This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowden, Williams, Roper, Gore Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nFQ.2ACEB/28.43.52.53.62.64.65.66.78.80.81.82.87.94.95.99.3 Message Board Post: I believe your birthplaces may be misleading. I strongly suspect, being a Cowden descendant with Mason cousins in Benton County, Ark., and Cowden cousins in Erath COunty, TX the birthplace needs to be Benton COUNTY, instead of Benton, which is located in an entirely different area of the state. E. Alan Long, son of Sybil Clarissa Cowden-Long, grandson of Thomas Walker "Bob" Cowden, Holiday Island, Arkansas