This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowdin/Hunt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nFQ.2ACEB/28.29.34.116.1 Message Board Post: My great grandmother, Anna Hunt married Nathan Putnam Cowdin in 1866, when he came back from serving in the Civil War, in McLean Co., IL. They and Anna's family moved to the "Blue Stem Prairie" in KS in 1866...Irving, KS (not on map now)...near Blue Rapids, Somerset. I have more on them after this, but nothing prior to their marriage on "P.C.", as my great grandmother Anna called him in the 1865 diary she kept.