This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DMQ.2ACIB/145.151.153.154.155.157.590.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Cindy, Did you check the "Seaborn" Surname families that moved from North Carolina to Tennessee & Kentucky in the late 1700s/early 1800s. They were on the move from VA to NC to SC/TN/KY at the same time the Cowans were moving to the Knoxville/Grainger Co. Area from SW VA. Some of them are recorded in Censuses for Knox, Grainger, Bledsoe, Marion and western TN Counties. There was one Seaborn family in the 1850 Marion Co. Census at the same time as your Samuel Cowan. There are "Seaborn" given names for sons of other Surnamed families in these counties also about this time. Good luck, Don Ashburn