This one's extremely important to many of us, including me! Whoever has these people in Sandi Gorin's post: step up and tell us about your ancestors and how they connect to the Bowles families. FOX and BOWLES families were connected in Virginia. We also have had a Fox connected to the BOWLES and GILLETT families. The following paragraph is from Heather Gillett (eponalady@yahoo.com): At 9:07 PM -0700 9/28/04, Heather wrote: >The second Bowles line is the one I referenced in my email to >the Adair County, Iowa mailing list. Amos Bowles married Julia >Ann Lee in 1879 in Adair County, Iowa. I have that Bowles line >back to the early 1700s. > >Amos Bowles (1852-1913) was the son of Ephraim Bowles >(1829-1914) and Elizabeth Epperson (1830-1904). Ephraim Bowles >was the son of George Fox Bowles (1796-1875) and Elizabeth >Bailey (1798-1870). George Fox Bowles was the son of David >Bowles (1754- after 1830) and Keziah Overman (died 1806). David >Bowles (born 1754) was the son of David Bowles (1701-1777) and >Elizabeth Rhodes (no dates). David Bowles (born 1701) was the >son of David Bowles (died 1711) and Katherine Dickinson >(1679-1722). The other Bowles line that Heather has is solidly connected to my own. Henry SMITH married the three GILLETT sisters in succession; Henry SMITH was the uncle of Elizabeth JEFFRIES who married Benjamin BOWLES. This troop migrated to Texas together. When they got to Brazoria Co., Roswell GILLETT married Benjamin BOWLES' daughter, Martha Smith BOWLES. At Daniel Jeffries' estate sale in Barren Co. in 1808, the following men were listed: BARTON, Jacob BELL, William DALE, Reuben HALL, Absolem HALL, Mahlen HAMILTON, Abner NEVILL, Joseph NEVILL, William SMITH, Benjamin WARDER, Joseph WARDER, Walter I'd like to know how these men, above, are related to the men mentioned below. Where did their ancestors live? And did the men mentioned above stay in Barren County? About the Martins: their history is told in the book, "A Martin Genealogy Tied to the History of Germanna, Virginia," by William A. Martin. In it we find the ancestors and families of Malinda HOLTSCLAW, who married John F. "Jackey" Bowles. This same book lists on page 100, lists the intermarriages of several of the families in Sandi's posting: "...John MARTIN, b. prob. ca. 1755-57; m. 24 Mar. 1778 in Fauquier County, Virginia to Sarah JEFFRIES;...Sarah was the daughter of Joseph JEFFRIES whose will, dated 24 Sept. 1807, and probated on 28 Dec. 1807 in Fauquier County (Fauquier County Will Book 2, page 281) mentions his wife, Margaret, and children: William Henry Enoch Joseph George Daniel [my gggggrandfather who m. Patsy SMITH] Thomas Mary m. KEMPER Sarah m. MARTIN Lydia m. SMITH Lucy m. GIBSON Peggy m. MADUX [or Maddox] Agatha m. SANDERS So you can see very clearly how these families intermarried and portions of them went to Barren Co. Daniel JEFFRIES maternal grandparents were Henry SMITH and Sarah CROSBY of Stafford Co., VA. I think that Charlie Royal (cnroyall@wcc.net) of our list has a CROSBY, GEE, SANDERS and a TONEY in his larger tree. Charlie, can you tell us more about these families? At 3:03 PM -0500 5/6/97, CONNIE L SHEETS (ASWM99A@prodigy.com) wrote: >Benjamin SMITH married Susannah SHIRLEY (who was probably my Moses' sister >or half-sister). > >John F. "Jackey" BOWLES married Melinda HOLTSCLAW. Her mother was probably >Sarah SHIRLEY; Sarah SHIRLEY was probably Susannah SHIRLEY SMITH's sister. > >William NEVILL married Milly HOLTSCLAW, Melinda HOLTSCLAW BOWLES' sister. > >Reuben DALE married a daughter of Edward GILL. Reuben DALE was the son of >Isaac DALE. Six of Isaac DALE's 10 children married SHIRLEYs, including my >3rd great-grandmother Nancy DALE who married Moses SHIRLEY. One of my TONEY correspondents wrote: >Jesse and Alexander TONEY were brothers and first cousins of Charles TONEY >(my ancestor) who married Elizabeth HARRIS. Jesse married Fannie ALFORD and >they had a son John. John had a son named Sequoyah, born 1859, if my >information is correct. > >Charles's (my) line was in Georgia in 1820, but they left pdq - long before >the Trail of Tears. They headed south through Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas. Freda Noble (tnoble@mcn.org) of our list has a WILBURN and a POOL. There's a very large book entitled, "The Maxey's of Virgina," by Edythe Maxey Clark. On page 513, Philip MAXEY is given the number 754 (1777-1820). "Philip Maxey, born 17 December 1777 in the newly-formed county of Powhatan, Virginia, was a son of the Rev. Edward Maxey and Mary Bondurant. He was only four years old when his father died and he was reared by his mother on their plantation in Powhatan until Mary remarried in 1794 to widower Nathan Ayers of Buckingham County, Virginia. Philip's name appears in District A of the 1797 personal property tax books of Buckingham County, and from 1796 through 1799 his name was found on the land tax records of Powhatan County with the 175 acres left to him by his uncle Nathaniel. Four days after his 21st birthday, Philip sold his land on the waters of Jones Creek---adjoining the properties of Ephraim Maxey, John Smith, Bennett Maxey, David Flournoy and Peter Dupuy---to his older brother Ephraim. Philip was in the tax records of Jessamine County, Kentucky, in the year 1799 and remained on their lists through 1805, with the exception of 1801. That was the year he returned to Buckingham County to marry his stepsister Elizabeth Hales Ayers (born 26 February 1784, Buckingham County, Virginia), the daughter of Nathan and Mary (Leake) Ayers, on 20 October 1801. Philip and his bride settled in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1806---in Bear Wallow, 12 miles north of Glascow, [sic] located on the present border of Hart and Barren River. He had patented 165 acres jointly with Ephraim by survey dated 14 April 1807, and this land was divided on 17 February 1817 when Ephraim sold to Philip 135 acres on the west side of Elk Lick for $20 and Philip sold 30 acres to Ephraim for the same sum. Philip also had patent land on Pawpaw Grove surveyed 13 December 1815 amounting to 150 acres." Benjamin BOWLES' daughter, Sarah, married Elijah MAXEY in Brazoria Co., TX in 1833. When she died, he took their two children back to Memphis, TN, to be reared by his sisters. Benjamin's granddaughter married into the DELL family of Florida. In that tree are several MAXEYs, including a Bennett Maxey DELL. Can anyone else add to what I've written here? Or to what Sandi posted, below? In anticipation, Linne X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:07:22 -0600 From: Sandi Gorin <sgorin@glasgow-ky.com> To: SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: BARREN CO - ORDER BOOK 4 - AUG 1818 CONCLUSION Wm INNIS allowed to keep a tavern at his house in the county; bond with David GARVIN. John FOX made motion that Wm BOWLES, John WARDER, Alexr EVANS, Joseph NEVIL, Sammuel MADDOX (any 3) appraise estate of Wm SMITH, decd. Road report of Flippin road from near Wm FISHER's to Pikesville. Dennis COCHRAN appt Surveyor of state road from Glasto to the east end of Jno McFERRAN's lane. James D SMITH resigned as Constable. James MARTIN appt Constable in his place; bond with Samuel MARTIN & Thomas AKERS. James BARTON appt Surveyor of Flippin road from the double branches to Pikesville. Matthew BURD made motion that Robert U? BURD, Wm COOK & Wm DALE do view for a road from Woodsonville to the Blue Spring Meeting House. $450 allotted at the Oct term for the support and benefit of the guard who should attend to guard John HAMILTON from the court time to the conviction is to be assigned by the Sheriff unto the hands of Charles HARVEY, James FORBIS, John GRINSTEAD for the benefit of George T WOOD and Samuel BELL who attended the guard. (Note: this is the first recorded murder trial wherein John HAMILTON was charged and hung, later found innocent.) Summons to issue vs Wm ROGERS, Thos ROWSEY, John ROWSEY, James FOSTER, Wm GREEN, Jesse TONEY & Saml SANDERS to appear in Oct to see why they should not be fined treble fines for not listing their taxable property with Joshua WILBORN, Commissioner of the Tax. Summons to issue vs Wm ROBINSON to shew cause why his son David shall not be bound out. SImeon BUFORD's list of taxable property for 1818 returned. Peter BEAN's stock mark recorded. In the back of the book is a list of Magistrates now in the Commonwealth July 19, 1815: Archer CRADDOCK (marked out) WIlliam RENICK (marked out) John POOL Hardin DAVIS Sam'l MARRS (resigned) Joshua CRUMP Ach'd SLOAN Thos WINN Len'd H MAURY John GLOVER Will'm T BUSH Benj'm BUSTER (moved away) Sylvester HALL (moved away) Landman SHORT Henry SIMPSON Rich MUNFORD James BIRD Isham HARDY Alex'r ADAIR (resigned) John S GEE John RODES Benja J McCALL (Hart Co) Philip MAXEY End of series. Next week will begin a new series. Sandi Colonel Sandi Gorin SCKY Links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html Gorin Publishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ ______________________________