This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bratton, Bowdle Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FdF.2ACEB/323 Message Board Post: Luther Bratton [1834-1903] married Ursulla Bowdle [1836-1917] about 1860. They had nine children. There is a family story that my Grandfather James F. Bowdle of Ross County, Ohio, went to the World's Fair [Columbian Exposition] in Chicago in the fall of 1893. There is a posibility that he and the rest [??] of his party stopped in Kankee, IL to visit their cousins. Can any descendents of the Bratton-Bowdle family confirm this story?