Donna >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> BOWERS-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the >> body >> of >> the message >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> BOWERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.14/1643 - Release Date: 8/30/2008 > 5:18 PM > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BOWERS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BOWERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. 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