This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowden, Thomas, Biggs, Lawson, Barber, Flournoy, Marshall, Webb, Fox, Basham Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nFQ.2ACEB/163.4 Message Board Post: David, Walker Cowden and Amy Kerr, parents of Elizabeth Jane Cowden Scaggs, were from the Sevier and Bradley Cos., TN area before they moved to Greene Co., MO., where reportedly Walker died in 1843, and Amy remarried to John Steele. Walker was the brother of Lynn Cowden of Sevier Co., TN., and POSSIBLY the son of Thomas and Cattern Cowden (both born bef 1774) of Spartanburg/Greenville Cos., SC and Williamson Co., TN. Much more research is needed on this family to prove anything...There is family tradition that there is Native American blood in the family - in my own line from Lynn Cowden's second wife, Mary Catherine Thomas, who was supposedly a half-blood Cherokee, daughter or granddaughter of Isaac Thomas and a Cherokee woman...There may be other instances, as the Cowdens were in TN early 1800s, and settled. I have a website called Cowden Connections, where I have Lynn and Walker Cowden, as well as others I think are their siblings, and files on Matthew Cowden, Robert Cowden I and Hannah, his wife, and several other Cowden lines, as well as my Lawson family. If you are interested in joining the site (right now it's free - hopefully forever) please email me and I will invite you to join. If you descend from Walker, then we are cousins...