List Members, Please contact me again, if we have corresponded in the past about BOWLES/BOOLES/BOLES (various other spellings) or any other families in Wilkes, Oglethorpe, Greene and Taliaferro County, Georgia. I had a computer hard drive crash on a fairly new hard drive still under warranty the last of September. I may have lost your e-mail address and other contact information and some of the information you sent me if I had not printed it out on paper. Lesson learned!!! If it is important, print out a paper copy and keep up my paper files which I had not been doing. Don't use the inbox for a filing cabinet!!! Fortunately, I had the main body of information I had typed into my computer genealogy program as of July on a flash drive where my son had loaded that on to a lap top computer for me to take a trip in August. What I did lose was folders and backed up e-mail and a few things that I had written up over the years. If I did not print out our e-mail correspondence, I have lost your e-mail addresses. I have never been able to determine any relationship between my John Booles/Bowles, Sr. who lived on the south fork of the Little River east of Woodville around Temperance Bell Crossroads and Jesse Boles who lived on White Creek and William Booles/Bools, Rev. Sol who lived west of Penfield. All of this area was at one time on the very western edge of Wilkes County before c. 1793 when new counties were formed from Wilkes. Jesse Boles/Booles/Boles died with a will naming his children in Oglethorpe County and his descendants fell into Taliaferro County when it was formed c. 1826-1827. I don't recall ever finding a living descendant of this family. William Booles Rev. Sol died with a will naming his children in Greene County in 1817. Even though his wife's pension application was rejected, it contains extensive family information. John Booles, Sr. died in late 1823 in Greene County. There is an estate administration naming his children. Where I run into trouble is on the next generation of their grandchildren and sorting out who belonged to my John's family and who belonged to the other two families. The John's, Jesse's, William's and Benjamin's and Mary's and Elizabeth's etc. are quite confusing! Which record belongs to which person??? Who was the father of Jesse B. Bowles on the Greene County census? I think he probably belonged to Jesse's descendants out of Taliaferro County, but I am not entirely sure of that relationship. I have assigned William Booles/Bowles who married Jincey Wade in 1805 in Greene County as a son of my John, Sr. There was a William Bowles who owed on a note in John, Sr.'s estate and received items from the estate. So this William Bowles was still alive and presumed in Greene County about 1830. Neither Jesse of Oglethorpe County nor William, Rev. Soldier named a son William in their wills. Does anyone have a list of this William's (m. 1805) children and what happened to them? Who was the father of William P./T. Bowles who married Martha E. Williams 14 November 1837 in Greene County, Georgia. I think he might have been a grandson of William, Rev. Soldier because he lived in the Penfield area or at least west and south of there. I found where he bought land, but not where he sold it. Which son was his father??? Or was he a grandson of my John, Sr. Martha E. Williams Bowles was the daughter of Mildred(Millie) _?_ m. Williams and then married Daniel Duncan in 1844 in Greene County. This family migrated to Chattooga County, Georgia. I think there is probably/maybe a connection to the family of Morgan Williams in Oglethorpe County. There was also a Benjamin Boles in Chattooga County up in northwest Georgia who seems to match the Benjamin Boles who married Hannah Reid in Oglethorpe County in 1851. To which family did he belong??? There were also several marriages between Booles and Bennetts which further confuses the issues of who was who. I also have a new e-mail address though the old one still works. vtoole at myinu.net My ISP is changing domain names. If we have not corresponded in several years, I also have a new mailing address due to the change over from Rural Routes to 911 addressing. My Bowles/Booles connection is a double lineage from John Calvin Durham (#1) married Sarah(Sally-Sallie) S.(Selina?) Bowles in Greene County, Georgia, November 17 1831 in Greene County, Georgia. She was the daughter of Jackson Booles/Bowles and Betsy Lindsey, the granddaughter of John Booles, Sr. and Elizabeth _?_ and Jeremiah Lindsey, Jr. Vivian Cates, S H 21 W, Alto, Texas 75925 1-936-858-3801 http://www.myinu.net/vcates