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/nFQ.2ACEB/194.1.1.1 Message Board Post: You're welcome. I am not provably related to that line of Polk County Cowdens, but I am related to one of the other lines there, that of brothers Rives Carter Cowden and William O. H. P. Cowden. My ancestor is George Alexander Cowden of Illinois. I am trying to sort out to whom in Greene, Polk, and Dallas counties I am relatively closely related and those to whom I am more distantly related.